Conference: Progress in Precision Technical Conference, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, April 17-18, 2002

这笔赠款提供资金来制作将于 2002 年 4 月 17 日至 18 日在北卡罗来纳州罗利市举行的“Progress in Precision”会议的视频记录。该视频记录将分两个阶段：首先，将创建每个会议的逐字视频，并以流视频形式提供，以便在网络上观看；其次，将制作会议摘要（60-90 分钟）并以 DVD 形式提供。 本次会议将强调过去 20 年来精密工程作为一个技术领域的发展所带来的技术进步。 VLSI电路的线宽已从5微米变为0.1微米；磁性数据存储增加了 1000 倍，现在数据可以以 10 Gb/in2 存储；生物芯片实验室已经建成；已开发出新的计量系统，包括白光干涉仪和扫描探针显微镜；金刚石车削通常用于透镜制造和卡扣组装以进行对准； “纳米技术”一词已进入词典。 所有这些系统一直是精密工程研究和开发的重点。 会议的目标是描述精密工程固有的广泛技术领域，定义该领域核心的多学科观点的影响，并预测未来的挑战。 它将提醒从业者过去 20 年来在过程和测量方面发生的重大改进，并向新的教师、研究生和本科生介绍精密工程的重要性。 通过创建会议的视频记录并将为期 2 天的会议浓缩为 90 分钟的 DVD，将获得会议的永久记录，可以广泛分发以强调这一重要领域的贡献。

This grant provides funding to produce a video record of the conference "Progress in Precision" that will take place in Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 17-18, 2002. This video record will be in two phases: first, a verbatim video for each session will be created and made available as streaming video for viewing over the web; second, a summary of the conference (60-90 minute) will be produced and made available in the form of a DVD. This conference will emphasize the technical progress that resulted from the growth of precision engineering as a technical field over the past 20 years. Line widths for VLSI circuits have gone from 5 micron to 0.1 micron; magnetic data storage has increased by a factor of 1000 and now data can be stored at 10 Gb/in2; biological labs-on-a-chip have been produced; new metrology systems have been developed including white light interferometers and scanning probe microscopes; diamond turning is in common use for lens fabrication and snap-together assembles for alignment; and the word "nanotechnology" has entered the lexicon. All of these systems have been at the focus of precision engineering research and development. The goal of the conference is to describe the wide range of technical fields intrinsic to precision engineering, to define the impact of the multi-disciplinary viewpoint that is at the heart of the field and to predict the future challenges. It will serve to remind the practitioners of the significant improvements in process and measurement that have taken place over the past 20 years and to introduce a new group of faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students to the importance of precision engineering. By creating the video record of the conference and distilling the 2 day meeting into a 90 minute DVD, a permanent record of the conference will be available that can be widely distributed to emphasize the contributions of this important field.