PFI: Consortium for Spectroscopic Sensor Systems (CoS3): An Integrated Systematic and Entrepreneurial Approach to Engineering Education

PFI：光谱传感器系统联盟 (CoS3)：工程教育的集成系统和创业方法

• 批准号: 0917956
• 负责人: Serge Luryi
• 金额: $ 59.99万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-01 至 2013-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0917956&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; Consortium; Spectroscopic; Sensor; Systems

This Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project is a Type II (A: B) partnership involving two universities, SUNY at Stony Brook, an NSF PFI graduate (0332605) and the site of the Center for Advanced Technology in Diagnostic Tools and Sensor Systems (Sensor CAT), and Princeton University, which is participating in another NSF partnership program: Engineering Research Center (ERC) on Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and Environment (MIRTHE) (0540832). This project addresses the need to stimulate interest in the field of sensor technology. Sensor technology engineering is a field ready for rapid growth and innovation, but the high level of specialization needed for a student to get into the field means that there are few students in the pipeline. Sensor-related technology provides an exciting platform for developing an entrepreneurial-learning environment, and can have far reaching multidisciplinary implications. Combining students from both Stony Brook and Princeton in E-Teams, the approach taken in this project to entrepreneurial learning builds on both institutions' technical strengths in sensing and detection in general, their and in spectroscopic sensing in particular, and will support expansion of the sensor research community drawing, recruitment of undergraduate students into engineering, and enrichment of undergraduate training with multidisciplinary team-work experience and entrepreneurial skills. The project seeks to provide an educational model that will produce well-rounded engineers who are adaptable to the business world and who are capable of thriving in the face of new challenges.Sensor technologies have been undergoing rapid transitions as is a result of a convergence of forces in along several dimensions, including miniaturization, intelligence and mobility. Sensor technologies are poised to be applied in the real world in various applications such as environment and civil, industry and commerce, health, safety, and security. Moreover, the area of sensor systems can provide a far-reaching, multidisciplinary technology "pull" that can fascinate and inspire engineering students. The project seeks to contribute to the sensor revolution by building a technology workforce, a pipeline of engineering graduates with entrepreneurial and business skills. At the same time, it will serve to revitalize engineering education with an integrated, systematic and multidisciplinary approach. The coursework developed in this project is applicable elsewhere in the U.S., where sensor technology is important, e.g.,especially, Florida and California. The methodology (e-teams, web based courses, entrepreneurship training) is widely useful in other engineering disciplines.Partners at the inception of the project are Academic Institutions: SUNY at Stony Brook (lead institution) and Princeton University; and Private Sector Organizations: Lockheed Martin; Veeco; Servo Corporation of America; MTI Instruments; Princeton Technology Advisers Company; GHO Ventures, LLC; and LaserMax.

该创新伙伴关系（PFI）项目是II型（a: B）合作伙伴关系，涉及两所大学，州立大学石溪分校，NSF PFI毕业生（0332605）和诊断工具和传感器系统先进技术中心（Sensor CAT）的所在地，普林斯顿大学，这是参与另一个NSF合作项目：健康和环境中红外技术工程研究中心（ERC） （MIRTHE）（0540832）。该项目旨在激发人们对传感器技术领域的兴趣。传感器技术工程是一个快速增长和创新的领域，但学生进入该领域所需的高水平专业化意味着很少有学生在管道中。传感器相关技术为开发创业学习环境提供了一个令人兴奋的平台，并且可以产生深远的多学科影响。将石溪大学和普林斯顿大学的学生组成E-Teams，该项目采用的创业学习方法建立在两所大学在传感和检测方面的技术优势之上，特别是在光谱传感方面，并将支持传感器研究社区的扩展，招募工程专业的本科生，丰富本科多学科团队合作经验和创业技能的培养。该项目旨在提供一种教育模式，培养全面发展的工程师，使他们能够适应商业世界，并能够在面对新的挑战时蓬勃发展。由于小型化、智能化和机动性等几个方面的力量融合，传感器技术正在经历快速转型。传感器技术将在现实世界中应用于各种应用，如环境和民用、工业和商业、健康、安全和安保。此外，传感器系统领域可以提供影响深远的多学科技术“吸引力”，可以吸引和激励工程专业的学生。该项目旨在通过建立一支技术劳动力队伍，培养具有创业和商业技能的工程毕业生，为传感器革命做出贡献。同时，它将以综合、系统和多学科的方式振兴工程教育。本项目开发的课程作业适用于传感器技术很重要的美国其他地方，例如，特别是佛罗里达州和加利福尼亚州。这种方法（电子团队、基于网络的课程、创业培训）在其他工程学科中广泛应用。项目开始时的合作伙伴是学术机构：纽约州立大学石溪分校（牵头机构）和普林斯顿大学；私营部门组织：洛克希德·马丁公司；Veeco;美国伺服公司；MTI仪器;普林斯顿技术顾问公司；GHO Ventures， LLC；和LaserMax。