Student Travel Support for Transducers 01, The 2001 International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators in Munich, Germany, June 10-14, 2001

2001年国际固态传感器和执行器会议是一个重要的机会，捕捉在微结构制造和微机电系统的发展的当前国家的艺术前景。第11届固态传感器和致动器国际会议（Transducers '01）将于2001年6月10-14日在德国的慕尼黑举行。这是一个跨学科的研讨会，与会者来自大学、政府和工业实验室，代表了电气工程、机械工程、材料科学、生物医学工程、物理学、生物学、化学和微电子学等多个交叉领域。我们建议部分赞助来自北美的论文学生作者参加这次会议。这些学生作者是从竞争激烈的摘要提交中挑选出来的，代表了MEMS社区最有才华的年轻成员。这些学生将前往会议展示他们自己的工作，然后花一周的剩余时间参加演讲和讨论，收集会议上最重要的突破性技术的信息。许多制造和集成技术与NSF电子和控制系统办公室资助的技术和应用直接相关。每个学生都将写一份简短的报告，描述他们在会议上学到的重要技术，这些将被收集到一份摘要报告中，以NSF强调这个社区的新趋势，其他国家发起的重要推动力，以及美国技术基础有利或不利的领域。我们申请的资金将允许来自不同机构的大约12名学生教师获得部分旅行支持在北美

The 2001 International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators represents animportant opportunity to capture a perspective on the current state of the art in microstructurefabrication and the development of MicroElectroMechanical Systems. The 11th InternationalConference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers '01) will be held in Munich,Germany, from June 10-14, 2001.Transducers is a biennial conference focusing on theory, design, fabrication, andapplication of solid-state sensors, actuators, and microsystems. It is an interdisciplinary gatheringwith participants from university, government, and industrial laboratories representing diversecross spectrum of fields: electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science,biomedical engineering, physics, biology, chemistry, and microelectronics.We propose to partially sponsor travel for student authors of papers from North Americato this conference. These student authors have been selected from a very competitive pool ofabstract submissions, and represent the most talented young members of the MEMS community.These students will travel to the conference to present their own work, and then spend theremainder of the week attending presentations and discussions, gathering information on themost important breakthrough technologies revealed at the conference. Much of the fabricationand integration technology is of direct relevance to technologies and applications funded throughNSF Electronics and Controls Systems office. Each of these students will write a brief reportdescribing the important technologies they learned about at the conference, and these will begathered into a summary report to NSF highlighting new trends in this community, importantthrusts initiated by other countries, and areas where the US technological base holds advantagesor disadvantages.The funding that we request will allow partial travel support for approximately 12 studentauthors from various institutions in North America.