Posters competition
Description
Following the tradition of AMCA Congresses, a competition of posters presented by students of engineering and bachelor degrees will take place during MECOM 2018. The best works will be selected according to originality and presentation criteria by an evaluating committee designated by the organizing committee and the scientific committee
Poster submission deadline: Up to September 14, 2018. Up to September 30, 2018. Up to October 14, 2018
Only one work for participant will be accepted
Poster submission
To participate in the poster competition students should send:
- Poster abstract including title, authors and filiation
- Poster with the style indicated below
- CV of the poster main author
This information should be sent to mecom2018@herrera.unt.edu.ar with the subject “CONCURSO POSTER MECOM 2018”
Those students that have an abstract accepted to be presented in MECOM 2018 (with or without a complete paper associated) can required that their work is changed of session and included in the poster competition sending an e-mail to mecom2018@herrrera.unt.edu.ar with the subject “CONCURSO POSTER MECOM 2018”. The e-mail should indicate the ID of the work to be included in the poster competition.
Once the deadline for poster submissions is reached, the author will receive a confirmation mail and will have access to the OCS system to follow the poster in the “Poster competition for students” session.
Exposition
The student should be registered in the congress and he should personally expose the poster.
Instructions for poster preparation
The abstract should follow the format established for the first page of the congress papers (AMCA style)
The paper format can be downloaded here POSTER FORMAT.
Although the poster format is free (except for the heading that should include title, authors and filiation) it should contain the following items : Introduction (General problem description, assumptions and objectives), Methodology (Materials and methods), Results and Conclusions.
Evaluation
The evaluation of the abstract, the poster and the presentation by the student will be in charge of an evaluating committee designed by the organizing committee and the scientific committee.
Awards
The evaluating committee will prepare an order of merits and the three best posters will be awarded.