CDMA Development Group Presents Scholarships to University of California, San Diego Students; Three Students Receive $1,000 Scholarships for CDMA Engineering Certificate Program.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 2001 Continuing its long-standing commitment to education, the CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. Development Group (CDG (CDMA Development Group, Costa Mesa, CA, www.cdg.org) A membership organization founded in 1995 that promotes CDMA wireless systems worldwide. It is involved with developing new features and services and promoting standards that provide global compatibility and interoperability. ) (www.cdg.org) today announced the recipients of its annual educational scholarships. Students Douglas Charles Evans For other persons named Charles Evans, see Charles Evans (disambiguation). Sir Robert Charles Evans M.D., DSc, (19 October 1918 - 5 December 1995), was a mountaineer, surgeon, and educator. Born in Liverpool, he was raised in Wales and became a fluent Welsh speaker. , Anantha Lakshmi Tayyebi and Jeff Douglas Uebele will each be awarded $1,000 to be used toward tuition for the University of California, San Diego UCSD is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities for undergraduate education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.[3] It is a Public Ivy. [1] For graduate studies, most of UCSD's Ph.D. (UCSD UCSD University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California) UCSD User Centered System Design UCSD Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District (Illinois) UCSD Ultra Cool Sexy Dudes ) Extension certificate program in CDMA Engineering. Scholarship recipients were announced during the opening session of the 2001 CDMA Americas Congress being held Oct. 31-Nov. 2 in San Diego. "The CDG's support of education is being demonstrated today through this scholarship program for students who will help to further develop CDMA technology, ensuring its future success," said Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDG. "These scholarship recipients have demonstrated their eagerness to continue their education through the UCSD Extension program, and we are pleased to help them achieve their goals." Evans is currently working with the Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT CCAT Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (Humboldt State University; Arcata, CA) CCAT Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope CCAT Canadian Cognitive Abilities Test CCAT Competition Commission Appeals Tribunal ), which fast-tracks government, industry and academic technologies that may have dual commercial and military use. He hopes the CDMA certificate will lead to a career supporting startup firms and investors in San Diego's telecom sector. Tayyebi is a software engineer with a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) is a coeducational public research university located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The University is celebrating its centennial year in 2007. . She sees the potential for wireless application development using CDMA technology and hopes to further her professional career with the knowledge gained in the CDMA program. Since graduating with a master's degree in engineering from Dalhousie University in September 2000, Uebele has been employed as an order engineer for Nortel Networks' wireline DMS (1) (Document Management System) See document management. (2) (Defense Messaging System) An X.500-compliant messaging system developed by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. switching products. He plans to complete the extension program at UCSD and seek a position as a wireless network engineer. Scholarship recipients were selected based on their interest in enhancing their careers by learning more about CDMA technology. Offered by UCSD Extension in the name of the CDG, the scholarships cover approximately one-half of the tuition cost for the university's specialized certificate program in CDMA engineering. The certificate program is designed to educate professionals in the fundamentals of CDMA engineering, and is available to individuals not currently employed in the wireless telecommunications industry. The CDMA Development Group is a nonprofit trade association formed to foster the worldwide development, implementation and use of CDMA. The 110 member companies of the CDG include many of the world's largest wireless operators and equipment manufacturers. The primary activities of the CDG include development of cdmaOne(TM) and IMT-2000 CDMA features and services, public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , education and seminars, regulatory affairs and international support. Currently, there are more than 500 individuals working within CDG subcommittees on second and third generation CDMA matters. For more information about the CDG, contact Valerie Christopherson of the CDG News Bureau at 714/540-1030 ext. 17, e-mail vchristopherson@bockpr.com, or visit the CDG Web site at http://www.cdg.org. Note to Editors: cdmaOne is a trademark of the CDG. |
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