IMS 2009 MTT-S Student Paper and Design Competitions
Matt Morton, IMS 2009 Virtual Participation Committee

The Student Paper Competition has become one of the largest events at IMS. The purpose of the competition is to determine and acknowledge the best student work of the year in the MTT-S. In the same venue as the Student Paper Competition, the Technical Coordinating Committees of MTT-S will be sponsoring three Student Design Competitions. This year the Student Design Competition topics are high efficiency power amplifier, low noise amplifier, and packaged ultra-wide-band filter. These topics are geared toward the practical applications that working engineers face everyday and therefore represent an excellent opportunity for students to show off how well prepared they are for a professional career.

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Paper Submission Guidelines

Note: the paper submission and student competition deadlines are just around the corner — on December 8!!! Technology papers for this symposium must be submitted via the IMS 2009 website, www.ims2009.org. Complete information on how to submit a paper and register for conference, as well as other important information, can be found at http://www.ims2009.org/cfp.html.

IMS 2009 Paper Submissions: Down to Crunch Time
Mark Gouker & Larry Kushner, TPC Co-Chairs
The Web site for submitting papers is open and receiving papers. There are only a few days left before the Dec 8th deadline,so submit your papers now to avoid the last minute crunch and the oversights that sometime come along with last minute submissions. In this issue we will describe the revamped Microwave Week schedule. We have found a way to allow more time for attending technical papers, visiting the industrial exhibit and interacting with colleagues — almost like adding more hours to the day!

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Tektronix and Mesuro: A cultivation of ideas through to products and the birth of a company at MTT-S IMS
Darren McCarthy,
Worldwide RF Technical Marketing Manager, Tektronix
At Tektronix, we believe the MTT-S IMS show reflects a representative collection of our RF/uWave customer base. You have research and academia mixing with industries and applications across the entire spectrum of test. We see commercial and defense industries well represented. While MTT-S IMS is a North American tradeshow, it does provide a good perspective on international test challenges due to the breadth of attendees that travel to the show.

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Introducing the IMS 2009 Facebook Group

Facebook is an social networking website launched in early 2004 that allows users to join networks organized by various affiliations such as school, city, workplace, and organization in order to connect and interact with other people. Using Facebook, people can add "friends," send them messages and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves. Through Facebook, users can connect to new people who are friends of friends.

IMS 2009 Registration Chair, Jeremy Muldavin made a Facebook page for attendees. This group is for people who will be part of the 2009 IEEE International Microwave Symposium in Boston, MA on June 7-12, 2009. Join up if you want to see who else might be coming, arrange some meet-ups at the conference, share info on fun things to do while in the area, and keep up with new events at the conference.

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