Shaping the future of digital television: Rohde & Schwarz tests hands-on knowledge of young engineers

It is hard to imagine life today without digital television. Rohde & Schwarz puts young engineers to the test in this field. For the seventh time the company is teaming up with the German Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE) to host its international case study competition. Engineering students from Germany and Singapore are invited to explore the DVB-T digital television standard and its successor, DVB-T2.

DVB-T has been gaining ground since 2002. However, this standard, which supports digital TV reception via antenna, is beginning to run up against its transmission capacity limits. Consequently, the next digital broadcasting technology generation, DVB-T2, is already waiting in the wings. The motto of this year’s case study competition is, "Move up to the next level – the future of digital broadcasting is in your hands!" The students’ assignment will be to prepare a presentation and then deliver it to network operators or program providers. The goal is to persuade them to use DVB-T2 to broadcast their services. To prepare their presentations the students must accomplish various tasks along the way. After all tasks are completed, each university’s winning team will be selected by a jury made up of a professor from the university as well as an engineer and a human resources manager from Rohde & Schwarz.

The preliminary rounds of the 2010 case study competition will take place between May 10 and June 7 at the participating universities, with the exception of Singapore. The two qualifying rounds for students at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) will take place at the Rohde & Schwarz office in Singapore.

In the final, scheduled for June 17/18 at Rohde & Schwarz headquarters in Munich, the winning teams from the various universities will go head to head. The winners will take home Apple iPads as well as a 2000 euro cash prize for their university. But your participation will be rewarderd in any case: Every participant achieves a technical text book from Rohde & Schwarz.

Rohde & Schwarz Press Release - Retrieved 02/26/2010