IEEE Short Notes

Connecticut teenager wins $10,000 IEEE Presidents' Scholarship

Mariangela Lisanti has won the $10,000 IEEE Presidents' Scholarship with
her project "Conductance Quantization in Au Nanocontacts." IEEE past
President Bruce Eisenstein presented the 17 year old senior from Staples
High School, Westport, Connecticut US with the award on 10 May at the
annual Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) held this
year in San Jose, CA. The IEEE Foundation supported Scholarship is the only
Institute-wide scholarship awarded to a pre-college student. It is the
largest special award given by an organization at Intel ISEF. Lisanti
developed a novel technique for measuring conductance quantization in
metallic nanowires, using gold as its conductor. It is both faster and less
expensive than the three devices commonly used. Her device cost $35 to
build, while the other devices average $100,000.

Lead judge Keith Gudger, Santa Clara Valley Section, fielded a team of 14
judges, including Rachel Wilson, who will serve as Lead Judge for the 2002
Intel ISEF, to sort through the 1230 projects. Finalists hailed from 43
countries, Argentina through Venezuela, Native American Indian lands, and
47 of the United States.

2001 WebEd Workshop Contest

The IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) is sponsoring a contest for the
development of an outstanding overview tutorial for web delivery. Prizes
are $500.00, $350.00, and $200.00. They will be awarded to the winning IEEE
Technical Society. This contest was announced at the 2001 Web Ed Workshop
in Alexandria, VA, USA but is not limited to societies who sent
representatives to that event. Societies may submit more than one entry for
consideration.

Representatives of nearly 20 technical societies and councils attended the
2001 Technical Societies WebEd Workshop, held 21-22 April. Funded by the
IEEE Foundation, the Workshop was designed by the Educational Activities
Board Society Education Committee (EAB SEC), chaired by Saifur Rahman.
Lively and collegial, the Societies gave a summary of their current and
future plans for educational outreach. Lyle Feisel, EAB VP, outlined his
vision of education as a member benefit, and EA staff and volunteers
presented information on production support available to the Societies. In
a hands-on session, attendees learned tips and tricks of using Hotfoot to
record and compress their audio-PowerPoint presentations, complimentary
copy supplied by the EAB SEC. The attendees agreed to contribute an
audio-PowerPoint tutorial to the IEEE Professional Development Institute by
14 September.

University of New Mexico courses

The IEEE is once more making video tutorials from the University of New
Mexico available. Four tutorials on microelectronics are ready to ship.
These state-of-the-art courses focus on test engineering, technical
foundation, failure analysis, and reliability. Training managers and
individual engineers in the manufacturing fields will benefit from the
structured course layout and expert lectures.
For more information on the following titles, visit the IEEE store,
www.ieee.org/store. All titles in English only.

Microelectronic Failure Analysis Order Product: #HV7059
Microelectronic Failure Analysis - Technical Foundation Lectures Order
Product: #HV7060.
Microelectronic Reliability Order Product: #HV7048
Microelectronic Test Engineering Order Product: #HV7047

CD ROM delivery to replace videos

Educational Activities has begun migrating selected video tutorials to the
friendlier CD-ROM format. The format is world compatible, has jump
capabilities, and, by its nature, modularizes course content. The courses
formerly at the 2000 EAB Video-on-Demand site and most of the PE Review
courses have already been packaged as CD-ROMs.
EA will be phasing out its reliance on videotape delivery. Some future
tutorials on CD-ROM will include a running English language transcript
synchronized with the presentation. The running transcript reinforces the
lesson and allows for clarification of regional or national dialects of the
presenters.

Lynn Murison
Outreach Administrator, IEEE Educational Activities
ph: 1.732.562.6526
www.ieee.org/organizations/eab/