U.S.-Finland Planning Visit: Cooperative Research and Education Activities in Integrated Access Networks

通过这次计划中的访问，摩根州立大学的美国首席研究员阿琳·麦克林（Arlene Maclin）将与亚利桑那大学的同事们一起，与芬兰阿尔托科技大学（Aalto University of Science and Technology）的伙伴开展国际合作研究和教育活动。她尊敬的同行，阿尔托微电子部门的Seppo Honkanen，将领导芬兰方面的合作。他们计划的长期相互作用的结果将改善我们的计算研究和对磁光材料的基本理解，并可能导致新的，刺激的模型，为美国本科生提供光纤的早期国际研究经验。此外，后续活动预计将补充和加强由国家科学基金会在亚利桑那大学综合接入网络工程研究中心（由Nasser peyghambararian领导）支持的正在进行的研究和教育活动。通过使美国和欧洲的研究人员能够在共同感兴趣和能力的领域共享资源和专业知识，这一规划工作实现了推进我们在光接入网和子系统集成方面的知识的计划目标。美国团队在光通信系统方面的优势为芬兰在光子学方面的合作伙伴提供了极好的补充。他们的目标是共同致力于光接入网络的变革性技术，同时为下一代工程师在基于团队的、多学科的、国际研究环境中解决问题做好准备。更广泛的影响包括提高能力，为来自摩根州立大学和其他美国机构的少数族裔学生和教师提供探索光学和电子工程职业的机会。长期的成功可能有助于形成更多样化的工程劳动力，以及创新的、跨学科的系统驱动的设计，例如用于监测环境污染物对生态系统影响的生物传感系统。

Through this planning visit, U.S. Principal Investigator Arlene Maclin of Morgan State University, along with colleagues from the University of Arizona, will develop international cooperative research and education activities with partners at Aalto University of Science and Technology, in Finland. Her distinguished counterpart, Seppo Honkanen with Aalto's Department of Microelectronics, will head the collaboration on the Finnish side. Results from their planned longer-term interaction should improve our computational studies and fundamental understanding of magneto-optical materials and may lead to new, stimulating models for providing U.S. undergraduate students with early international research experience in fiber-optics. Furthermore, the follow-on activities are expected to complement and strengthen on-going research and education activities supported by the National Science Foundation at the University of Arizona based Engineering Research Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN), directed by Nasser Peyghambarian. This planning effort fulfills the program objective of advancing our knowledge of optical access networks and subsystem integration by enabling researchers in the United States and Europe to share resources and expertise in areas of mutual interest and competence. The U.S. team's strengths in optical communication systems offer an excellent complement to those of the Finnish partners in photonics. Together, their goal is to work toward transformative technologies for optical access networks while preparing the up-coming generation of engineers for problem solving in team-based, multidisciplinary, international research environments. Broader impacts include a heightened ability to provide opportunities to explore careers in optical and electronic engineering to underrepresented minority students and faculty from Morgan State University and other U.S. institutions. Long-term success could contribute to a more diverse engineering workforce and to innovative, interdisciplinary system-driven designs, such as biosensing systems for monitoring the impact of environmental pollutants on ecosystems.