Engineering Scholarships Available for 42nd Design Automation Conference; Allows 20 Unemployed Engineers to Attend Premier Industry Conference.

BOULDER, Colo. -- The Design Automation Conference (DAC), the electronic design automation (EDA) industry's premier event, today announced it will offer the "Scholarship for Design Automation Conference (DAC) Alumni between Employment" program again this year.

The scholarship program, introduced last year, was created to ensure that as many as 20 qualified engineers without personal resources or corporate support are able to attend the premier industry conference. The 42nd DAC will be held Monday, June 13 through Friday, June 17, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif.

DAC scholarships, valued at approximately $400 each, will be awarded by lottery to eligible applicants. To be eligible, participants must have attended DAC in the past. In addition, consideration will be given to those who have participated in other electronic design automation (EDA) industry activities. Scholarships do not include transportation and housing. In the event that a scholarship recipient's situation should change prior to the conference, he or she will be asked to give up the scholarship so another applicant may attend.

DAC Scholarship Applications are being accepted now through Friday, May 6, via an online confidential questionnaire found on the DAC Web site at http://www.dac.com.

"The feedback for this program has been exceptional. Last year's recipients were very glad to be able to attend DAC," said Sharad Malik, the 2004 DAC chair, who oversees the DAC Engineering Scholarship program. "This is one of the ways that we are able to serve our community and it gives me great pleasure to be able to announce that the program is available again this year."

DAC offers a variety of registration options. For more details, visit the DAC Web site located at: http://www.dac.com.

About DAC

DAC is the annual event where the electronics design community meets for a week-long forum of information exchange on management practices, products, methodologies and processes. Attended by more than 10,500 developers, designers, researchers, managers and engineers from leading electronics companies and universities worldwide, it offers a robust technical program covering the industry's hottest trends. Its vibrant exhibit floor includes more than 225 companies, many of whom are startups just introducing their first products. The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM/SIGDA), the Circuits and Systems Society and Computer Aided Network Design Technical Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE/CASS/CANDE) and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium). More details about DAC are found at: www.dac.com.