DCU Electronic Engineering Students Test Their Endurance Skills!

DCU Electronic Engineering Students Put Their Endurance Skills To The Test In The IEEEXtreme Programming Competition.

IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of IEEE student members have the chance to participate in a worldwide contest to solve programming problems.  The only difference here, is they compete over 24 hours solid! Each team is based in their home institution and the students are given problems that must be solved by writing appropriate computer programmes.  These are then submitted to a central server and adjudicated upon.  Marks are awarded for each problem depending its difficulty level and how many teams manage to solve it.  The first prize is a trip to an IEEE conference anywhere in the world! The contest starts at 1am Saturday 18th October and runs over a 24 hour period until 1am Sunday, so  it’s certainly a test of edurance and tactics in addition to programming skills.

Six DCU Electronic Engineering students, both undergraduate and postgraduate will represent DCU. Ian Kavanagh, Muhammad Imran, Henrique Lopes are “Team HIM” while Ian Harrison, Conor Dempsey and Niall Tiernan are the “DME Demons”.  Dr. Conor Brennan will act as team proctor making sure that everyone has enough coffee.

We wish them all the best of luck and hope they get plenty of sleep in advance!

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