Presenters will have the opportunity to present work in a printed poster format. The poster presentations will be presented simultenously with audience members and judges moving through the poster space throughout the session.

Abstracts are due March 20th.

Oral presentations will be delivered live to audience members and judges on the day of CERS. Oral presentations will be limited to 15 minutes with an additional 5 minutes for questions from the audience and judges.

Speakers will be separated into different categories, and their category will be determined from the submitted abstract. The best presenters from each category will be selected by the judges to earn prizes.

Penn State undergraduate, professional, and graduate students in any discipline may be authors on work submitted to CERS. However, work submitted to CERS must be mostly completed and written by the student submitting the work, done while the student was a student at Penn State, and suitable for a general technical audience.

Work submitted to CERS must be original and cannot be derived from work already submitted to peer-review. The student submitting the work must also be listed as the first author, with a maximum of five student authors for any single submission. Faculty advisers may be co-authors or acknowledged.

Visualization methods provide an important tool in engineering for the analysis and presentation of scientific work. Images can often convey information in a way that tables of data or equations cannot match. As a special feature of the CERS 2023, we are continuing the “Art in Science” competition. The competition is open to engineering graduate and undergraduate students of the Pennsylvania State University.

Competition Rules:

1. Submissions are limited to one image per contestant.
2. Images may be obtained by any imaging technique. They can also be the result of modeling and simulation, visualization of data, or can be obtained by combining multiple images into one artistic image. Because the focus is on art, images may be edited or enhanced to express creativity and visual impact but must maintain scientific integrity.
3. Judging: the session chairs and judges will independently determine the winners. Each entry is eligible for only one prize.
4. Image format guideline:

• All images are to be submitted online as a high-resolution .pdf file of at least 300 dpi (10 MB maximum sizes). Please include the your full name in the title of the .pdf file.
• All submitted images must include a short description of the technique used, the object that was imaged and any special conditions. In addition, your name, major, degree and e-mail address must be given.
• All images will be submitted electronically. No photographic hard copy prints will be accepted.

Rights:  By participating, winners agree to allow the College of Engineering to post their names online as a competition winner without further compensation. Except where prohibited, by accepting awards the winners agree to the public use of their names, email addresses and images for advertising or publicity purposes without further compensation.