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Motorola Scholar Awards Programme 2015-2016

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Eligibility

Final year student of BE/M.C.A

Region

India

Award

Up to Rs. 75,000/-

Deadline

Closed

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About The Program

The Foundation for Advancement for Education and Research (FAER), a registered non-profit trust, promoted by academics and industry leaders, has the main objective of improving quality of education through faculty empowerment programs on current technologies and starting of long-term programs of relevance with a view to reduce information divide in our country.

FAER has been active in the past three years in conducting several programs for faculty and has also piloted a 15 months post diploma in software testing approved by Government of Karnataka to be run in several polytechnics. It has taken eminent faculty to students everywhere through its Reach-to-Teach program.

FAER has been entrusted with the task of selecting Motorola Scholars. The program is focused towards areas of

a) Computer Science and IT

b) Communication

c) Power and Motorola Scholar Programme : 2015-16 Motorola Scholar Programme : 2015-16 2 FAER FAER 3 Energy Systems

d) Signal Processing

e) Environment and Ecology

f) Rural Technologies

g) Health care Technologies

h) Labour saving technologies for Women and

i) Applications. We expect the projects proposed by students should have some innovative component in them and should be implementable.

It can also be development of some devices. Kindly inform your students and encourage them to participate in this prestigious activity. This will enhance the image of students and your institution also.

The rules / poster / format for proposal are put up in our web site www.faer.ac.in. Details of our previous awards are available in our web site. Kindly provide wide publicity and encourage your students to participate in this program, please. Students submitting good proposals have a chance to get a small financial grant to execute them. The projects will become benchmarks of quality.  

EligibilityDeadline Date: Closed

1. Bonafide students doing B.E. / M.C.A. courses in final year are eligible to participate in this contest. Students should be studying in a recognized college / institute / university. 

How can you apply?

Project proposals should be sent both as a hard copy and soft copy (by email)  containing all details as per the format declaration and undertaking to our address by 30th October 2015 (new deadline 16th November 2015) .

To apply by Post (Hard copy) 

Foundation for Advancement of Education and Research

G5, Swiss Complex,

33, Race Course Road,

Bangalore- 560001

Phone: 080 - 65674409,

Website: www.faer.ac.in

To apply by Email (Soft copy)

E-mail: office@faer.ac.in 

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Terms and Conditions

  1. Bonafide students doing B.E. / M.C.A. courses in final year are eligible to participate in this contest. Students should be studying in a recognized college / institute / university.

  2. Some of the related subtopics are:
    a) Computer Science and Information Technology
    b) Communication technologies and concepts (digital, optical, wireless, satellite, etc.)
    c) Power and Energy Systems
    d) Signal Processing
    e) Applications
    Innovative applications of systems for problems related to rural areas and disadvantaged people - health, education, renewable energy, labour saving technologies, rural technologies, etc.

  3. The project proposal submitted by participants should pertain to any of the above topics or related areas. It should discuss the merits of the topic chosen. It should deal with new ideas / experiments / devices; innovation and details of implementation as well as its impacts on society.

  4. The project team (batch) can have up to maximum of Four students.

  5. The team should submit a letter from the principal of their institution stating that they are bonafide students of the institution studying for the degree in the final year and/or they belong to the SC/ST communities.

  6. The team should submit the project proposal in the prescribed form signed by their project advisor and principal.

  7. The team should submit a declaration that the work proposed will be taken up exclusively for the Motorola Scholar Contest.

  8. The team should also submit an undertaking that if the project is selected, they will take it up, complete within three months and submit the detailed project report to FAER.

  9. The Principal / HoD should give us an assurance that facilities required will be provided to the selected students. This may be part of the proposal.

  10. Project proposals should be sent both as a hard copy and soft copy (by email)  containing all details as per the format declaration and undertaking to our address by 30th October 2015.

  11. Project proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by a team of experts. The experts will select projects suitable for funding and also decide on the grant. The announcement of projects selected for this programme will be on 15th January 2016.

  12. Evaluation will be based on 
    a) Relevance to our focused areas
    b) Originality / innovation / novelty
    c) Technical strength
    d) Utility / applicability
    e) Feasibility
    f) Methodology and approach including implementation
    g) Analytical capabilities.
    Proposals without proper details may be rejected. So details are important.

  13. Selected teams will be informed by us along with conditions and details for submission of the project report by 15th January 2016. The same will be hosted to FAER website www.faer.ac.in

  14. The teams should submit the hardcopy of the Final project report by 15th May 2016.

  15. A team can send only one project proposal.

  16. The completed projects will be reviewed. A presentation cum seminar (including demos) will be arranged at Bengaluru. The Motorola scholars will be selected in the seminar, seminar invitations will be sent to all project teams.

  17. The Motorola Scholar Awards - The First prize will be Rs. 75,000/-, Second prize Rs. 50,000/-, 
    Third prize Rs. 30,000/-. 

    Special Award : Rs. 25,000/-. The scholars will be selected by experts. The awards and grants to all selected teams will be presented at the Seminar-cum-Exhibition.

  18. Kindly note that the topic chosen should be a focussed one - not very general or diffused; should be preferably an experimental one - not just programming work; and should be feasible and implementable in 3-4 months in the institutions.

Contact Details

Foundation for Advancement of Education and Research

G5, Swiss Complex,

33, Race Course Road,

Bangalore- 560001

Phone: 080 - 65674409,

E-mail: office@faer.ac.in ,

Website: www.faer.ac.in

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