MIRTHE Industry Experts in Packaging

MIRTHE行业包装专家我们在此提议任命由美国国家科学基金会（nsf）赞助的健康和环境中红外技术工程研究中心MIRTHE，由一小组工业经验丰富的研究人员组成的MIRTHE行业包装专家，协助MIRTHE建立具有成本效益，可靠和最先进的包装能力，用于其高性能量子级联激光器，激光子系统和传感器的基础研究工作。美国国家科学基金会现场审查小组先前将缺乏这种包装能力列为MIRTHE的弱点或潜在威胁。这个提议的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包装能力。我们挑选了一些行业专家，他们除了具有高质量的技术专长外，还具有创业经验，在非常成功的小型企业中工作的经验，以及与研究生和本科生合作的经验。拟议的工作与MIRTHE的三大支柱相匹配：它将为MIRTHE的研发工作带来急需的器件封装专业知识；它有助于完成MIRTHE在STEM领域培养学生和归国学生的教育使命；它还加强了MIRTHE的产业界和大学之间的联系。除了聘请两名兼职的资深包装行业专家，我们还建议聘请一组最近被解雇的初级工程师，他们正在从行业过渡到研究生院。知识价值。由美国国家科学基金会赞助的工程研究中心MIRTHE正在领导开发一种全新的微量气体传感器系统平台，该平台提供高性能、经济高效和网络化的传感能力。这些传感器系统基于中红外量子级联激光光谱，并通过其紧凑性，自主性，网络能力和快速时间响应而脱颖而出。它们满足了微量化学传感在单个点传感器、城市传感器网络、遥感器和区域尺度上的应用需求。在此过程中，MIRTHE一直在解决并将继续解决确保清洁、安全、可持续和健康的环境、清洁的空气和可获得的医疗保健等重要的社会挑战。这里提出的“MIRTHE封装行业专家”计划任命特别合格和高度积极的行业专家来发展MIRTHE的器件封装能力，这将大大增强和加快MIRTHE在器件和子系统层面的研究和开发。反过来，MIRTHE将能够更好地实现其研发使命和愿景。更广泛的影响smirthe成功地培养和毕业了一支多样化和具有全球竞争力的美国劳动力队伍，为21世纪的工程领导做好准备。MIRTHE在接触历史上在科学和工程领域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。MIRTHE与其工业/从业者合作伙伴合作，开发并继续开发具有成本效益，市场就绪的中红外传感技术原型；这些技术为重要的工业部门带来了新的盈利产品线和新的收入来源。在这里提出，MIRTHE行业包装专家？项目中，学生和博士后研究人员将与行业专家密切合作，共同开发具有重要商业意义的包装能力。学生和博士后将接受培训，学习一项以前无法获得但必要的技能（包装），并将获得第一手的见解，了解创办公司和在小企业中工作的努力。雇用最近被解雇的初级工程师，从工业界过渡到研究生院，为留住STEM领域的人才提供了一个独特的机会，并增加了MIRTHE学生群体的多样性。不用说，MIRTHE的共享设施将大大受益于一个具有成本效益的，可靠的，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