GOALI: Integrating Industry Perspectives into University Research by Creating Teams of Academic-Industry Technology Specialists

这项GOALI学术联络机会(GOALI)提供资金，以创建四个不同的团队，将马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的教职员工和研究生学者与Kollmorgen技术专家结合起来，将后者带到校园进行为期两个月的全职任务，然后进行六个月的兼职互动。每个团队都将专注于一项不同的技术，利用现有的联盟来推进创新概念，这些概念可以作为其他机构在产业界和学术界之间建立更紧密联系的典范。将开展的技术领域包括：(1)运动技术-部件和系统；(2)数字视频处理；(3)成像传感器；(4)人机界面；(5)实时软件、嵌入式计算机和逻辑设备；以及(6)先进结构和材料。行业/学术团队将向教师和学生展示行业视角和市场工程师所需的综合技能。该大学将获得短期研究参与者，他们已被Kollmorgen指定为项目期间进行的技术方面的内部专家。实验室中行业专家的存在和综合项目的支持将成为教师和研究生团队拓宽他们的范围并同时考虑研究应用的催化剂。行业常驻和团队创建计划旨在帮助弥合快速变化的技术领域中实践和学术之间的差距。这项研究包括一个评估部分，以审查九个月和十八个月进步点的工作里程碑。吸取的经验教训将与其他研究和学术组织分享，在此基础上建立长期研究和支持模式。

This Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) provides funding to create four different teams combining faculty and graduate student scholars at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with Kollmorgen Technology Specialists by bringing the latter to the campus for a two month, full time assignment at the University and subsequent six month period of part-time interaction. Each team will focus on a different technology taking advantage of an existing alliance to advance innovative concepts that could serve as a model for other institutions in developing stronger ties between industry and academe. The technical areas to be undertaken will include: (1) Motion Technology-Components and Systems; (2) Digital Video Processing; (3) Imaging Sensors; (4) Human-Machine Interfaces; (5) Real Time Software, Embedded Computer and Logic Devices; and (6) Advanced Structures and Materials. Industry/Academic teams will expose faculty and students in the industry perspective and the integrative skills needed by engineers in the market. The University will gain short-term research participants who have been designated by Kollmorgen to be in-house experts in the technologies undertaken during the project. The presence of industry specialists in the laboratories and the integrative program support will act as a catalyst for faculty and graduate student teams to broaden their scope and consideration of research applications at the same time. The industry residency and team creation program is designed to help bridge the gap between practice and scholarship in rapidly changing fields of technology. The research includes an assessment component to examine the milestones of the effort at the nine-month and eighteen-month points of progress. The lessons learned will be shared with other research and academic organizations upon which to build long term research and support models.