Designed to Ensure Up to 15 Qualified Engineers Without Personal Resources,
Corporate Support Attend Premier Industry Conference
BOULDER, Colo., April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The 41st Design Automation
Conference (DAC) today inaugurated an engineering scholarship program intended
to ensure that up to 15 qualified engineers without personal resources or
corporate support are able to attend the premier industry conference.
Applications for the "Scholarship for DAC Alumni Between Employment" are
being accepted now through Friday, May 7, via an online confidential
questionnaire found on the DAC website:
http://www.dac.com/41st/41regscholarships.nsf/application.
Scholarships, valued at approximately $400 each, will be awarded by
lottery to those people who have attended DAC in the past, with extra
consideration given to those who have participated in electronic design
automation (EDA) industry activities. Scholarships do not include
transportation and housing. Anyone whose situation changes prior to the
conference will be asked to give up his or her scholarship to enable another
applicant to attend.
DAC, to be held Monday, June 7, through Friday, June 11, at the San Diego
Convention Center in San Diego, Calif., offers a variety of registration
options. For example, passes for the exhibition floor are available free of
charge for Monday, June 7, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. More details on registration
can be found at the DAC website: http://www.dac.com/41st/reg.html
"DAC is an integral part of the design automation community," remarks Ian
Getreu, past chair of DAC and overseer of the program. "Its sponsors and
executive committee feel strongly that everyone who is part of our community
should be in San Diego this June. This program is meant for members of the
design automation community who are transitioning between jobs."
About DAC
DAC is the premier forum for the electronic design and design automation
industries to exchange information on products, methodologies, and processes.
Attended by more than 10,000 developers, designers, researchers, managers and
engineers from leading electronics companies and universities around the
world, DAC includes more than 200 exhibitors and offers a highly selective
technical program covering the electronics industry's hottest trends.
The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing
Machinery/Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM/SIGDA), the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Circuits and Systems Society
(IEEE/CAS) and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium).
For more information, including registration, visit the DAC Web site at:
http://www.dac.com. Or, contact DAC management at (800) 321-4573.
SOURCE 41st Design Automation Conference
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Related links:
http://www.dac.com
CONTACT:
Laura Parker of Fleishman-Hillard, Public
Relations for the 41st Design Automation Conference,
+1-503-402-1437, parkerl@fleishman.com
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