An Engineering Research Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems - CenSSIS

地下传感和成像系统工程研究中心 - CenSSIS

• 批准号: 9986821
• 负责人: Michael Silevitch
• 金额: $ 3313.85万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-01 至 2013-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9986821&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engineering; Research; Center; Subsurface; Sensing

The Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems seeks to revolutionize our ability to detect and image objects or conditions that are underground, underwater, or embedded in the human body. Northeastern University has formed a partnership between with Boston University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez and four affiliated hospitals and research institutions (Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute).The center will focus on difficult and intractable problems in sensing and imaging involving detecting and locating and identifying objects that are obscured beneath covering media. Mapping plumes underground, detecting a tumor under the skin, and identifying developmental defects in the interior of an embryo all share the problem of distinguishing the effect of a dispersive, diffusive, and absorptive medium from the desired details of the sursurface structure and functionality. The problem is similar whether the wave problem is electromagnetic or acoustic, whether the medium is soil or tissue, or whether the target is a land mine or a tumor. To address these research barriers the center will focus its interdisciplinary research thrusts on Subsurface Sensing and Modeling, Physics-based Signal Processing and Image Understanding, and Data and Image Information management. Systems testbeds will be used to enable a wide range of next-generation sensing and imaging systems.The Center will create a new team-based learning environment for students, with research internship experiences in industry. The ERC will develop new discovery-based, educational laboratories for each campus involved, putting modern imaging technology in the hands of undergraduates early in their education to solve real, open-ended problems. The ERC will develop undergraduate educational modules in sensing and imaging systems and interdisciplinary, team-taught graduate courses and seminars derived from the ERC's research. Middle and high school students will be impacted by the ERC through design competitions in sensing and imaging systems and summer pre-engineering programs.The goals of the industrial partnership program are to gain industrial insight into the research challenges, to speed technology transfer to industry, and to help the center graduate engineers and scientists who are familiar with technology and industrial practice, better prepare to be successful in industry and academe.This award provides $2.6 million for the first year of NSF support to the ERC through a five-year cooperative agreement, which is renewable in year three and in year six.

地下传感和成像系统工程研究中心（ERC）旨在彻底改变我们探测和成像地下、水下或嵌入人体的物体或条件的能力。东北大学与波士顿大学、伦斯勒理工学院、波多黎各大学马亚圭斯分校以及四家附属医院和研究机构（马萨诸塞州总医院、布里格姆妇女医院、劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室和伍兹霍尔海洋研究所）建立了合作关系。该中心将专注于传感和成像方面的困难和棘手问题，包括检测、定位和识别在覆盖介质下被遮挡的物体。绘制地下羽流，检测皮肤下的肿瘤，识别胚胎内部的发育缺陷，所有这些都面临着一个共同的问题，即从表面结构和功能的所需细节中区分分散、扩散和吸收介质的影响。无论波的问题是电磁的还是声学的，无论介质是土壤还是组织，无论目标是地雷还是肿瘤，问题都是类似的。为了解决这些研究障碍，该中心将把其跨学科研究重点放在地下传感和建模、基于物理的信号处理和图像理解以及数据和图像信息管理上。系统测试平台将用于实现广泛的下一代传感和成像系统。该中心将为学生创造一个新的以团队为基础的学习环境，并在行业中进行研究实习。ERC将为每个参与的校园开发新的以发现为基础的教育实验室，将现代成像技术交到大学生手中，以解决真正的开放式问题。ERC将开发传感和成像系统的本科教育模块，以及跨学科、团队授课的研究生课程和研讨会，这些都来源于ERC的研究。初中生和高中生将通过传感和成像系统的设计竞赛和夏季预工程项目受到ERC的影响。工业伙伴计划的目标是获得对研究挑战的工业洞察力，加快技术向工业的转移，并帮助中心毕业的工程师和科学家熟悉技术和工业实践，更好地为在工业和学术界取得成功做好准备。该奖项通过一项为期五年的合作协议，为NSF第一年向ERC提供260万美元的支持，该协议可在第三年和第六年续签。