Award Information
Established in 2019, this award will recognize and honor SSCS members in their early/mid-career, who are making significant contributions to education in the field of solid-state circuits using innovative approaches. The award aims to highlight distinguished and unique educational methods or programs that have a broad impact on the education of our community. Some examples include, but are not limited to, education with outreach beyond the candidate’s institution, unique teaching methods via a variety of media more appealing to the current and future generations of students, motivational lab development, open source textbooks or lectures, open-source software development, instruction that reaches out to high-school students and teachers, and programs geared toward a broad group of students, among others.
Those who receive this award must be a current SSCS Member in good standing.
One award will be given annually, but only if a suitable awardee is identified. The award’s cash prize may be split among multiple recipients. The winner of this award will receive a plaque and honorarium of $5,000.
The call for nominations will be made in our primary member communications, the Solid-State Circuits Magazine and Society Newsletter, or other member-wide communications tool that may be employed in the future. The nomination package consists of: (1) a one to two-page description of the candidate’s current educational contributions in the field of solid-state circuits; (2) a list of publications, classes or programs that support the nomination; (3) a maximum of three letters of recommendation from people familiar with the candidate’s educational contributions.
This award will be managed by the SSCS Awards Committee, which consists of an appointed Chair, who will select additional members of the Committee or appoint sub-committees as needed to manage the award winner selection.
Award candidates will be accepted during the year prior to the year the award is to be presented. The deadline for submissions is October 15, 11:59 p.m. ET. The winner of the award will be notified in the year prior to the year the award is to be presented to allow the recipient to prepare travel arrangements to the conference where he/she has chosen to receive the award.
This award will be presented at the plenary session of one of the SSCS financially sponsored conferences, at the choice of the recipient.
Important Dates and Deadlines
The next award cycle is expected to begin in the third quarter. Watch your email, social media, and our website for details! If you have any questions, please use the form here.
Submission Instructions
A platform called OpenWater is required to upload nomination packages. For detailed instructions on how to use the OpenWater platform, click here.
The following materials must be uploaded as part of the nomination package:
- A one to two-page description of the candidate’s current contributions and the vision of his or her research and development and how it will advance the field of solid-state circuits (PDF only, 25 MB Max)
- A list of the candidate’s publications or patents to support this nomination (PDF only, 25 MB Max)
In addition, letters of recommendation must be submitted (maximum of three letters, PDF only, 25 MB Max). The nominator will submit names of those providing a letter of recommendation in the OpenWater system, and then the OpenWater system will send an email to those people asking them to upload their letter of recommendation.
Nominators please note:
Awards are governed by the TAB Awards and Recongition Manual, and the IEEE Policies. These include, but are not limited to:
1. Individuals serving on any board or committee involved at any stage of the recipient selection or approval process for an award shall be ineligible to receive, or act as a nominator or reference for that award. A list of SSCS Awards Committee members can be found at the top of this page, and a list of AdCom members can be found at the bottom of this page.
2. An individual shall receive only one award for a given achievement, unless the significance merits a higher award, which may be given in the following year or thereafter.
Past Recipients
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Kristofer S. J. Pister, University of California, Berkeley; Borivoje Nikolić, University of California, Berkeley; Ali M. Niknejad, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2022 | Behzad Razavi, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2021 | Dr. Payam Heydari, University of California, Irvine |
| 2020 | Professor Peter Kinget, Columbia University, New York |