Two University of Colorado at Boulder doctoral students in the College of Engineering and Applied Science have been awarded 1998-99 IBM Cooperative Fellowships.
The fellowships provide the students with a tuition reimbursement, a stipend and the opportunity to gain research and development experience working with industrial scientists at IBM.
The awardees are Anandaroop Bhattacharya of mechanical engineering and Han Lee of computer science. The two were among 50 students worldwide to receive IBM cooperative fellowships made by the international corporation's University Relations Department.
"We are delighted that two of our students have received these highly sought-after fellowships," said Associate Dean Michael Lightner of ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder's engineering college. "The experience they will gain is invaluable, and the collaboration with IBM points up our growing university-industry partnerships that better prepare our students to hit the ground running in the high-tech workplace."
IBM recently donated an IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer to ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder, valued at nearly $1 million, to support research by students and faculty in applied mathematics and computer science, said Lightner.
"This is a highly competitive, prestigious award and these appointments reflect extremely well on the students and ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder," said Carolyn Maher, IBM Boulder senior location manager. "They also reflect the growing research relationship between IBM and the university."
Bhattacharya has completed his first year of doctoral study at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä in the mechanical engineering department. His research at the college's Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Packing of Microwave, Optical and Digital Electronics focuses on new ways to dissipate heat generated through the large-scale integration of electronic circuits.
Han Lee is beginning the second year of his doctoral program in computer science, studying a form of Java programming that allows computer scientists to build customized tools for Java Virtual Machine technology. Lee's research is helping researchers optimize algorithms used with Java to solve mathematical problems.
Other recipients include doctoral students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of California-Berkeley, Cornell University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.