The objective of this activity is to provide support for up to ten students from U.S. universities to attend the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS). The conference will be held August 28 - September 3, 2010 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, Hawaii. Three IEEE societies, AP-S, MTT-S, and ComSoc, are co-sponsoring the conference. The conference agenda includes five plenary sessions and over 20 technical sessions.
Intellectual Merit: The conference will provide a unique forum for leading researchers from different disciplines to meet and discuss a future vision for the wireless technology and define integrative approaches for addressing future research challenges. Topics covered by the conference include microwave devices, and components, antennas, propagation, and communications technologies such as digital signal processing, networking protocols, and networking infrastructure. Graduate student participation is very significant as they represent the future leadership in developing this technology.
Broader Impacts: Support for conference participation is open to U.S. students who are currently enrolled in a Ph.D. degree program through a nation-wide competition. Submission to the travel support competition from underrepresented minority students and women is encouraged. Student participation at the conference will help with maintaining and fostering a pool a trained engineers and scientists in microwave engineering, antennas, and wireless communications. The conference proceedings will be published and distributed on CD and also posted on the IEEE Xplore. This will help with the broader dissemination of the information presented and topics discussed in the conference.
The purpose of this grant was to support students participation in the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS), November 11-16, in Maui, Hawaii. This was a four-day conference and included plenary sessions, contributed papers, and educational short courses held at the begging and the end of the conference. More than 240 papers were submitted for possible presentation, about 180 were accepted and scheduled in four parallel sessions during the conference. Four plenary sessions were also organized and distinguished colleagues from NSf as well as from the distinguished lecturers programs in IEEE were invited to participate in these plenary sessions. Attached is a copy of the advanced program that was published prior to the conference. The conference proceedings was published on a CDROM and final version of this proceedings was published in the IEEE Xplore. As for the NSF funds, it was totally used to support students participation (travel and registration) in the conference. Eight students benefitted from the NSF grant. Major conference contributions in submitted and invited papers were in the technical areas on Green Energy Technologies, Metamaterials, Antennas, propagation modeling, and biomedical applications of electromagnetic technologies. Five workshops/short courses were also organized on metamaterials, antenna array design, adaptive array, and antenna design for mobile wireless designs.
