Doctoral Thesis Award 2011 - Call for Submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Scope -- Contest 2010 -- Additional Information

Scope

The Award serves the purpose to romote most impactful doctoral student work, to provide the students withthe exposure to the community and the prospective employers, and to support interaction between academia and industry in the field of test technology. The Award is given to the winner of a two-stage contest with semi-finals held at TTTC-sponsored conferences, symposia or workshops. The winners f the semi-finals, determined by jurys composed of industrial experts, will compete against each other in the finals, held at a major TTTC-sponsored conference or symposium. This major Award is named after Prof. Edward J. McCluskey, a key educator and mentor in the fields of test technology, logic design, and reliability.

Contest 2011

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All active doctoral students working on test-related topics and recent graduates who graduated 2009 or later are eligible for the Award. An ndividual can only participate in the contest once in a lifetime. Prospective participants are encouraged to participate when they are close to thesis completion and have obtained sufficient results. Prospective contestants submit a summary of their thesis work (up to 2000 words), possibly accompanied by one additional page of figures and references. They are free tosubmit up to three published referenced as supporting material, which areconsidered by the jury on an optional basis. The abstract should clearly ddress the following:

define the problemand its relevance to industry,
describe existing ndustrial practices for solving the problem, and
explain the proposed methodology (and any pertinent case study) and how it advances the theory and/or practice in the particular field.

A student can freely choose the regional (semi-finals) site to submit the summary. Submissions to multiple regional sites are prohibited. There are four semi-finals sitesfor the Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2011:

Asian Test Symposium 2010 (ATS'10) in Shanghai, China; Web: http://ats10.shu.edu.cn/; Deadline: August 5, 2010 (passed); direct your questions to: Huawei Li (ICT, Beiljing, lihuawei@ict.ac.cn).
VLSI Test Symposium2011 (VTS'11) in Dana Point, California, USA; Web: http://www.tttc-vts.org/; Deadline: TBA; direct your questions to Shobha Vasudevan (University f Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, shobhav@uiuc.edu).
Latin American TestWorkshop 2011 (LATW'11) in Porto de Galinhas, Brazil; Web: http://www.ee.pucrs.br/~sisc/LATW/2011.html; strong>Deadline: January 15, 2011; direct your questions to Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt (UFRGS, Brazil, fglima@inf.ufrgs.br).
European Test Symposium 2011 (ETS'11) in Trondheim, Norway; Web: http://www.iet.ntnu.no/workshop/ets2011/index.shtml; Deadline: January 15, 2011; direct your questions to Ilia Polian (University of Passau, Germany, ilia.polian@uni-passau. de).

Based on the submitted abstracts, a set of semi-finalists will be selected for the semi-finals of he contest. This round includes a short (seven-minute) slot for oral presentation during a dedicated session at the semi-final event. The jury willjudge the presentations, and the winner of the semi-final will be announced during the event. The finalists will present their work in a 30-minute resentation at ITC'10, and the winner will be determined by a panel of industrial experts. The Award is given to the winning student and the advisor of the thesis and includes an invitation to submit a paper on the presented work to the IEEE Design & Test of Computers. TTTC’s E. J. McCluskey

Additional Information

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Past Award recipients and other useful information is found under br> http://www.tttc-events.org/tttc_website/index.php?section=awards_doctoral_thesis.

This award is organized y the TTTC Students Activities Committee. For more information, please contact its chair, Ilia Polian, at ilia.polian@uni-passau.de.

For more information, email Ilia Polian at: TTTC Student Activities Group

The Doctoral Thesis Award 2011 is sponsored bythe Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society's Test Technology Technical Council Student Activities Group (TTTC).