Renovation of Research Facilities for Communications and Automatic Control

这笔NSF奖金将用于改造加州理工学院校园内斯蒂尔电气科学实验室约5600平方英尺的研究空间。斯蒂尔实验室大约有30年的历史，这次翻新将对设施进行改造，以适应加州理工学院电气工程研究项目的变化重点。此外，它将把研究人员整合到一个设施中，共同从事通信和自动控制方面的跨学科项目。所有七个项目教师都是在过去十年中加入的。具体的改造活动包括建造一个独特的高湾区，以容纳一个灵活的结构实验，以及一个足够大的蒸馏塔，以模拟实际的工业问题。将建立一个局域网络，以增加研究人员的互动，并克服与使用正在接近最大容量的校园骨干系统有关的低效率。该项目将对通信和自动控制等竞争领域的教员增长和学生入学（包括少数民族和妇女）产生重要影响。

This NSF award will be utilized to renovate approximately 5,600 square feet of research space in the Steele Laboratory of Electrical Sciences on the campus of the California Institute of Technology. Steele Lab is approximately 30 years old, and the renovation will retrofit the facility to the changed emphasis of Cal Tech electrical engineering research programs. In addition, it will consolidate researchers into one facility to work together on interdisciplinary projects in communications and automatic control. All seven project faculty have joined the faculty in the last ten years. Specific renovation activities include construction of a unique high bay area to house a flexible structure experiment as well as a distillation column of sufficient size to mimic actual industrial problems. A local area network will be established to increase researcher interaction and to overcome the inefficiencies associated with use of the campus backbone system which is approaching maximum capacity. The project will have an important impact on faculty growth and student enrollment, including minorities and women, in the competitive area of communications and automatic control.