Walking into the O'Connell building used to be a delight for most engineering students, but quarantine has restricted this. As soon a students are able to return to campus, the Chico State IEEE would like to be able to welcome everyone as they enter the building, The method used to welcome students back will be the base idea for this project competition.

In the new semester, everyone who walks into the O'Connell building should be greeted with an autonomous system; the system should be able to run all day long without anyone controlling it and shut off if no one is present. Computer related majors could focus on creating software  to acknowledge when people are present and turn on the system. Majors with electrical engineering classes could focus on a large display, creating a driver circuit with a microcontroller, and powering the system. Students who haven't taken Upper Division Electrical or Computer classes have more freedom in their project as it must only be powered and take in an electrical signal to begin their project; these students might want to create an Arduino based project to wave a mechanical arm, display a message on an LCD, or control a variety of LEDs to decorate the area with.

With multiple projects us to create a singular system, people will be able to walk into the building, recognize that they have been noticed, and take a warm welcome. This warm welcoming is a general idea, but each category of students will be provided with example projects to complete.

This category of students will include those who have not taken EECE or CSCI 300 level classes and above. Students within majors outside of the ECC College are welcome and can register for this competition. Anyone who has registered for this competition is expected to attend at least one CSUC IEEE meeting before the due date. Meetings are held biweekly and
special circumstances can be made for students who are not able to attend one of the meetings by contacting us through the IEEE email listed above.

Lower Division Students have yet to take courses that would support higher-level projects, but this does not restrict students who fall in this category from completing an Upper Division Project. All students can register for the Upper Division Projects, but not all students can register for the Lower Division Projects. Transfer students who are within the EECE department and have yet to take 300 level EECE or CSCI courses will be permitted to register for the Lower Division category.

The Upper Division Projects should be related to Electrical or Computer Engineering, but all students are welcome to compete in the category of the competition. It would be advised to have taken classes of EECE or CSCI 300 level and above. The complexity of these projects will be more favored than that of the Lower Division projects. All project examples could be
simplified to reduce complexity or combined to create a larger project.