Web Handling Research Center

自1985年以来，俄克拉荷马州立大学的网络处理研究中心一直是一个非常可行和成功的I/UCRC。该中心的研究集中在“网”上，这是一种以连续柔性条形制造和加工的材料，包括纸、塑料、纺织品、金属和复合材料。Web技术以某种方式应用于几乎所有的连续过程工业。该中心的研究工作主要集中在以下几个方面：1)纵向动力学；2)横向动力学；3)收放卷；4)起皱;5)物理性质的测量；6)控制策略。该中心已发展到15家企业赞助商，并在六年内从诺布尔基金会获得了90万美元的赠款，用于设备和研究生奖学金支持。中心在其生命周期中非常有效地利用其工业咨询委员会来帮助确定和指导其研究，最近开始集中精力进行技术转让。这些努力包括在赞助者的工厂举办研讨会，并向中心赞助者提供一次由卫星传送的现场互动电话会议。该中心显然是一个有效的I/UCRC中心，满足该计划的所有要求。项目经理建议俄克拉荷马州立大学在为期三年的自给自足的研究伙伴关系中，第一年获得33,000美元的奖励，8,000美元用于支持中心的评估人员一年，10,000美元用于支持两名女本科生，“支持女性，少数民族和残疾人工程研究助理的资金”。总共51,000美元。在每12个月结束时，项目经理和/或工程中心部门的部门主管将根据以下标准审查中心的进展情况：1)大学/行业互动和合作的发展程度；2)中心支持基础扩大的程度；3)强有力的研究项目正在发展的程度。如果评审结果令人满意，项目经理将建议支持该持续拨款的下一阶段。

The Web Handling Research Center at Oklahoma State University has been a very viable and successful I/UCRC since 1985. The Center's research concentrates on "Webs", which are materials that are manufactured and processed in continuous flexible, strip form, and includes paper, plastics, textiles, metals, and composites. Web technology is used in almost every continuous process industry in some way. The Center's research efforts are in the areas of: 1) longitudinal dynamics; 2) lateral dynamics; 3) winding and unwinding; 4) wrinkling; 5) measurement of physical properties, and 6) control strategies. The Center has grown to 15 corporate sponsors, and has received a grant of $900,000 over six years from the Noble Foundation for equipment and graduate fellowship support. The Center has used its Industrial Advisory Board very effectively over its lifetime to help define and direct its research, and recently began to concentrate efforts on technology transfer. These efforts have included seminars in sponsors' plants and a live interactive satellite-delivered teleconference delivered to the Center sponsors. The Center is clearly an effective I/UCRC Center and meets all the requirements for the program. The Program Manager recommends that Oklahoma State University be awarded $33,000 for the first year of a three-year, Self-Sufficient Partnership for Research, $8,000 for the support of an evaluator in the Center for one year, and $10,000 for the support of two female undergraduate students under the "Funding for Support for Woman, Minority, and Disabled Engineering Research Assistants, for a total of $51,000. Near the end of each 12-month period, the Program Manager and/or the Division Director of the Engineering Centers Division will review the progress of the Center on a number of criteria, including the following: 1) extent to which University/Industry interaction and collaboration is developing; 2) extent to which the support base for the Center is expanding; 3) extent to which robust research program is developing. If the review is satisfactory, the Program Manager will recommend support of the next period of this continuing grant.