Student Application Papers

IEEE Mini-Grants
for
Graduate and Upperclassman Design Project
Student Application Papers

$500 Grants for Students
with
Additional Mini-Grants for Faculty Mentors

The IEEE is offering Grants to both students and faculty mentors to help with graduate and capstone design projects with an industry standards component.*  IEEE will publish the results as a Student Application Paper.

 Requirements:

Student(s) beginning a design or development project will submit an Abstract Summary describing the project, which includes:

1. Summarizing the project goal (i.e., what are you trying to build?)
2. What standards are being considered to achieve the project goal?
3. Must include a declaration of intention to submit an application paper for publication by the IEEE upon completion of the project.
4. A statement of endorsement from a faculty mentor must be included.

 Important Dates:

• Applications may be submitted at any time throughout the year. Deadline for 2009 mini-grant is:
  
  
  • 15 October 2009

Application and Instructions (DOC, 55.0 KB)

Process for evaluating grant applications (DOC, 28.0 KB)

How final Student Application Paper will be evaluated before publication (DOC, 26 KB)

* Examples of industry standards: IEEE 802.11 Standard for Wireless LANs, IEEE 11073 Standards for Health Infomatics, National Electric Safety Code, etc. For a list of IEEE groups working on industry standards, see http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/index.html.

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