The 2009 Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant was awarded to two student members from the radiation effects community. At the opening of the NSREC technical sessions (July 2009), Tim Oldham, Chairman of the Radiation Effects Steering Group, presented both students with the grant. The grant included tuition for the 2009 NSREC Short Course and a check for $500.
The purpose of the Phelps’ Grant is to promote continuing education and encourage membership in the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS).
The basis for judging is exceptional promise as a graduate student working in the fields of the NPSS, “exceptionally good work” in those fields, and an expectation that attendance at an NPSS-sponsored short course will result in an improved possibility of obtaining a job within the radiation effects community.
On behalf of the NPSS, we are proud to announce that the two recipients for the 2009 Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant are Marta Bagatin, University of Padova and Michael McLain, Arizona State University.
Marta Bagatin received the Laurea degree (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2006. Since January, 2007, she is following the Ph.D. School in Information Science and Technology at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova. Her research interests concern radiation and reliability effects on electronic devices, especially on volatile and nonvolatile semiconductor memories. In particular, she is studying radiation effects, both TID and SEE, on Flash memories, analyzing the susceptibility of all the functional blocks in the device. Besides, concerning SRAM, she’s interested in how aspects like temperature and aging can affect the soft error sensitivity of the memory cell, through radiation tests, analytical modeling, and simulations.
The results of her work were recognized with the Outstanding Student Paper Award at NSREC 2008 and the Best Student Presentation Award at RADECS 2008.
Michael McLain graduated with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 2004 and with an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University in 2006. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University under the guidance of Dr. Hugh Barnaby. His research interests include semiconductor device physics, hostile environment effects (i.e. radiation and extreme temperature) on electronics, and radiation-aware compact modeling. Michael has authored/co-authored over ten refereed conference and journal papers. He is also a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu engineering honor societies, and is a former recipient of the ARCS scholar award and Fulton Fellowship. |
