“2023 IEEE SPS Seasonal school on Hands-On Arduino Programming and DSP Applications”

The Seasonal School is a training programme “of excellence”, which is strongly interdisciplinary, and focused on the signal processing applications, Hands-on Arduino programming and membership drive. The event is open to Pre-University students, University students, PhD students, academia, professionals, Industry and government.

The Seasonal School will be an opportunity for meetings and exchanges of ideas as well membership development for students with interests in signal processing and its applications. This will be a platform where academia, industry meets the students and participants will be able to learn Digital Signal processing technologies and its applications, innovative thinking and other emerging technologies.

These four days event is looking at hosting IEEE members and non member (Students, Professionals, Academia, Industry and Government) a total of about 80 participants at Busitema University main campus in Busia. The event will be packed with two international distinguished lectures both from academia/industry as well with a couple of local speakers. DSP Applications, Hands-on Arduino programming/showcase of students’ innovative signal processing projects and IEEE signal processing membership drive. And this will be a fertile ground for formation of IEEE Uganda SPS Chapter.

Please provide an outline on topics to be covered.

Topic1: Innovation Starts with Education: Bringing Research into the Curriculum
- What is innovation?
- what is the Education to Innovation?
- What are types of Innovation
- How does research fit in our education system?
- What are 5 stages of innovation?

Topic2: Audio for Intelligent Devices – Approaches and Applications
- What are Audio Intelligent Devices?
- Why need for audio for Intelligent Device?
- Where are audio Intelligent devices applied?

Topic3: Hands-on Arduino programming. - Can Arduino be used for Digital signal processing?
- What is an Arduino?
- How to program an Arduino?
- How to program a simple Arduino sensor?
- Participants will be asked to come up with their own DSP project.


Topic4: IEEE SPS student Chapter & Membership Drive
- What is IEEE?
- What is IEEE SPS?
- How does it benefit its members?
- When to become a member?
- How can a chapter be formed?

Confirmed list of Speakers:

1.Danilo P. Mandic
Imperial College London
London, United Kingdom
d.mandic@imperial.ac.uk
Topic: Innovation Starts with Education: Bringing Research into the Curriculum

2.Ivan Tashev
Microsoft
Redmond, WA, USA
ivantash@microsoft.com
Topic: Audio for Intelligent Devices – Approaches and Applications

Alfred J Asumogi
IEEE Grade: Member 92345240
CERT Electronics Tech, DIP Telecom & Bachelors in Computer Science
IEEE YP chair & SPS member
IEEE Uganda section
Topic: IEEE SPS student Chapter & Membership Drive

Ekatatan Josh
IEEE Grade: Member
Busitema University
CERT Electronics Tech, DIP Telecom & Bachelors in ICT 
Topic: Hands-on Arduino programming. Can Arduino do signal processing?

Registration is at https://www.spsug.com