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About the Harvey Rosten Award For Excellence

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Eligibility
 To be eligible, the work has to be:
  1. Original
  1. In the public domain. This includes:
    • papers presented at conferences
    • papers appearing in journals
    • other original work, documented in some publicly-available form, such as a research thesis.
  1. Made publicly-available during the 12 months prior to the cut off date for nominations
    • the cut-off date for nominations is October 15th each year
  1. Relevant. The work should:
    • be primarily concerned with advances in thermal analysis or thermal modeling of electronics equipment or components, including experiments aimed specifically at validating numerical models.
    • have a clear application to practical electronics thermal design.


    Favorable consideration will be given to work that demonstrates:

    • insight into the physical processes affecting the thermal behavior of electronics components/parts/system
    • an innovative approach to embodying this understanding
    • practical application of the advance

  Selection Process

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Eligible works are scored by the members of the Selection Committee against the criteria below.

 
  Selection Criteria
 Eligible works are scored out of 10 against each of the five following dimensions:
    Context: Work represents an advance in thermal analysis or thermal modeling of electronics equipment or components, including experiments aimed specifically at validating numerical models

    Relevance: Work demonstrates clear application to practical electronics design

    Physical Insight: Work demonstrates insight into the physical processes affecting the thermal behavior of electronics components, parts and systems

    Innovation: Work is innovative in embodying this understanding in either thermal analysis or thermal modeling

    Pragmatic: A pragmatic approach is taken in the application of the work.

Giving a total score out of 50. The work with the highest average score wins.

 

Notification of Winner

 

The author(s) of the winning paper is(are) notified by the Selection Committee.

 
Presentation of the Award
 The presentation is made to the author. In case of co-authored papers, the presentation would normally be made to the leading author.

This year's Award will presented at the IEEE SEMI-THERM Symposium early next year. For more information on the SEMI-THERM Symposium visit the SEMI-THERM home page at http://www.semi-therm.com

 

Funding

 

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 The Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence is supported by an endowment fund in Harvey's honor.

Contributions to the fund may be made to:

The Harvey Rosten Memorial Fund
c/o Esther Rosten
148 Elm Road
New Malden
Surrey, KT3 3HT
UK


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