Publishing and Travel to National/International Conferences

These days, companies such as Motorola and Intel expect (and strongly encourage) their engineers/employees to publish their work. Publishing is great publicity for the company and it is used as another way to assess performance. Motorola, for example, has a highly publicized financial reward system for their employees. I have several former students at Motorola who get around $1K per paper! Pretty great incentive when you add the travel, hotel, and conference expenses! After attending Motorola's Silver Quill banquet - where they honor Motorolans who have published - I feel strongly that it is necessary for us to encourage our students to publish early on.

Given this industry trend, participating MoSART students will be expected to publish their work in refereed journals as well as in the proceedings of national and international conferences. Productive students will be encouraged (with funding) to attend conference (e.g.American Control Conference, COnference on Decision and Control). Recently, I send a student to Greece to present his work at the 5th IEEE Mediteranean Conference on Controls.

General Skills

Participating students will develop a myriad of skills which will be useful after graduation - whether they pursue positions in industry or graduate degrees. Please let students know. Working on such projects will be an excellent opportunity.