ENGINEERING CORE

工程核心

• 批准号: 7620372
• 负责人: JOHN J GUINAN
• 金额: $ 41.03万
• 依托单位: MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-06-01 至 2012-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7620372
• 关键词: Acoustics; Advertising; Auditory; Auditory Physiology; Communities; Compatible; Complex; Computer software; Computers; Custom; Devices; Electrodes; Electronics; Engineering; Environment; Equipment; Funding; Generations; Hearing; Image; Individual; Internet; Knowledge; Laboratories; Mechanics; Morphologic artifacts; Output; Physiological; Publishing; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Role; Science; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Site; Solutions; Stimulus; System; Techniques; Technology; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; Writing; data acquisition; deafness; design; instrument; interest; repaired; research study; software systems

Scientific advances at our Center depend on specialized, computer-controlled experimental facilities for auditory research that are powerful and flexible enough to allow the efficient implementation of new paradigms. A major role of the Engineering Core is to design and maintain such specialized dataacquisition systems (Aim 1). This complex task involves selecting commercial instruments that are compatible with each other, installing these instruments, writing special software allowing them to be flexibly controlled by users, maintaining them, and upgrading them. Core Engineers also design and build electronic, acoustic and mechanical devices that are not commercially available (e.g. acoustic systems) to meet the constantly evolving requirements of physiological experiments (Aim 2). By web publishing of technical accomplishments, Core Engineers will share selected examples of our software and hardware solutions with the greater scientific community (Aim 3). The function of the Engineering Core is to facilitate both current research projects and new initiatives by taking advantage of emerging and mature technologies. The Engineering Core makes it possible for individual investigators to use sophisticated (or complicated) techniques that they would otherwise not be able to develop or use. By providing shared experimental facilities, the Engineering Core also encourages collaborative projects among the investigators using these facilities, and makes these facilities available to other NIH-funded investigators, external to the Center, who share an interest in hearing and deafness. Finally, the Engineering Core makes the scientific research of the Center more efficient by providing a knowledge bank that enables experimenters to be aware of and use techniques developed by another experimenter. In short, the Engineering Core increases the quantity and quality of the Center's scientific output, allowing us to better attack new issues in hearing and deafness.

我们中心的科学进步依赖于专门的、计算机控制的实验设备 强大而灵活的听觉研究，能够有效地实施新的 范例。工程核心的主要作用是设计和维护这种专门的数据获取 系统(目标1)。这项复杂的任务涉及选择符合以下条件的商业工具 相互兼容，安装这些仪器，编写特殊软件，使它们能够 由用户灵活控制、维护、升级。核心工程师还设计和建造 无法商用的电子、声学和机械设备(例如声学系统) 满足生理学实验不断发展的要求(目标2)。通过网络发布 技术成就，核心工程师将分享我们精选的软件和硬件示例 与更大的科学界合作解决方案(目标3)。 工程核心的职能是促进当前的研究项目和新的倡议 通过利用新兴和成熟的技术。工程核心使以下目标成为可能 个别调查人员使用复杂(或复杂)的技术，否则他们不会 能够开发或使用的。通过提供共享实验设备，工程核心还鼓励 使用这些设施的调查人员之间的协作项目，并使这些设施可用于 NIH资助的中心外的其他研究人员，他们对听力和耳聋有共同的兴趣。 最后，工程核心通过提供一个 使实验者能够知道并使用由另一个人开发的技术的知识库 实验者。简而言之，工程核心增加了中心科学研究的数量和质量 输出，使我们能够更好地解决听力和耳聋方面的新问题。