{"id":74319,"date":"2018-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-engineering-students-win-award-of-excellence-regional-silver-award-in-computer-engineering-competition\/"},"modified":"2018-10-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:00:00","slug":"uri-engineering-students-win-award-of-excellence-regional-silver-award-in-computer-engineering-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/uri-engineering-students-win-award-of-excellence-regional-silver-award-in-computer-engineering-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 engineering students win Award of Excellence, regional Silver Award in computer engineering competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — October 11, 2018 — 溏心vlog免费B站 graduates Daniel Williams, of North Smithfield<\/strong>, James Kiessling, of East Providence<\/strong>, Christian D’Ovidio of Cranston<\/strong> won the Award of Excellence in the Global Grand Final Competition at the 2018 Innovate FPGA (field-programmable gate array) Global Design Contest. The team also won the contest\u2019s Silver Award in Americas regional award.<\/p>\n

The Innovate FPGA Global Design Contest is an international competition involving teams from around the world. They compete on projects to enhance embedded computers with the firms, Terasic and Intel. The competition is open to students, professors, inventors and industry professionals. The team was the only group of undergraduate students from an American university to advance to the Grand Final competition in California.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are extremely proud and excited for their achievement,\u201d said advisors Bin Li, assistant professor of electrical, computer and biomedical engineering, and Professor Jien-Chung Lo, of electrical, computer and biomedical engineering. \u201cThe students worked hard and their effort paid off. The project requires knowledge from core courses in computer engineering. Their achievement proves that our students are receiving a first-rate education.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team\u2019s quantum gate emulator was designed to be used as a learning tool for individuals who want to learn how to use quantum computing.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuantum computing is a fast-growing area of interest in the computing world, as they are expected to be able to solve problems much faster than classical computers,\u201d said Li. \u201cHowever, very few people have intimate knowledge of quantum computing, and the learning curve of understanding quantum computing is very high. Thus, there is a strong need to develop a quantum computing emulator.\u201d<\/p>\n

In this project, Lo suggested that the students use FPGA to mimic various quantum gates. Li came up with the idea to make the emulator accessible by users via their laptops and smartphones anytime, anywhere. The students used these ideas to design and build the emulator throughout the spring 2018 semester in their embedded system design course taught by Li.<\/p>\n

After submitting the project at the end of the semester, their proposal went through two stages of regional competitions, where they were awarded the Silver Award in Americas, and won $1,200 and an all-expense paid trip to the Grand Final Competition in California. For winning the Award of Excellence at the Grand Finals, they won a Terasic Self-Balancing Robot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found that the project was challenging, and it forced me to learn a lot more about FPGAs than I had learned in my courses,\u201d said Kiessling. \u201cThe contest itself was also a great experience, being able to go to California, visit the Intel campus, and see all of the other great projects that others made at the Grand Finals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emma Gauthier, a student writer in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Marketing and Communications Department and a journalism major, wrote this press release.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — October 11, 2018 — 溏心vlog免费B站 graduates Daniel Williams, of North Smithfield, James Kiessling, of East Providence, Christian D’Ovidio of Cranston won the Award of Excellence in the Global Grand Final Competition at the 2018 Innovate FPGA (field-programmable gate array) Global Design Contest. The team also won the contest\u2019s Silver […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-74319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-college-of-engineering"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}