Travel funds in support of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society 1999 Annual International Meeting, July 1999, Orlando, Florida

9819861星期四，1998年IEEE-AP/URSI天线和传播会议是由电气和电子工程师学会(IEEE)和国际无线电科学联合会(URSI)共同主办的年度国际会议。该会议定期吸引约1000名代表学术界和工业界的代表参加。IEEE天线与传播学会和URSI的几个小组将于1999年7月在佛罗里达州奥兰多的文艺复兴酒店举行会议。每年，天线与传播学会都会通过一些机制促进学生参与会议。其中最重要的一项是会议上的学生论文比赛。这个有选择性的项目将世界上最好的学生聚集在一个综合项目中，在这个项目中，他们向包括一群评委在内的技术观众展示他们的作品。该项目有助于培养学生的技术敏锐性以及他们的沟通和演示技能。它还帮助向国际技术界介绍，并帮助建立一个学生社区，他们将领导下一代天线工程师。AP提供各种形式的财政支持，包括帮助低成本住房，但不报销旅费。NSF的差旅支持将确保该项目向最广泛的美国大学感兴趣的申请者开放。该提案要求差旅支持，以支付年轻研究人员的差旅费用，这些年轻研究人员的论文已被选中在会议上发表，但他们缺乏资金，如果没有差旅支持，他们可能无法参加会议。建议由AP技术计划委员会选择接受支持的人员。申请总额为14 000美元，按20名参加者平均700美元的旅费补助金计算。*

9819861ThursbyThe 1998 IEEE-AP/URSI Conference on Antennas and Propagation is an annual international conference co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(IEEE), and the Union of Radio Science International(URSI). The conference regularly draws about one thousand participants representing academia and industry. The Antennas and Propagation Society of the IEEE along with several subgroups of URSI will meet in Orlando, Florida at the Renaissance Hotel in July 1999.Each year, the Antennas and Propagation Society promotes student participation in the conference through a number of mechanisms. One of the most important is the Student Paper Competition at the conference. This selective program brings the world's best students together in an integrated program in which they present their work to a technical audience including a group of judges. The program helps develop the students' technical acumen as well as their communication and presentation skills. It also helps introduce then to the international technical community and helps to build a community of students who will lead the next generation of antenna engineers.The AP provides financial support of various forms including assistance in low cost housing, but does not reimburse travel expenses. Travel support from NSF will ensure that the program is open to the widest range of interested applicants from U.S. Universities.This proposal requests travel support to defray the travel expenses for young investigators whose papers have been selected for presentation at the Conference, but who lack funds and might not be able to attend without travel support. It is proposed that the AP Technical Program Committee select those to receive the support. The total amount requested is $14,000 on the basis of an average travel grant of $700 for 20 participants.***