IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Undergraduate Scholarships for 2000
The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society will award eight undergraduate scholarships of $1000 each annually. These awards will encourage and motivate promising undergraduate to pursue a career/graduate program in electromagnetics and related fields.
Eligibility
- Undergraduate students in electrical engineering or related field.
- Must have taken at least one electromagnetics course.
- Show strong interest in a career or graduate education in electromagnetics, microwaves, antenna engineering or a closely related area.
- Endorsement of a faculty member who is a member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.
- Previous winners will not be eligible for a second award.
- Scholarship awardees are expected to provide a short report on how the scholarship benefited them in April 2001.
Selection Criteria
- Merit of the candidate's proposal.
- Academic merit of the candidate.
- Recommendation of the faculty sponsor. The primary criterion will be how the proposal will help the student to undertake a career/graduate program in electromagnetics or related areas. Research or senior projects in electromagnetics with potential student publication/presentation in a conference will be preferred.
Successful candidates will be announced in July 2000 and will receive the award within sixty days of announcement.
Application Material
- A current transcript showing the list of courses taken and the grades
- A one-page curriculum vita
- A two-page proposal explaining how the scholarship will benefit the candidate's proposed career in Electromagnetics-related field.
- Two letters of reference from faculty who are familiar with the candidate's studies. One of those must be an endorsement from a faculty who is a member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.
Send application material to:
Professor S. R. Rengarajan
Chair, Education Committee IEEE AP-S
Electrical and Computer Engineering
California State University
Northridge, CA 91330-8346 USA
All the application material must be received no later than April 30, 2000.
The deadline has been extended to May 15, 2000