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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2006-)
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Team on 28 April 2008
Analogue design prize honours retired
Chairman
Valued at US $150,000, the Engibous Prize is the largest of its kind, and will be awarded to students from Asia, Europe and North America.
The Engibous Prize is a new annual award from Texas Instruments for engineering students who design the most innovative electronic systems using analogue semiconductors Valued at US $150,000, the prize is the largest of its kind, and will be awarded in three regions of the world - Asia, Europe and North America
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The prize is named for recently retired TI Chairman, Tom Engibous, who began his career in 1976 as an analogue design engineer and retired in 2008 as chairman.
Under his leadership, TI became the world leader in analogue semiconductors.
As CEO and Chairman, Engibous took a personal interest in encouraging engineering students to pursue studies and careers in analogue design.
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He has often spoken of how an increasingly digital world ironically needs more analogue circuitry in order to translate real-world signals into the ones and zeros of digital processing.
But the number of electrical engineering graduates who focus on the analogue aspect of semiconductor and equipment design is small compared with the need.
"A shortage of talented students in analogue could become the single most limiting factor in electronics innovations of the future", says Gregg Lowe, TI Senior Vice President and leader of the company's analogue business unit.
To address this need, the company established an analogue university programme more than a decade ago.
Lowe continued: "TI's analogue university programme, and now with addition of the Engibous Prize, is our way to contribute toward the training of thousands of analogue engineers, positively impacting TI's future customers and employees".
The Engibous Prize will be presented in North America in 2008 and the programme will be expanded to other regions of the world in 2009.
Winners will be selected from participants in TI's Analogue Design Contest.
Engibous chose to join TI because the company afforded him the opportunity to design analogue chips right out of college.
He remembers designing his first analogue chip that drove electronic displays on gas pumps.
After completing the design and receiving the sample chip, he stayed in the lab testing the device night and day, without sleep.
"The moment I confirmed that the chip actually worked was one of the most thrilling of my early career", Engibous said.
As part of their senior design coursework, many electrical engineering students complete an end-equipment design.
This contest enables students to receive free TI analogue product samples and evaluation modules for their senior design project.
The prize provides additional motivation to demonstrate the highest level of engineering analysis, originality, quality and creativity in designs using a variety of TI analogue integrated circuits.
Engibous Prize eligibility is limited to winning teams at select universities currently participating in TI's Analogue Design Contest.
The winning teams from such select universities will be automatically entered for Engibous Prize consideration starting from 31st May 2008.
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