Applications are invited for NASF scholarship award program for the 2015-2016 academic year. Both national and international students can apply for these scholarships. Scholarships to college juniors, seniors and graduate students are offered in the amount of $1,500. Candidates must demonstrate academic achievement and involvement in extracurricular activities. The applications deadline is December 9, 2015.
Study Subject(s): Scholarships are awarded in the field of chemical engineering, material science or engineering, mechanical engineering, metallurgical engineering, environmental engineering or chemistry.
Course Level: Scholarships are available for undergraduate and graduate students attending an accredited college.
Scholarship Provider: The National Association for Surface Finishing (NASF), USA
Scholarship can be taken at: USA
Course Level: Scholarships are available for undergraduate and graduate students attending an accredited college.
Scholarship Provider: The National Association for Surface Finishing (NASF), USA
Scholarship can be taken at: USA
Eligibility:
-The scholarship award is available to both undergraduates and graduates.
-Undergraduate applicants must be junior standing or above when applying and must be of senior standing for the 2015-2016 academic year.
-Undergraduate and graduate students must be studying in chemical engineering, material science or engineering, mechanical engineering, metallurgical engineering, environmental engineering, or chemistry.
-The applicant must be attending an accredited college.
-There are no geographic limitations. Both national and international applicants are urged to apply.
-The scholarship award is available to both undergraduates and graduates.
-Undergraduate applicants must be junior standing or above when applying and must be of senior standing for the 2015-2016 academic year.
-Undergraduate and graduate students must be studying in chemical engineering, material science or engineering, mechanical engineering, metallurgical engineering, environmental engineering, or chemistry.
-The applicant must be attending an accredited college.
-There are no geographic limitations. Both national and international applicants are urged to apply.
Scholarship Open for International Students: Both national and international students can apply for these NASF scholarships.
Scholarship Description: NASF’s educational foundation remains committed to helping undergraduate and graduate students interested in studying chemical engineering, material science or engineering, mechanical engineering, metallurgical engineering, environmental engineering or chemistry. Scholarships to college juniors, seniors and graduate students are offered in the amount of $1,500. Candidates must demonstrate academic achievement and involvement in extracurricular activities. Awards will be given for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Number of award(s): Not Known
Duration of award(s): Not Known
What does it cover? Undergraduate and Graduate awards are $1,500.00 USD.
Selection Criteria: Applicants are judged on the four major factors: (1) academic record, (2) personal statement, (3) working experience, and (4) extracurricular activities. Note that if an applicant proposes a research project, make sure to clearly state the project objective, approach, and anticipated results.
Notification: The AESF Foundation will notify the award winners by December 31, 2015.
How to Apply: Application packages (including a completed application form and all requested materials) should be mailed. An applicant need to include the following in an application:
-A statement describing the applicant’s career objective and an intended plan of study and/or research in plating and surface finishing science and engineering (Limit: 2 typed pages).
-A resume detailing the applicant’s academic achievements (Limit: 2 typed pages).
-Two recommendation letters from professors and, if working in a company, employers. Note that one letter must be from an academic advisor.
-An official copy of the most recent undergraduate or graduate transcript (to be sealed by the academic institution where the applicant attends).
Please note: All documents must be in English or have an English translation attached.
-A statement describing the applicant’s career objective and an intended plan of study and/or research in plating and surface finishing science and engineering (Limit: 2 typed pages).
-A resume detailing the applicant’s academic achievements (Limit: 2 typed pages).
-Two recommendation letters from professors and, if working in a company, employers. Note that one letter must be from an academic advisor.
-An official copy of the most recent undergraduate or graduate transcript (to be sealed by the academic institution where the applicant attends).
Please note: All documents must be in English or have an English translation attached.
Scholarship Application Deadline: The deadline for submitting applications is December 9, 2015.
Visual sensor networks can be characterized by wireless battery-operated sensing nodes that are empowered with sight and are capable of complex visual analysis tasks. Since each node has severe energy constraints, it is imperative to optimize the computation, coding and communication of visual data. One promising approach is to reverse the conventional compress-than-analyze paradigm. In this case, image features are collected by sensing nodes, processed, and delivered to final destination(s) to enable higher level visual analysis tasks by means of either centralized or distributed classifiers. The MSP (Multimedia Signal Processing) group participates in the Green Eyes project, a European Union FP7 FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) project that tackles the encoding and transmission of visual features in resource constrained sensor networks. The positions available regard the development of the novel feature coding schemes to support the joint analyze-and-compress paradigm in visual sensor networks and the demonstration and validation of the results achieved by means of a working prototype on a real wireless sensor node platform. In this context, the techniques for feature extraction and coding must support the energy and bandwidth constraints of the sensing nodes without a significant impact in terms of analysis task efficiency.
