Web Handling Research Center

俄克拉荷马州立大学的Web处理研究中心自1985年以来一直是一个非常可行和成功的I/UCRC。该中心的研究重点是“网”，即以连续的柔性条状形式制造和加工的材料，包括纸、塑料、纺织品、金属和复合材料。Web技术以某种方式应用于几乎每个连续流程行业。该中心的研究领域包括：1)纵向动力学；2)横向动力学；3)卷绕和解卷；4)起皱；5)物理性能测量；6)控制策略。该中心已经发展到15家企业赞助商，并在六年内从诺布尔基金会获得了90万美元的赠款，用于设备和研究生奖学金支持。该中心在其一生中非常有效地利用其工业咨询委员会来帮助确定和指导其研究，最近开始集中精力进行技术转让。这些努力包括在赞助商的工厂举办研讨会，以及向中心赞助商提供现场互动卫星传送的电话会议。该中心显然是一个有效的I/UCRC中心，符合该计划的所有要求。项目经理建议俄克拉荷马州立大学在为期三年、自给自足的研究伙伴关系的第一年奖励33,000美元，为中心的一名评估员提供一年的支持8,000美元，并在“支持妇女、少数民族和残疾人工程研究助理的资金”项下为两名女本科生提供10,000美元的支持，总额为51,000美元。每12个月接近结束时，项目经理和/或工程中心部门主任将根据一系列标准审查中心的进展，包括：1)大学/行业互动和合作的发展程度；2)中心的支持基础扩大的程度；3)健全的研究计划发展的程度。如果审查令人满意，项目经理将建议支持下一阶段的持续拨款。

The Web Handling Research Center at Oklahoma State University has been a very viable and successful I/UCRC since 1985. The Center's research concentrates on "Webs", which are materials that are manufactured and processed in continuous flexible, strip form, and includes paper, plastics, textiles, metals, and composites. Web technology is used in almost every continuous process industry in some way. The Center's research efforts are in the areas of: 1) longitudinal dynamics; 2) lateral dynamics; 3) winding and unwinding; 4) wrinkling; 5) measurement of physical properties, and 6) control strategies. The Center has grown to 15 corporate sponsors, and has received a grant of $900,000 over six years from the Noble Foundation for equipment and graduate fellowship support. The Center has used its Industrial Advisory Board very effectively over its lifetime to help define and direct its research, and recently began to concentrate efforts on technology transfer. These efforts have included seminars in sponsors' plants and a live interactive satellite-delivered teleconference delivered to the Center sponsors. The Center is clearly an effective I/UCRC Center and meets all the requirements for the program. The Program Manager recommends that Oklahoma State University be awarded $33,000 for the first year of a three-year, Self-Sufficient Partnership for Research, $8,000 for the support of an evaluator in the Center for one year, and $10,000 for the support of two female undergraduate students under the "Funding for Support for Woman, Minority, and Disabled Engineering Research Assistants, for a total of $51,000. Near the end of each 12-month period, the Program Manager and/or the Division Director of the Engineering Centers Division will review the progress of the Center on a number of criteria, including the following: 1) extent to which University/Industry interaction and collaboration is developing; 2) extent to which the support base for the Center is expanding; 3) extent to which robust research program is developing. If the review is satisfactory, the Program Manager will recommend support of the next period of this continuing grant.