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Graduate student awards.
Graduate Student Fellowship
Past Winners
- 2004: Vankataraman Kartik (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 2005: Matthew Graham (UC San Diego)
- 2006: Bart Raeymaekers (UC San Diego)
Purpose: To encourage technical research related to the field of information storage and processing systems, among Mechanical Engineering graduate students across the world.
Term: The ISPS graduate student fellowship will be awarded once each calendar year.
Award: The graduate fellowship consists of a monetary award of $1500 and free registration for the annual ISPS Conference in the year the award is granted.
Eligibility:
- Mechanical
Engineering graduate students, pursuing
thesis based research in areas
of interest to the information storage and processing
systems.
- The
student should not have defended his/her
thesis by the time that the fellowship
is awarded.
- A
graduate student is eligible to receive
this award only once during
his/her career.
Procedure: Interested students need to submit an
application packet by March 31st
of each year to the chair of the awards committee. The application packet should contain:
- A statement of interest outlining the student’s goals in
pursuing research
in the field of information storage and processing systems.
- A statement summarizing the key research achievements of the student in
the field of information
storage and processing systems.
- Three letters of support from faculty members at
the student’s institution
or from industry collaborators.
- Copies of relevant conference and journal
papers.
Selection criteria: The Awards Committee of the
ISPS Division will decide the winner of the fellowship.
The decision will be based on the following criteria:
- Conduct research in the area of information storage
and processing systems.
- Demonstrate/promise significant
theoretical/applied achievements in graduate research
in the areas of interest of the division.
- Support
letters from faculty and/or industry.
Award notification and presentation:
- The winner of the fellowship will be notified of their
award by May 1st of
each year.
- The winner is strongly encouraged to attend the ISPS
conference to accept
the award.
Graduate Student Conference Scholarship
Five graduate student scholarships are offered for the ISPS Conference. The conference scholarship offers free of charge enrollment to the conference, all handouts, and catered meals.
All graduate students who wish to be considered for the scholarship are required to submit a brief (1 page maximum) description of the student’s thesis research and a brief statement of the applicability of their thesis research to the research areas of the ISPS Division.
Procedure: Interested students need to submit a letter (e-mail) of intent and the brief document described above
by March 31st
of each year to the chair of the awards committee.
Note that there is a limit of two graduate students per academic advisor for the the Conference Scholarships.
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