Each year the Electronic Document Systems Foundation sponsors research grants to give students an opportunity to conduct research on subjects of interest to the document management and graphic communications industry. Students work in collaboration with professors and EDSF-appointed mentors.
If you are interested in the EDSF Research Grant Program visit the EDSF's Website and download a Research Grant Application Packet. While you're at the site, check out the current research and a list of past academic research white papers.
The grant application deadline for this year is November 25, 2008.
If you know a student studying within the document management and graphic communications industry make sure they know about this program.
Discussion
By Patrick Henry on Oct 24, 2008
I had the privilege of mentoring a team of EDSF grant recipients at Pittsburg State University (Pittsburg, KS), earlier this year. Under the direction of Prof. Jesus J. Rodriguez, the students--Prathamesh Hajirnis, Purushottam Deo, and Rohan Ratnapal--conducted significant new research aimed at identifying an effective color gamut for transpromotional documents. The students presented their findings at the recent TransPromo Summit in New York, and I'll be doing a WhatTheyThink video interview with the team at Graph Expo next week.
I urge everyone with academic contacts to promote the EDSF Research Grant Program to students in graphic communication studies programs. The grants, awarded selectively by a reviewing panel of industry experts, have supported original and important research into document management and related subjects at colleges and universities around the world. In my opinion, the EDSF grant program is a critical link between the long-term goals of the industry and the academic institutions we depend on to furnish the talent that achieving those goals will require.
Mentoring the Pittsburg State team was a truly rewarding experience, and if you'd like to know more about the process, please contact me. Watch for the team's research paper to be published soon at the EDSF Web site, and watch for the interview with the students and Dr. Rodriguez from Graph Expo next week.
By Jesus J. Rodriguez on Oct 28, 2008
I have had the privilege of working with two three person teams on two separate occasions when conducting applied research under the support of EDSF. The experience is a win-win experience for the students as they feel the sense of working together, starting something and finishing it. For this Transpromo research most recently worked on much exposure has come the students' way.
I encourage any and all programs to develop proposals which can enhance the students' experience as well as put the name of the university up front.
All in all it is a way to contribute to a most exciting, dynamic and everlasting industry that contributes to the well-being of our civilization and gives credence to our culture.
You have nothing to lose.