Student Travel Support for Transducers 01, The 2001 International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators in Munich, Germany, June 10-14, 2001

2001年关于固态传感器和执行器的国际会议是一次重要的机会，可以对微结构制造和微电子机械系统的发展的最新技术状况有所了解。第十一届固态传感器和执行器国际会议(Transducers‘01)将于2001年6月10日至14日在德国慕尼黑举行。Transducers是两年一度的会议，重点讨论固态传感器、执行器和微系统的理论、设计、制造和应用。这是一个跨学科的聚会，与会者来自大学、政府和工业实验室，代表不同的领域：电气工程、机械工程、材料科学、生物医学工程、物理、生物、化学和微电子。我们建议为来自北美的论文的学生作者提供部分旅行赞助参加这次会议。这些学生作者是从竞争非常激烈的摘要投稿池中挑选出来的，他们代表了MEMS社区中最有才华的年轻成员。这些学生将前往会议介绍他们自己的作品，然后在本周剩余的时间里参加演讲和讨论，收集关于会议上揭示的最重要突破性技术的信息。许多制造和集成技术与由NSF电子和控制系统办公室资助的技术和应用程序直接相关。每个学生都要写一份简短的报告，描述他们在会议上学到的重要技术，这些将被写成一份提交给NSF的总结报告，重点介绍这个社区的新趋势，其他国家发起的重要推动，以及美国技术基础具有优势或劣势的领域。我们申请的资金将允许来自北美不同机构的大约12名学生作者获得部分旅行支持。

The 2001 International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators represents animportant opportunity to capture a perspective on the current state of the art in microstructurefabrication and the development of MicroElectroMechanical Systems. The 11th InternationalConference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers '01) will be held in Munich,Germany, from June 10-14, 2001.Transducers is a biennial conference focusing on theory, design, fabrication, andapplication of solid-state sensors, actuators, and microsystems. It is an interdisciplinary gatheringwith participants from university, government, and industrial laboratories representing diversecross spectrum of fields: electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science,biomedical engineering, physics, biology, chemistry, and microelectronics.We propose to partially sponsor travel for student authors of papers from North Americato this conference. These student authors have been selected from a very competitive pool ofabstract submissions, and represent the most talented young members of the MEMS community.These students will travel to the conference to present their own work, and then spend theremainder of the week attending presentations and discussions, gathering information on themost important breakthrough technologies revealed at the conference. Much of the fabricationand integration technology is of direct relevance to technologies and applications funded throughNSF Electronics and Controls Systems office. Each of these students will write a brief reportdescribing the important technologies they learned about at the conference, and these will begathered into a summary report to NSF highlighting new trends in this community, importantthrusts initiated by other countries, and areas where the US technological base holds advantagesor disadvantages.The funding that we request will allow partial travel support for approximately 12 studentauthors from various institutions in North America.