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

美国-芬兰规划访问：综合接入网合作研究和教育活动

• 批准号: 1042309
• 负责人: Arlene Maclin
• 金额: $ 1.58万
• 依托单位: Morgan State University
• 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: 2010-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1042309&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Finland; Planning; Visit; Cooperative

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.

通过这次计划访问，摩根州立大学的美国首席研究员Arlene Maclin将与亚利桑那大学的同事一起，与芬兰阿尔托科技大学的合作伙伴开展国际合作研究和教育活动。她的杰出同行，阿尔托微电子部门的Seppo Honkanen将领导芬兰方面的合作。他们计划的长期互动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、刺激的模式，为美国本科生提供早期的国际光纤研究经验。此外，后续活动预计将补充和加强正在进行的研究和教育活动，这些活动得到了设在亚利桑那大学的国家科学基金会综合接入网络工程研究中心(CIAN)的支持，该中心由Nasser Peyghambarian领导。这一规划工作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，实现了提高我们对光纤接入网络和子系统集成的知识的计划目标。美国团队在光通信系统方面的优势与芬兰合作伙伴在光子学领域的优势形成了极好的互补。他们的共同目标是致力于光纤接入网络的变革性技术，同时培养未来一代工程师，以便在基于团队的、多学科的国际研究环境中解决问题。更广泛的影响包括提高了向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生涯的机会的能力。长期的成功可以促进更多样化的工程队伍和创新的、跨学科的系统驱动的设计，例如监测环境污染物对生态系统影响的生物传感系统。