I/UCRC: Workshops Promoting International USA-Mexico Collaborations in Sensors and Signal Processing

亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）和蒙特雷技术学院（ITESM）最近签署了一份谅解备忘录（MOU），并在亚利桑那州立大学举行了两次行政会议，探讨合作研究和教育工作。该NSF奖项为组织两个主题为传感器信号和信息处理系统的研讨会提供支持。该计划将对美墨两国的研究和教育活动产生积极影响，并将吸引来自传感器和信号处理领域两个大型机构的一些合格学生和教师。该计划将吸引电气工程等STEM学科中代表性不足的群体，对改善工程劳动力基础产生更广泛的影响，并为两国带来相应的经济利益。该计划将传播成功的学术-产业合作模式，如墨西哥的I/UCRC。传感器的几个应用方面将在工业领域，包括本地化，移动性与制造业，健康和其他共同感兴趣的系统进行讨论。研讨会将吸引美国和墨西哥的研究人员，教师和学生，并题为：-研讨会1：传感器和信号处理的本地化和安全应用;-研讨会2：传感器和信号处理的本地化和安全应用;-研讨会3：传感器和信号处理的本地化和安全应用;-研讨会4：传感器和信号处理的本地化和安全应用;-研讨会5：传感器和信号处理的本地化和安全应用。传感器和信号处理领域的学术与工业合作。这两个研讨会将由PI组织，PI将领导一个由教师和行业合作伙伴组成的组委会。第一次研讨会将在亚利桑那州的滕佩举行（2015年12月），第二次研讨会将在墨西哥的蒙特雷举行（2016年5月）。讲习班的目标是：a）通过研究和小组会议，在美国和墨西哥的教师和行业研究人员之间建立合作结构，B）通过为学生和研究人员组织的教程，在传感器系统领域建立STEM基础，以支持未来的劳动力发展工作，以及c）利用美国的产业联盟-研究模式，如I/UCRC，在墨西哥建立产业-大学关系。

Arizona State University (ASU) and Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM) have recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and held two administrative meetings at ASU to explore collaborative research and education endeavors. This NSF award provides support to organize two workshops whose themes will be on Sensor Signal and Information Processing Systems. This program will positively impact US-Mexico research and education initiatives and will engage a number of qualified students and faculty from two large institutions in the area of sensors and signal processing. The program will engage underrepresented groups within STEM disciplines such as electrical engineering, with broader impacts on improving the engineering workforce base, with commensurate economic benefits to the two countries. The program will disseminate successful academy-industry collaborative models such as the I/UCRC in Mexico. Several application aspects of sensors will be addressed in industrial areas including localization, mobility with extensions to manufacturing, health, and other systems of common interest.The workshops which will engage USA and Mexico researchers, faculty and students and are titled:-Workshop 1: Sensors and Signal Processing for Localization and Security Applications;-Workshop 2: Academy-Industry Collaborations in Sensors and Signal Processing.The two workshops will be organized by the PI who will lead an organizing committee of faculty and industry partners. The first workshop will be in Tempe, Arizona (December 2015) and the second one in will be held in Monterrey, Mexico (May 2016). The objectives of the workshops are to: a) initiate collaborative structures between faculty and industry researchers in the US and Mexico through research and panel sessions, b) develop STEM foundations in the areas of sensor systems through organized tutorials for students and researchers that will support future workforce development efforts, and c) initiate industry-university relationsin Mexico using US industry academia-research models such as the I/UCRC.