Education Committee Report Steve Kenney Chair Shigeo Kawasaki Vice Chair

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Education Committee Report Steve Kenney
(Chair)Shigeo Kawasaki (Vice Chair)

• New Help
• Undergraduate/Postgraduate Scholarship
• Graduate Fellowship
• Education Forum at IMS-2005
• Microwave Education Foundation
• Update on IEEE XELL Program

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New Members of the Education Committee

• Rhonda Drayton Undergrad Scholarship
• Ramesh Ramados Graduate Fellowship
• Sanjay Raman Education Forum

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Undergraduate/Postgraduate Scholarship

• Organizer Sanjay Raman
• ? Rhonda Drayton
• 2004 27 Applicants, 10 awards
• Award Increased in 2005 to 1500
• Publicity in March issue of Microwave Magazine

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MTT-S Graduate Fellowship Program
SummaryAditya Gupta

• Significant increase in the number of applicants
  this year
• Increase in total number (from 17 to 88) and the
  number of countries represented (from 7 to 22)
• Most likely, the improvement is a result of
  better advertising (three emails to MTT-S
  community in September, October and November
  respectively)
• Winners of 2005 competition will be announced by
  April 15, 2005
• Awards will be made at the Students Luncheon
  (Microwave Week 2005)
• Will be contacting several AdCom members to help
  in evaluating the large number of applications
  received

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• Number of Applicants by country by year
• 22 countries represented in 2005
• Majority of applicants from the US, followed by
  Canada
• same trend for the past 5 years

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2005 IMS Education Forum

• Organizers S. Kenney and S. Ramen
• Original Theme Bridging the Gap Between
  Component Design and Systems Engineering in
  Microwave Education
• Alternate theme A demonstration of IEEE XELL
• Original venue Tuesday Panel Session (now Full)
• Proposed venue Tuesday Rump Session

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Microwave Education Foundation

• Organizer Kiyo Tomiyasu
• Ad Hoc Committee Formed by K.C. Gupta to
  investigate long term objectives in establishing
  a large endowment. Members
• Gupta, Tomiyasu, Lin, Perlman, and Kenney
• Targeted publicity toward Life Fellows and
  renowned MTT-S members
• Kiyo will match first 5000 in donations until
  April 1, 2005.

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Update on Online Publications

• History M4 Project suspended in 2001
• IEEE XELL project started in 2004
• Goal Distribution of content through Xplore
• MTT-S Involvement One IMS-2004 workshop
  presentations (Walid Ali-Ahmad) acquired by XELL
  published in 2005
• Education Committee Involvement
• Resurrect M4 project to create interactive
  content
• Establish peer review process to control quality
  of content acquired by XELL