Phase II IUCRC at University of Central Florida: Center for Multi-functional Integrated System Technology

多功能集成系统技术（MIST）中心的更广泛影响是开发推动下一代智能系统所需的硬件技术。该中心专注于通过与行业和政府合作伙伴的合作，将新材料，设备和制造工艺转化为多功能集成系统。MIST中心的目标是沿着整个堆栈进行竞争前研究，从新兴材料，电子，磁性，声学，光子，微机电和光子器件，到电路和架构，以应对开发物联网（IoT）底层硬件所需的复杂挑战。该中心培养精通该中心竞争前研究的下一代研究生，积极招募和指导来自科学和工程领域代表性不足的群体的参与者，并促进跨多个学术，工业和政府组织的公私研究网络。 UCF网站将扩大以STEM和多样性为重点的本科生工作，包括本科生研究经验（REU）和教师研究经验（RET），以及通过研究生实习与行业合作伙伴互动。拟议中的MIST产业大学合作研究中心将围绕传感、计算、无线、电源和集成五个技术重点领域构建，以推动可穿戴设备、物联网系统、传感器网络和“雾计算”等系统技术，将计算硬件引入传感器节点，是物联网生态系统超越云计算和雾计算的逻辑进展。MIST中心将解决特定的技术挑战，如高速通信;自供电，节点边缘传感;节能，低功耗计算;先进的网络和系统集成。 UCF Site将专注于跨学科研究，包括功率半导体器件、3D玻璃通孔（TGV）可靠性、5G射频电路、硅纳米线和化学传感器以及用于LiDAR的光学器件。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impacts of the Multi-functional Integrated System Technology (MIST) Center are to develop the hardware technologies necessary to propel the next generation of smart systems. The center focuses on translating novel materials, devices, and manufacturing processes into multi-functional integrated systems via collaboration with industry and government partners. The MIST Center targets pre-competitive research along the entire stack from emerging materials, electron, magnetic, acoustic, photonic, microelectromechanical, and photonic devices, to circuits and architecture needed to tackle complex challenges in developing the hardware underlying the Internet of Things (IoT). The Center trains the next generation of graduate students versed in the center's precompetitive research, actively recruits and mentors participants from underrepresented groups in science and engineering, and fosters public-private research networks across multiple academic, industrial, and government organizations. The UCF Site will expand a STEM- and diversity-focused undergraduate effort including Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experiences for Teachers (RET), as well as interacting with industry partners through graduate student internships. The proposed MIST Industry University Cooperative Research Center will be structured around five technology thrust areas – sensing, computing, wireless, power, and integration – to drive system technologies such as wearable devices, IoT systems, sensor networks, and "mist computing", bringing computing hardware to the sensor node and is the logical progression of the IoT ecosystem beyond cloud computing and fog computing. The MIST center will address specific technology challenges such as high-speed communication; self-powered, edge-of-the-node sensing; energy-efficient, low-power computing; advanced networking; and system integration. The UCF Site will focus on interdisciplinary research including power semiconductor devices, 3D through glass via (TGV) reliability, 5G radio frequency circuits, silicon nanowire and chemical sensors, and optical devices for LiDAR.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.