Carolyn White, ME graduate student and PhD candidate (studying with Professor Albert P. Pisano) has been awarded the 2005 Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Fellowship in support of her thesis "Thin Film Shielding Alloys for Magnetic Field Modulation."

Founded in 1946, AFCEA International supports global security by providing an ethical environment that encourages a cooperative relationship among civil government agencies, the military and industry.

The AFCEA Educational Foundation is an independent non-profit tax-exempt public charity dedicated to providing educational incentives, opportunities and assistance for people engaged in information management, communications and intelligence efforts and fostering excellence in education particularly in the "hard sciences" disciplines related to C4I/IRM.

The mission of the Foundation is to support development of engineers and technical personnel through selective motivational awards, prizes and scholarships, grants for educational activities of unique and high value and professional educational programs.

The Foundation actively promotes opportunities for persons from groups under-represented in the fields of its interests.

The Executive Director of the AFCEA Educational Foundation, RADM Paul E.Tobin Jr. USN (Ret.), came to Berkeley on April 19, 2005 to present Carolyn White with a check for $15,000.