UTAS-Ibra IEEE Student branch hosted the 3rd IEEE Student Young Professional Congress (SYP) on March 22nd and 23rd, 2022.

The IEEE SYP Congress is an event that gathers IEEE Student members from all the IEEE Student branches in IEEE Oman Section. SYP Congress provides an networking opportunity for the participants among different student branches in IEEE Oman Section.

The 3rd SYP congress was conducted on virtual mode. Project competition, Technical Quiz, Programming Competition, and Technical Paper Presentation were among the competitions held during this edition of the SYP convention. The event drew a large number of participants from various IEEE Student branches.

UTAS-Ibra bagged different awards in the said competitions. Among the winners are the following:

• Second Place in Undergraduate Project Competition:
  Rajwa Yousuf Al-Rashdi and Amani Yaqoob Said Al-Rahbi in their project entitled, “Raspberry Pi Based Image Analysis Technique to determine the Ripeness and Grading of Tomato”.
• Best Paper Award in Technical Paper Presentation for Smart City Applications Category:
  Marwa Mohsin Said Al-Maskari in her paper on “Web and Arduino Based Exclusive Covid-19 Patient Monitoring and Tracking”.
• Best Paper Award in Technical Paper Presentation for AI & Machine Learning Applications Category:
  Al-Khatab Salim Al-Harthy and Al-Anoud Hamed Al-Rasbi on their paper entitled, “IoT based Real-time Wind Power monitoring and online forecasting using ANN and Cloud for Energy Management in Smart Grid Environment”.
• Technical Quiz Competition:
  First Place – Ali Nasser Ali Sulaiyam Al-Talai Second Place – Hamed Ghasab Hamed Al-Mashrafi

Keynote speech and Technical talk were also the part of this congress. Dr.Janaki Sivakumar, Associate Professor, Global College of Engineering and Technology, Oman, delivered a technical talk on “Education 4.0 with Block Chain”. Dr. Maruf A. Aminu, Senior Lecturer, Military Technological College, Oman, delivered a keynote speech on "Drawbacks of Distributed Generation".

UTAS-Ibra Congratulates all of the attendees and winners of the IEEE SYP Congress 2022, as well as the organizing committee's efforts in making this event a huge success.