NSF Student Travel Grant for 2022 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC 2022)

2022 年 IEEE 射频集成电路研讨会 (RFIC 2022) 的 NSF 学生旅费补助金

• 批准号: 2225104
• 负责人: Donald Lie
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: Texas Tech University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-05-15 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2225104&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Student; Travel; Grant; 2022

The 2022 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC'22) is an annual international symposium that serves as a premier forum focused exclusively on presenting the latest state-of-the-art research results in radio-frequency (RF), millimeter-wave, and wireless integrated circuits (ICs). The RFIC'22 will be held at the Colorado Convention Center, June 19-21. The Symposium is part of Microwave Week 2022, the world's largest RF and microwave technical convention. Participation at RFIC'22 will expose US-based students to this critical research field of US national interests (e.g., 5G/6G wireless), enhance the research experiences for students, and provide increased opportunities for new collaborations to advance knowledge. However, attending RFIC'22 is getting more expensive each year (transportation, lodging, and registration fees all more costly), and not every researcher has the funds to allow their students to travel to RFIC'22. Moreover, undergraduate students are rarely getting the opportunity for funding as they are typically not engaging in research in their early career. Yet, young students' attendance is important because they represent the future of RFIC'22. Students also benefit tremendously by attending presentations on the latest research, making new connections, and participating in the various conference events. Thus, the NSF RFIC'22 travel grant can help increase student attendance in a significant manner. It is particularly useful to encourage student participation in RFIC'22 workshops, dedicated students forums, panels, demos, tutorials, exhibition, and attending papers presentations. The proposed activity may noticeably improve the participation of US-based students who are female, persons with disabilities, and underrepresented minorities in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields to RFIC'22. It will help enhance the STEM education proficiencies for US-based students. It can also help the development of a diverse, globally competitive STEM workforce in the US, and increase partnerships between academia, industry, and government to increase economic competitiveness of the United States.RFIC'22 offers a number of events specifically beneficial to student researchers, which include technical talks, focused student forums (1st time in the RFIC Symposium history), interactive demo session, workshops, tutorials, technical lecture, exhibition, the three-minute thesis (3MT) competition program, and other targeted student activities. As IEEE RFIC Symposium is one of the world's premier events to learn about RF IC design, technology and research, students are able to obtain feedbacks on their work, talk with senior researchers from government, industry, and academia, and get exposed to the latest research. These activities provide the students the latest updates and direct interactions with world experts from government, industry, and academia, and provide unique training that is not possible from a typical university program. Over the last three years before the COVID-19 pandemic, RFIC Symposium has been a three-day event with over 900 registered attendees, including about 300 students annually and keep growing. We will use this NSF travel fund to fully fund the participation of 12 US-based students (i.e., covering the total cost). The NSF student travel grant program will be publicized on the RFIC'22 website and through special email blasts that will focus on students' activities; it will also be posted on social media (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.). We will also reach out to faculty in US universities and ask them to publicize the grant and encourage their past and current class students to apply for it. The funding will be for full-time students from any U.S. university. RFIC'22 organizers seek to increase student participants by targeting women, undergraduates, and under-represented groups. The aim is to support young researchers who might not otherwise be able to attend RFIC'22 due to financial difficulty, as well as to encourage the diversity of the field.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

2022年IEEE射频集成电路研讨会（RFIC'22）是一个年度国际研讨会，作为一个主要论坛，专注于展示射频（RF），毫米波和无线集成电路（IC）的最新研究成果。RFIC'22将于6月19日至21日在科罗拉多会议中心举行。该研讨会是2022年微波周的一部分，这是世界上最大的射频和微波技术会议。参加RFIC'22将使美国学生接触到美国国家利益的这一关键研究领域（例如，5G/6 G无线），增强学生的研究经验，并为新的合作提供更多的机会，以推进知识。然而，参加RFIC'22每年都变得越来越昂贵（交通，住宿和注册费都越来越昂贵），并不是每个研究人员都有资金让他们的学生前往RFIC'22。此外，本科生很少有机会获得资助，因为他们通常在职业生涯早期不从事研究。然而，年轻学生的出席是重要的，因为他们代表了RFIC'22的未来。学生们还通过参加最新研究的演讲，建立新的联系以及参加各种会议活动而受益匪浅。因此，NSF RFIC'22旅行补助金可以帮助显著提高学生出勤率。鼓励学生参与RFIC'22研讨会、专门的学生论坛、小组讨论、演示、教程、展览和参加论文演示特别有用。拟议的活动可能会显着提高美国学生谁是女性，残疾人和代表性不足的少数民族在STEM（科学，技术，工程和数学）领域的参与RFIC'22。这将有助于提高美国学生的STEM教育专业水平。它还可以帮助在美国发展多元化的、具有全球竞争力的STEM劳动力，并增加学术界、工业界和政府之间的合作伙伴关系，以提高美国的经济竞争力。RFIC'22提供了许多特别有利于学生研究人员的活动，其中包括技术讲座、重点学生论坛（RFIC研讨会历史上的第一次），互动演示会议，研讨会，教程，技术讲座，展览，三分钟论文（3 MT）竞赛计划和其他有针对性的学生活动。由于IEEE RFIC研讨会是世界上了解RF IC设计，技术和研究的主要活动之一，学生能够获得他们工作的反馈，与来自政府，工业和学术界的高级研究人员交谈，并接触到最新的研究。这些活动为学生提供了最新的更新，并与来自政府，工业和学术界的世界专家直接互动，并提供了独特的培训，这是不可能从一个典型的大学课程。在COVID-19大流行前的过去三年，RFIC研讨会一直是一个为期三天的活动，有超过900名注册与会者，其中包括每年约300名学生，并保持增长。我们将使用这笔NSF旅行基金全额资助12名美国学生的参与（即，总成本）。NSF学生旅行补助金计划将在RFIC'22网站上公布，并通过专门的电子邮件爆炸，将重点放在学生的活动;它也将发布在社交媒体上（例如，Facebook、LinkedIn等）。我们还将联系美国大学的教师，请他们宣传这笔赠款，并鼓励他们过去和现在的学生申请。这笔资金将用于美国任何大学的全日制学生。RFIC'22组织者寻求通过针对女性，本科生和代表性不足的群体来增加学生参与者。该奖项旨在支持那些因经济困难而无法参加RFIC'22的年轻研究人员，并鼓励该领域的多样性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。