Polymer Engineering Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison

这项计划拨款是在俄亥俄州立大学（OSU）建立先进聚合物和复合材料工程中心（CAPCE）的多机构聚合物工程中心（PEC）的第一步。这个提议的多机构I/UCRC是一个大学-工业-政府合作计划，旨在创造、整合、转移和应用聚合物工程和加工知识。其目的是提高设计和制造塑料部件或生产与塑料工业有关的制造和传感设备的公司的竞争力和效率。威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的工程聚合物工业联盟（EPIC）为PEC的教师及其工业合作者提供了一个正式的途径，共同制定研究议程，分享专业知识和资源，验证研究成果，培养优秀的劳动力，促进技术的双向转移。

This planning grant is the first step toward the setting up a multi-institutional Polymer Engineering Center (PEC) of the Center for Advanced Polymer and Composite Engineering (CAPCE) at the Ohio State University (OSU). This proposed multi-institutional I/UCRC is a university-industry-government collaborative initiative to create, integrate, transfer, and apply knowledge of polymer engineering and processing. It is aimed at enhancing the competitiveness and effectiveness of companies involved in design and manufacturing of plastic components or production of manufacturing and sensing equipment related to the plastics industry. The Engineering Polymer Industrial Consortium (EPIC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison provides a formal means for the PEC faculty and its industrial collaborators to jointly set up a research agenda, share expertise and resources, validate research outcome, educate a preeminent workforce, and facilitate two-way transfer of technology.