IEEE GOLD – Undergraduates Category

Basic Rules

• Team Formation: Participants should form teams of minimum of 2.
• Sponsorship Details:
      o Having a sponsor is a must to continue in the competition phases.
      o Sponsors Can be:
             Industry Entities.
             Private business companies.
             Governmental Organizations.
      o Sponsor should provide the teams with (one or more):
             Technical Support needed to develop their project.
             Financial Support.
             Managerial Support.

Competition Schedule:

The MIE competition starts in August 2009 where teams will pass through phases starting by a summer training camp and
ending with the competition finals in August 2010.

The competition phases are as follows:

Teams can apply to join MIE at 2 different times and each time has its requirements.

Students from each team should go to the registration page and fill and submit the competition application form.

Competition Application Form consists of:
    • Team Members Information.
    • HR Application.
    • Supervisor Information (If available).
    • Project Abstract (If available).

The MIE Committee will select the teams who will continue in the competition phases based on the info included in the
application form.

MIE competition will select 200 teams form this admission point based on the info in the application form, these teams
will have some exclusive privileges and support from MIE, represented in:
    o Direct team coordination from MIE.
    o Support for sponsorship.
    o Support to get needed development tools.
    o Summer Training.
    o Midyear Training.

Teams that will apply after “Admission Point 1” will not be rejected as they have another chance of joining MIE thoough
“Admission point 2”.
    • Starts right after we announce the accepted teams from Admission Point 1.
     Ends on the 1st of March.

Teams that will join MIE in “Admission point 2”point will not have the previlages previously listed for teams joining in
“Admission point 1”. But they will have online support through the MIE official forum.
    • Teams that will apply within this timeframe will:
        o Get a CD containing the MIE training materials.
        o Be e-mailed with a package containing the MIE forms, reports and documents they will use throughout the year.
        o Have online support through the MIE forum.
    • These teams will NOT have exclusive privileges and support from MIE, represented in:
        o Direct team coordination from MIE.
        o Support for sponsorship.
        o Support for getting needed development tools.
        o Summer Training.
        o Midyear Training.

The selected teams will attended a summer training camp in Cairo with accommodation support.

The training will include softskills, business skilss and technical training. The training represents an orientation phase for
teams to help in enhancing their entrepreneurial skills to take their innovations into market.

The training topics are:

Teams should study the market and make a market research with the target of having a project idea that satisfies real need, put
an initial technical design and get a sponsor for this idea. At the end of this phase every team must have a sponsor and apply
a full proposal containing project details, company information and sponsorship deal to continue to next MIE phases.

You have 2 scenarios to get a sponsor for your project; either to contact sponsors on your own or send to one or more of the
companies in contact with MIE. In both cases, the sponsor should send to MIE sponsorship confirmation email with the final
proposal attached.

In this training there will be seminars to attend with topics suitable to this stage

There will be also an evaluation meeting at the same time as:
    o Teams will present their projects, the progress they have achieved, problems that they overcame and problems that still
       exist to the committee and to other teams.
    o You will be evaluated by the committee and get advised for the problems either in the team management or in the
       project progress.

Both applicants from “Admission point 1” and “Admission point 2” should submit
    1. Project Proposal
        
a. Project Info Form: It shows the project technical and business aspects in brief.
        
b. 1st MIE Report: This is mainly concentrating on the market research phase. It represents a very informative and useful

            
source for you during this period. It’s very important to read the Product Design and Development Book and apply it
            
practically in your research. This report will guide you through the book and will be very supportive for you through
            
this phase. You should start working on this report during the market research phase to make best use of it.
            
Don’t postpone it till last days.
    2. Sponsorship Deal
        
a. Sponsor Info Form: It shows sponsor company information. This is to be filled by the sponsor.
        
b. IUL form: It helps in shaping the relation between the team and the sponsor by defining the sponsorship deal.
            
It also shows some general terms for the sponsorship deal. The IUL Form should be filled and accepted by all the 3

            
involved parties, Supervisor, Sponsor and the Team. To make it easy for the sponsor and the supervisor, it’s highly
            
recommended that you fill it first then review it with them till both of them accept it. Make sure that you add all
            
required contacts correctly.

The filtration will be based on the final proposal. It’ll cover these main points:
    • Sponsorship Deal
        
o You must have a sponsor by this time and must have submitted all the required forms.
        
o The sponsorship deal will be examined to make sure it’s a true deal and represents an added value for the Team
and/or the Sponsor.
    • Project proposal
        
o Technical Approach and Design.
        
o Business Vision.

This report will cover the technical design and the prototyping issues. It’ll be very useful to guide you to reach a strong design
and get used to make technical design documents. The filtration will be based on your project’s technical and business aspects in
more details.

Judging Panels
The teams will present their projects to judges’ panel: