I/UCRC Phase I: Broadband Wireless Access and Applications Center at the University of Mississippi

该奖项将有助于在密西西比大学(UM)创建一个新的I/UCRC站点，加入由亚利桑那大学领导的名为BWAC(宽带无线接入和应用中心)的现有IUCRC，该中心于2013年7月启动。UM网站扩展了BWAC在计算电磁学(EM)、天线设计和测试以及电信领域的范围。该网站将把无线领域最大的两个行业--高通和英特尔--加入BWAC工业咨询委员会。BWAC网站将帮助招收多种多样、有前途的本科生和研究生进入密歇根大学电气工程本科生和研究生课程。通过让他们直接参与对企业合作伙伴实际感兴趣的问题的研究，BWAC将帮助这些学生为毕业后在企业工作中竞争和提高工作效率做好准备。该项目将在与BWAC重点一致的领域发挥UM的研究能力和现实世界的行业兴趣。密歇根大学的教职员工已经确定了以下领域潜在的面向行业的研究：天线隐形的超材料、毫米波天线、大学体育运动中用于脑震荡管理的嵌入式传感器的无线信号、用于大数据传输的喷泉代码、认知无线电和雷达系统。其他可能的应用领域包括提高工厂效率的无线连接、新的无线安全算法、无线传感器网络的应用以及远程医疗。

This award will help create a new I/UCRC Site at University of Mississippi (UM) to join an existing IUCRC called BWAC (Broadband Wireless access and Applications Center) led by University of Arizona which started in July 2013. The UM site extends the scope of BWAC in the areas of computational electromagnetics (EM), antenna design and testing, and telecommunications. This Site will add two of the largest industries in the wireless space, Qualcomm and Intel, to the BWAC Industrial Advisory Board. The BWAC site will help recruit diverse and promising undergraduate and graduate students into electrical engineering undergraduate and graduate programs at UM. By engaging them directly in research on problems of actual interest to corporate partners, BWAC will help prepare these students to compete and be productive in corporate jobs the day they graduate.This project will bring to bear UM research capabilities and real-world industry interest in areas that align with the focus of BWAC. The UM faculty have identified potential industry-oriented research in the areas of metamaterials for antenna cloaking, mmWave antennas, wireless signaling from embedded sensors for concussion management in college athletic sports, fountain codes for big data transfers, cognitive radios and radar systems. Other possible applications areas include, wireless connectivity for improved efficiency in factory, new wireless security algorithms, applications of wireless sensor networks, and telemedicine.