Masters Student Fellowship
Description: One-year fellowships awarded to promote, recognize, and support graduate Masters level study and research within the Electron Devices Society’s field of interest.
Three fellowships will be awarded each year, with the intention of at least one fellowship being given to eligible students in each of the following geographical regions: Americas, Europe/Mid-East/Africa, Asia & Pacific. Only one candidate can win per educational institution.
Prize: US$2,000 and a plaque to the student, to be presented by the Dean or Department head of the student’s enrolled graduate program.
Eligibility: Candidate must: be an IEEE EDS student member at the time of nomination; be accepted into a graduate program or within the first year of study in a graduate program in an EDS field of interest on a full-time basis; and continue his/her studies at a graduate education institution. Nominator must be an IEEE EDS member and preferably be serving as the candidate’s mentor or faculty advisor. Previous award winners are ineligible. This award cannot be given to a candidate for the same work for which an IEEE Technical Field Award or IEEE Medal was previously received.
Basis for Judging: Demonstration of his/her significant ability to perform research in the fields of electron devices and proven history of academic excellence in engineering and/or physics as well as involved in undergraduate research and/or supervised project.
Application Package:
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A letter of recommendation from an individual familiar with the student’s research and educational credentials. Letters of recommendation cannot be from the nominator.
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One-page biographical sketch of the student (including student's mailing address and e-mail address)
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Two-page (maximum) statement by the student describing his or her education and research interests, accomplishments and graduation date. This can include undergraduate, graduate and summer internship research work.
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One copy of the student’s transcripts/grades.
Timetable:
- Completed application packages are due at the EDS Executive Office no later than June 1, 2023.
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Recipients will be notified in August 2023.
- Monetary awards will be presented by the Dean or Department Chair of the recipient's graduate program at the beginning of the next academic term.
Please submit completed application packages by email to s.lehotzky@ieee.org (Stacy Lehotzky)
Additional Questions? Please contact Stacy Lehotzky s.lehotzky@ieee.org.
2022 Winners | School |
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Kamal Rudra | University of Michigan |
2021 Winners | School |
Arpit Nandi | Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (Himachal Pradesh, India) |
2020 Winners | School |
Hong-Yi Tu | National Sun Yat -Sen University |
Prasanna Venkatesan Ravindran | Georgia Institute of Technology |
2019 Winners | School |
Julian Arenas | Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia |
Nilesh Pandey | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India |
2018 Winners | School |
Neel Chatterjee | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
Yu-Chieh Chien | National Sun-Yat Sen University, Taiwan |
2017 Winners | School |
Abhinandan Borah | Columbia University, New York, USA |
Jiabin Wang | Tsinghua University, Beijing China |
Although the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) is pleased to invite all individuals and groups in the OFAC embargoed countries to submit nominations for IEEE EDS Awards, the IEEE EDS cannot provide any award monies to members from such countries at this time.