Center for Advanced Radio Sciences and Engineering

该奖项设立的高级无线电科学与工程中心将开发综合工具，以解决频谱共享和共存问题，并通过旨在提升波多黎各大学马亚格斯分校(UPRM)、阿雷西博天文台(AO)和整个波多黎各的科学和工程能力的创新和合作生态系统，改善无线电科学观测的绩效。该中心将探索射电天文学、大气科学、频谱监测和无线电频率干扰缓解方面的新概念，重点是科学观测。该中心将提高波多黎各工程界和学术界的研究竞争力，通过在尖端研究基础设施和实习方面的实践经验培训新一代学生。该中心的建立将促进AO、国家射电天文台(NRAO)、业界和波多黎各学术界之间的新合作，这将丰富无线电科学和工程学，并使波多黎各的学生和科学家能够积极参与未来的无线电科学项目。该项目由天文科学部、已建立的激励竞争研究计划(EPSCoR)和数学和物理科学局多学科活动办公室共同资助。UPRM通过其管理组织中佛罗里达大学(UCF)与工业界和AO建立了合作关系，创建了高级无线电科学和工程中心。该中心为保持和发展当地的科学和工程能力提供支持。该中心将能够开发综合工具，以解决频谱共享和共存问题，并提高射电科学观测的性能。该中心的具体目标包括开发无线电频率、微波和毫米波天线和系统、电子学和嵌入式系统以及数字信号处理算法的使能技术，以及大气科学和射电天文学的交叉应用科学研究活动。设想开发的工具包括频谱监测和无线电频率干扰缓解系统；强大的干扰科学接收器；体积小、重量轻、低功率和低成本的科学接收器和监测系统；以及可减少带外排放的适应性发射器。该中心包括开发RFI缓解解决方案的行业合作伙伴关系。主要的重点是在学术界和工业界之间建立新的伙伴关系，以发展多样化的、具有全球竞争力的STEM工作人员，这些工作人员需要规划、设计、原型、建造、委托和操作下一代射电天文仪器。中心的活动将加强UPRM和更广泛的波多黎各机构的工程、射电天文学、大气科学和高通量计算研究基础设施，包括新的教员队伍、对博士后研究员和研究生的支持以及跨机构研究支持。教育、外展、劳动力和多样性、公平和包容活动将与UPRM Centro University Parel Acceso和NRAO射电天文数据成像和分析实验室项目合作开发。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Center for Advanced Radio Sciences and Engineering established in this award will enable the development of integrated tools to resolve spectrum sharing and coexistence issues, and improve performance on radio science observations through an innovation and collaboration ecosystem designed to elevate the science and engineering capacity at University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), Arecibo Observatory (AO), and Puerto Rico in general. The center will explore new concepts in radio astronomy, atmospheric sciences, spectrum monitoring and radio frequency interference mitigation, with a focus on scientific observations. The Center will improve the research competitiveness of the Puerto Rico engineering and academic communities, training a new generation of students via hands-on experience with leading-edge research infrastructure and internships. The creation of this center will foster new collaborations between AO, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), industry, and the Puerto Rico academic community, which will both enrich radio sciences and engineering and position Puerto Rico students and scientists to participate strongly in future radio sciences projects. This project is jointly funded by the Division of Astronomical Sciences, the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences. UPRM formed a collaboration with industry and with AO via its managing organization, the University of Central Florida (UCF), to create the Center for Advanced Radio Sciences and Engineering. This Center provides support to maintain and grow the local scientific and engineering capacity. The Center will enable the development of integrated tools to resolve spectrum sharing and coexistence issues, and improve performance on radio science observations. The Center’s specific goals include the development of enabling technologies in radio frequencies, microwave, and millimeter-wave antennas and systems, electronics and embedded systems, and digital signal processing algorithms, together with crosscutting applied sciences research activities in atmospheric sciences and radio astronomy. Tools envisioned for development consist of spectrum monitoring and radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation systems; interference robust scientific receivers; small size, low weight, low power and low-cost scientific receivers and monitoring systems; and adaptable transmitters with reduced out-of-band emissions. The Center includes industry partnerships to develop RFI mitigation solutions. A primary focus is to create new partnerships between academia and industry for the development of the diverse, globally competitive STEM workforce required to plan, design, prototype, construct, commission and operate the next generation of radio astronomy instruments. Center activities will enhance engineering, radio astronomy, atmospheric science and high-throughput computing research infrastructure at UPRM and at Puerto Rico institutions more broadly, including new faculty lines, support for postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, and cross-institutional research support. Education, Outreach, Workforce, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion activities will be developed in partnership with the UPRM Centro Universitario para el Acceso, and the NRAO Radio Astronomy Data Imaging and Analysis Lab Project.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.