Description

EMINENCE 1.0 competition is the first ever competition which was organized by Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity group, IEEE Student Branch, University of Ruhuna under the vision of empowering the undergraduate women engineers and to inspire girls within the university to follow their innovative and competitive capabilities in engineering and science. The competition was held on 08 th December 2019 at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Ruhuna from 7.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. as one day event. The EMINENCE 1.0 competition was mainly targeted the female undergraduate students under a formation of maximum 4 members per team with over a 50% of female participation. The competition was consisted of four different tasks covering four major areas in Electrical and Information Engineering aspects. The four categories are, Lighting design, Telecommunication network design, Software challenge and an Electronic design based on sensors. EMINENCE 1.0 competition was able to achieve a resounding success with 72 contestants in year 2019 and with the contribution of the organizing committee.