Both Michael McLain of Arizona State University and Marta Bagatin of University of Padova were presented with the Phelps Grant. The grant included tuition for the short course and a check for $750.

The purpose of the Phelps Grant is to promote continuing education and encourage membership in the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS).

The basis for judging is exceptional promise as a graduate student working in the fields of the NPSS, "exceptionally good work" in those fields, and an expectation that attendance at an NPSS-sponsored short course will result in an improved possibility of obtaining a job.

Professors should consider nominating their most promising students before January 31, 2010. Forms can be found on the NSREC web site http://www.nsrec.com/phelpsgrant.pdf or http://www.nsrec.com/phelpsgrant.doc.

Michael McLain graduated with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 2004 and with an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University in 2006. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University under the guidance of Dr. Hugh Barnaby. His research interests include semiconductor device physics, hostile environment effects (i.e. radiation and extreme temperature) on electronics, and radiation-aware compact modeling. Michael has authored/co-authored over ten refereed conference and journal papers. He is also a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu engineering honor societies, and is a former recipient of the ARCS scholar award and Fulton Fellowship.

Marta Bagatin received the Laurea degree (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2006. Since January, 2007, she is following the Ph.D. School in Information Science and Technology at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova. Her research interests concern radiation and reliability effects on electronic devices, especially on volatile and nonvolatile semiconductor memories. In particular, she is studying radiation effects, both TID and SEE, on Flash memories, analyzing the susceptibility of all the functional blocks in the device. Besides, concerning SRAM, she’s interested in how aspects like temperature and aging can affect the soft error sensitivity of the memory cell, through radiation tests, analytical modeling, and simulations. The results of her work were recognized with the Outstanding Student Paper Award at NSREC 2008 and the Best Student Presentation Award at RADECS 2008.

 

Peter S. Winokur has been awarded the 2009 Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member Award. His citation for this award is "For outstanding contributions to the leadership of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society and the IEEE NPSS Radiation Effects Committee."

Dan M. Fleetwood has been awarded the 2009 IEEE Merit Award.

"For contributions to the understanding of radiation effects in microelectronic devices and materials."
  

Dennis Brown has been awarded the 2009 NPSS Fellow award.

"For contributions to radiation effects in semiconductor devices for space microelectronics."
  

Single-Event Upsets and Multiple-Bit Upsets on a 45 nm SOI SRAM, D. F. Heidel, P. W. Marshall, J. A. Pellish, K. P. Rodbell, K. A. LaBel, J. R. Schwank, S. E. Rauch, M. Hakey, M. D. Berg, C. Castaneda, P. E. Dodd, M. R. Friendlich, A. D. Phan, C. M. Seidleck, M. R. Shaneyfelt and M. A. Xapsos are the recipients of the Outstanding Conference Paper Award for the 2009 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference.

Single Event Effects Compendium of Candidate Spacecraft Electronics for NASA, M. V. O’Bryan, K. A. LaBel, S. P. Buchner, R. L. Ladbury, T. R. Oldham, H. S. Kim, M. J. Campola, J.-M. Lauenstein, D. Chen, M. D. Berg, A. B. Sanders, J. A. Pellish, P. W. Marshall, C. J. Marshall, M. A. Xapsos, K. Kruckmeyer, M. Leftwich, M. Leftwich, and J. M. Benedetto are the recipients of the Data Workshop Presentation Award for the 2009 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference.

Error Instability in Floating Gate Flash Memories Exposed to TID, M. Bagatin, S. Gerardin, G. Cellere, A. Paccagnella, A. Visconti, M. Bonanomi, and S. Beltrami are the recipients of the Outstanding Student Paper Award for the 2009 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference.

Nick van Vonno receives the 2009 NSREC Radiation Effects Award.

"For contributions to the design, development, and manufacture of radiation-hardened integrated circuits that have been used in critical space and defense systems."

Nick van Vonno

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