The INTELEC® Advisory and Conference Executive Committees sponsor the Joseph J. Suozzi INTELEC Fellowship in Power Electronics.  This fellowship is named in honor of the late Dr. Joseph Suozzi, a founder and long-time leader of INTELEC.  This grant of $15,000 is made annually to an electrical engineering graduate student studying in an area of power electronics applicable to communications systems.  Such systems include wireline, optical, wireless or combinations of such systems such as the Internet or embedded telecommunications infrastructures. Alternative energy systems for communications networks or network elements is also a suitable area.

This fellowship is international and is therefore open to electrical engineering graduate students in all countries.  It is a one-time grant to an individual and is not renewable.

Interested electrical engineering graduate students should submit:

• an essay not exceeding one page in length that explains how his/her proposed project can be applied to powering of communications systems
• a transcript of his/her grades
• a letter of support from his/her Faculty Advisor.

These materials should be sent by 2 February 2009 to the Chair of the IEEE Power Electronics Society Educational Activities Committee:

Dr. Hui Li
Chair, PELS Education Activities Committee
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
2525 Pottsdamer St.
Tallahassee, FL 32310
Phone: (850) 410-6590
Fax: (850) 410-6479
Email:li@eng.fsu.edu

The recipient of the 2009 INTELEC fellowship will be notified by 1 May 2009.