MIRTHE Industry Experts in Packaging

MIRTHE包装行业专家我们在此提议向NSF赞助的健康与环境中红外技术工程研究中心MIRTHE任命一小群工业经验丰富的研究人员MIRTHE包装行业专家，以协助MIRTHE建立具有成本效益、可靠且最先进的包装能力，用于其高性能量子级联激光器的基础研究工作，激光子系统和传感器。缺乏这种包装能力以前被NSF现场审查小组列为MIRTHE的弱点或潜在威胁。这一提案机会使我们能够在经验丰富的行业专家的指导下，在MIRTHE的共享设施中快速建立这种急需的现场包装能力。我们选择的行业专家除了高质量的技术专业知识外，还带来了创业公司的专业知识，在非常成功的小企业工作，以及与研究生和本科生合作的经验。拟议的工作匹配以及与所有三个MIRTHE的支柱：它将带来急需的专业知识，在设备包装的MIRTHE的&研发工作;它有助于实现MIRTHE在STEM领域培训学生和归国学生的教育使命;它加强了MIRTHE的行业，大学联系。除了聘请两名兼职的资深包装行业专家，为期三年，我们还建议聘请一个非常小的小组，最近被解雇的初级工程师谁是过渡从工业回到研究生院。智力优势。美国国家科学基金会赞助的工程研究中心MIRTHE正在领导开发一个全新的平台，微量气体传感器系统，提供高性能，成本效益，和网络传感能力。这些传感器系统基于中红外量子级联激光光谱学，并通过其紧凑性，自主性，联网能力和快速时间响应而脱颖而出。它们满足了单点传感器、城市传感器网络、遥感器和区域尺度上痕量化学传感的应用需求。在这样做的过程中，MIRTHE一直在应对并继续应对确保清洁，安全，可持续和健康环境的重要社会挑战，清洁的空气呼吸和可获得的医疗保健。这里提出的“MIRTHE包装行业专家”该计划任命特别合格和高度积极的专家从行业发展的MIRTHE的设备封装能力，这将大大提高和加快MIRTHE的研究以及设备和子系统级别的开发。更广泛的影响MIRTHE成功地培养和毕业了一支多元化的、具有全球竞争力的美国劳动力队伍，准备承担21世纪的工程领导地位。MIRTHE在接触科学和工程领域历史上代表性不足的群体方面有着良好的记录，其研究人员和学生的多样性一直超过可比的全国平均水平。通过与行业/从业者合作伙伴的合作，MIRTHE已经开发并将继续开发具有成本效益的、市场就绪的中红外传感技术原型;这些技术为重要的行业领域带来了新的盈利产品线和新的收入来源。计划，学生和博士后研究人员将与行业专家密切合作，开发具有商业重要性的包装能力。学生和博士后将接受以前无法获得但必要的技能培训（包装），并将提供第一手的洞察力，以努力启动一个公司和工作在小企业。雇用最近下岗的初级工程师过渡到工业研究生院提供了一个独特的机会，以留住人才在STEM领域和增加的多样性MIRTHE的学生池。MIRTHE的共享设施将大大增加一个具有成本效益的，可靠的，国家的最先进的包装设施

MIRTHE Industry Experts in PackagingWe here propose to appoint to MIRTHE, the NSF-sponsored Engineering Research Center for Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and Environment, a small group of industrially experienced researchers, MIRTHE Industry Experts in Packaging, to assist MIRTHE in establishing cost-effective, reliable, and state-of-the-art packaging capabilities for its foundational research work on high performance Quantum Cascade lasers, laser sub-systems, and sensors. A lack of such packaging capabilities was previously cited as a weakness or potential threat to MIRTHE by NSF site review panels. This proposal opportunity allows us to rapidly establish this much needed packaging capabilities on-site in MIRTHE's shared facilities under the guidance of experienced industry experts. We have selected industry experts who in addition to top-quality technical expertise also bring with them expertise in starting up companies, working in highly successful small businesses, and who have experience in working with graduate and undergraduate students. The proposed work matches well with all three of MIRTHE's pillars: it will bring much-needed expertise in device packaging to MIRTHE's R&D efforts; it helps fulfill MIRTHE's education mission in training students and returning students in the STEM fields; and it strengthens MIRTHE's industry,university ties. In addition to hiring two part-time senior industry experts in packaging for the duration of three years, we also propose to hire a very small group of recently laid off junior engineers who are transitioning from industry back to graduate school.Intellectual merit.The NSF-sponsored Engineering Research Center MIRTHE is leading the development of an entirely new platform of trace gas sensor systems that provide high-performance, cost-effective, and networked sensing capabilities. These sensor systems are based on mid-infrared Quantum Cascade laser spectroscopy and excel through their compactness, autonomy, networking capability, and fast time response. They fulfill the application requirements of trace chemical sensing on the individual point sensor, urban sensor network, remote sensor, and regional scale. In doing so, MIRTHE has been addressing and continues to address the important societal challenges of securing a clean, safe, sustainable, and healthy environment, clean air to breathe and accessible healthcare.The here proposed "MIRTHE Industry Experts in Packaging" program appoints particularly qualified and highly motivated experts from industry to develop MIRTHE's device packaging capabilities which will greatly enhance and speed up MIRTHE's research and development at the device and sub-systems level. In turn, MIRTHE will be better able to deliver on its research and development mission and vision.Broader impactsMIRTHE successfully trains and graduates a diverse and globally competitive U.S. workforce ready to assume engineering leadership for the 21st century. MIRTHE has a proven track record to reach out to groups historically underrepresented in science and engineering, and its researcher and student diversity consistently exceeds comparable national averages. In collaboration with its industrial/practitioner partners, MIRTHE has developed and continues to develop prototypes of cost-effective, market-ready, mid-infrared sensing technologies; these technologies result in new profitable product lines and new revenue streams for important industry sectors.In the here proposed ,MIRTHE Industry Experts in Packaging? program, students and post-doctoral researchers will work closely with industry experts on the development of the commercially important packaging capabilities. Students and post-docs will be trained in a previously unavailable yet necessary skill (packaging), and will be offered first-hand insight into the effort of starting up a company and of working in small businesses.Hiring of recently laid-off junior engineers transitioning from industry to graduate school provides a unique opportunity to retain talent in the STEM fields and to increase the diversity of MIRTHE's student pool.Needless to add, MIRTHE's shared facilities will gain greatly from the addition of a cost-effective, reliable, state-of-the-art packaging facility