DAC Professional Development Program Announcement

The 35th Design Automation Conference is sponsoring a Professional
Development Program to encourage advanced undergraduate students (Junior
or Senior levels) and first-year graduate students (beginning first year,
or finishing first and beginning second year) to join the electronic
design automation profession or pursue graduate studies in this field.
This program will introduce students to DAC and the design automation
profession through meetings, tours, and by association with a mentor who
is an advanced graduate student already working in the area.

DAC will pay the student registration fee, a banquet ticket, and $200 for
partial coverage of the travel expenses for the students.  The awardees
are required to attend a planning meeting in San Francisco, CA on June
16th and submit a one-page report describing their experience at DAC.

Candidate students must be recommended by a professor in the DA
profession. The professor must provide a reference letter for the student
stating that he/she is enrolled in a major suitable for DA profession, is
considering working in the DA profession, or will benefit professionally
by attending DAC. The professor should also commit to help the student
make arrangements for transportation and lodging at the conference site.
The student should in turn provide a brief (2 pages maximum) biography and
a short statement outlining his or her goals and objectives. E-mail
correspondence is preferred. 

To organize this effort, we also need student mentors. Student mentors are
advanced graduate students who are already working in the DA field and
volunteer to bring in qualified students from their university or college
and act as tour guides for these students at DAC. The student mentors will
receive a standard DAC travel grant.

If you are qualified and interested in taking advantage of this
opportunity to attend DAC, please send the required documents to Jinan Lou
(the student coordinator) or Massoud Pedram (the program coordinator) by
Wednesday, May 13, 1998. 


Jinan Lou 
Attn: DAC Professional Development Program 
University of Southern California 
Dept. of EE-Systems 
Los Angeles CA 90089-2562 
Ofc: (213) 740-9481 
Fax: (213) 740-7290 
E-mail: jlou@usc.edu 

Massoud Pedram 
Attn: DAC Professional Development Program 
University of Southern California 
Dept. of EE-Systems 
Los Angeles CA 90089-2562 
Ofc: (213) 740-4458 
Fax: (213) 740-7290 
E-mail: pedram@usc.edu 


DAC thanks Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA)  for
administering the Professional Development Program and the IEEE Circuits
and Systems Society (CAS) for additional funding support. 


URL site: http://atrak.usc.edu/~studprog/