At the May meeting in Toulouse, the EDS Administrative Committee (AdCom) approved a proposal by the Educational Activities Committee to award IEEE Electron Devices Society Graduate Student Fellowships beginning in 2001. One year fellowships will be awarded to promote, recognize, and support graduate level study and research within the Electron Devices Society's field of interest: Compound Semiconductor Devices and Circuits, Device Reliability Physics, Electronic Materials, Microelectromechanical Systems, Optoelectronic Devices, Photovoltaic Devices, Power Devices and ICs, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Vacuum Devices, and VLSI Technology and Circuits.
At least one fellowship will be awarded to students in the Americas, Europe/Mid-East/Africa, Asia-Pacific every year.
The prize for each winner will include a monetary award and plaque to the student and grants to the department and the faculty advisor in support of the student's project. A travel subsidy will be provided to each recipient to attend the IEDM for the presentation of the award.
The candidate must be an IEEE EDS student member at the time of nomination, be pursuing graduate education within the EDS field of interest on a full-time basis, and continue his/her studies at the current institution with the same faculty advisor for twelve months after receipt of award. The Sponsor must be an IEEE EDS member. Previous award winners will be ineligible.
The EDS Newsletter will feature articles about the EDS Graduate Fellows and their work over the course of the next year.
The proposal has been sent to the Technical Activities Board Awards & Recognition Committee (TABARC) for approval. Details of the application process will be published in December following the approval of TAB at its November 18 meeting. EDS is targeting the award of its first group of Graduate student fellows in August, 2001.
Arlene A. Santos
National Semiconductor Corp.
Ellicott City, MD