NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing semi-conductor technologies in the Northwest (OR, ID, WA)

NSF 发动机开发奖：推进西北地区（俄勒冈州、爱达荷州、华盛顿州）的半导体技术

• 批准号: 2303099
• 负责人: Pallavi Dhagat
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2303099&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Advancing

This NSF Engine Development Award is focused on eventually creating a semiconductor ecosystem in the northwest region of the United States. The project's region of service includes Oregon, Idaho, and Washington, and partner institutions include semiconductor manufacturing and supply chain industries, national laboratories, state and local governments, and educational institutions. The semiconductor ecosystem encompasses use-inspired research related to the semiconductor industry, expands innovation and entrepreneurship, creates training programs to enable a workforce that includes associate to graduate degrees, and increases access and awareness of diverse groups leading to recruitment into STEM fields. The leadership team includes Oregon State University, University of Washington, Boise State University, Oregon Business Council, and the City of Hillsboro, along with industry and national laboratory partners, including Intel, Micron, Meta, American Semiconductor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Idaho National Laboratories, and other organizations.Regional stakeholders have identified a need to catalyze R&D in several use-inspired semiconductor research areas. Initial technical focus areas include artificial intelligence and machine learning, semiconductors, nanolithography, memory, and beyond-Moore functionality. The leadership team will analyze the potential of these focus areas to advance semiconductor technology and then refine the scope and scale of the initial use-inspired research topics to have the greatest technical and economic impact on the region. The semiconductor ecosystem can accelerate translation through integrative programs supporting the full cycle from business case development to business funding while offering cohesive services around entrepreneurship and translation to practice as critical components of the innovation engine. Working closely with diversity, equity, inclusion, and access partners, this project will expand its impact to increase underrepresented minority participation in STEM degree programs and professional careers. Collaborations with regional STEM outreach efforts, community colleges, and undergraduate/graduate programs will be leveraged to train a diverse advanced workforce. The NSF Development Award enables the project team to create a framework for an Engine by identifying the state of practice and existing gaps, determining use-inspired research directions, emphasizing translation to practice, expanding workforce growth, and creating a strategic plan that integrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and access and a culture of innovation.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.

NSF发动机开发奖的重点是最终在美国西北地区建立一个半导体生态系统。该项目的服务区域包括俄勒冈州、爱达荷州和华盛顿，合作机构包括半导体制造和供应链行业、国家实验室、州和地方政府以及教育机构。半导体生态系统包括与半导体行业相关的使用启发式研究，扩大创新和创业，创建培训计划，以实现包括副学士学位到研究生学位的劳动力，并增加不同群体的访问和认识，从而导致招聘到STEM领域。领导团队包括俄勒冈州大学、华盛顿大学、博伊西州立大学、俄勒冈州商业理事会和希尔斯伯勒市，沿着还有行业和国家实验室合作伙伴，包括英特尔、美光、Meta、美国半导体、太平洋西北国家实验室、爱达荷州国家实验室和其他组织。区域利益相关者已经确定需要在几个应用启发的半导体研究领域促进研发。最初的技术重点领域包括人工智能和机器学习、半导体、纳米光刻、存储器和超越摩尔的功能。领导团队将分析这些重点领域推进半导体技术的潜力，然后完善最初的使用启发研究课题的范围和规模，以便对该地区产生最大的技术和经济影响。半导体生态系统可以通过支持从业务案例开发到业务融资的整个周期的集成计划来加速翻译，同时提供围绕创业和翻译实践的连贯服务，作为创新引擎的关键组成部分。与多样性，公平，包容性和访问合作伙伴密切合作，该项目将扩大其影响，以增加在STEM学位课程和职业生涯中代表性不足的少数民族的参与。与区域STEM外展工作，社区学院和本科/研究生课程的合作将被用来培养多样化的先进劳动力。NSF开发奖使项目团队能够通过识别实践状态和现有差距，确定使用启发的研究方向，强调实践转化，扩大劳动力增长，并创建整合多样性，公平性，包容性，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进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。