Lakehead U Students Win National Competition

(Thunder Bay - May 12, 2005) Three Lakehead University Electrical Engineering students have won a major award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Chris Erickson, Jeffrey Cowan, and Andrej Zlatanovic are the first-place winners of the Life Member Award 2004 IEEE Canada Student Paper Competition for the Central Canada Council.

The group, supervised by Dr. Abdelhamid Tayebi, a professor with the Faculty of Engineering at Lakehead, won for their paper entitled "Computer Based State Feedback Control of a Double Inverted Pendulum."

For each IEEE Council in Canada (Western, Central and Eastern), there are three awards: IEEE Life Member Award, for the best overall paper; Hackbusch Award, for the best paper by a team of University students (one or more); and the Palin Award for the best paper by a team of College students (one or more).

To speak with Dr. Tayebi or any of the students, please call Dr. Tayebi at 343-8597. For more information on the competition, visit www.ieee.org.

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Contact: Marla Tomlinson, Lakehead University Office of Communications, 807-343-8177