Planning IUCRC at University of Arkansas: Center for High-Frequency Electronics And Circuits for Communication Systems (CHECCS)

通信系统高频电子和电路中心(CHECCS)团队计划在高频通信系统中建立一个多学科的IUCRC中心。这类系统已经渗透到我们日常生活的几乎方方面面，应用范围从自动驾驶汽车、个性化医疗和监控医疗保健到农业传感和商品库存系统。CHECCS的范围广泛地包括材料、电子、器件、电路、辐射及其应用。一个拥有广泛和互补专业知识的团队将与行业合作伙伴合作，启动综合研究项目。这些项目将作为该中心的基础，该中心不仅将支持研究项目，还将协调高频电子和通信领域的教育活动，根据行业合作伙伴的需要提供证书和培训。S中心的目标包括在这个技术挑战和经济关键领域解决业界感兴趣的多学科问题，解决行业战略需求，并培训未来工程师；从而满足全国对在支持高频通信的各种技术挑战领域具有深厚专业知识的合格工程师和科学家的需求。CHECCS的智力优势包括支持将该倡议的研究和教育部分发展为美国一个高度可见的综合计划的活动。阿肯色大学卓越的半导体制造和射频测试设施将是行业合作伙伴的宝贵资产。研究人员和工业合作伙伴将致力于开发支持商业和国防应用的设备、电路和系统。CHECCS设想培养出高素质和训练有素的工程师，能够领导先进的研究和探索活动。更广泛的影响包括加快对可行产品的技术转让研究，刺激衍生产品和初创企业，并与各种组织形成长期伙伴关系，同时利用行业和NSF/DOD/DOE的支持。CHECCS将结合研究小组的知识，培训未来的工程师，并通过从事日益复杂的高频通信项目来为他们配备基础知识。CHECCS将有研究生参与高质量的竞争前研究项目，从而培养具有产业相关研究知识的学生，并吸引更多的国内学生加强与招聘人员和校友的联系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Center for High-Frequency Electronics and Circuits for Communication Systems (CHECCS) team plans to establish a multidisciplinary IUCRC center in high-frequency communication systems. Such systems have penetrated almost all aspects of our daily life, with applications ranging from autonomous cars, personalized medicine, and monitored healthcare to agricultural sensing and merchandise inventory systems, for example. The scope of CHECCS broadly includes materials, electronics, devices, circuits, radiation, and their applications. A team with broad and complementary sets of expertise will collaborate with industrial partners to initiate integrated research projects. Such projects will serve as the foundation for the center, which will not only support research projects but also coordinate educational activities in both high-frequency electronics and communications to offer certificates and training as needed by industry partners. The center?s objectives include solving multidisciplinary problems of interest to industry in this technically-challenging and economically-vital critical area, addressing industry strategic needs, and training future engineers; thus addressing a national need for qualified engineers and scientists with deep expertise in the various technically-challenging areas supporting high-frequency communications.The intellectual merits of CHECCS include activities that would support the development of the research and educational components of this initiative into a highly visible integrated program in the US. The excellent semiconductor fabrication and RF test facilities at University of Arkansas will be great assets for the industrial partners. Researchers and industrial partners will work on developing devices, circuits and systems supporting commercial and defense-oriented applications. CHECCS envisions producing highly qualified and trained engineers capable of leading advanced research and exploratory activities. Broader impacts include accelerating technology transfer research into viable products, stimulating spin-offs and start-up businesses, and forming long-term partnerships with various organizations while leveraging industry and NSF/DOD/DOE support. CHECCS will combine knowledge from research groups, train future engineers, and equip them with base knowledge through working on increasingly complex projects in high-frequency communications. CHECCS will have graduate students involved in high-quality pre-competitive research projects, thus developing students who are knowledgeable in industrially-relevant research and attracting more domestic students to strengthen ties to recruiters and alumni.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.