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

通信系统高频电子和电路中心（CHTCS）团队计划在高频通信系统中建立一个多学科的IUCRC中心。这些系统几乎已经渗透到我们日常生活的各个方面，应用范围从自动汽车、个性化医疗和监控医疗保健到农业传感和商品库存系统。 其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工业合作伙伴合作，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。中心？的目标包括解决工业界在这一技术上具有挑战性和经济上至关重要的关键领域感兴趣的多学科问题，解决工业战略需求，并培养未来的工程师;因此，在本发明中，满足国家对合格工程师和科学家的需求，他们在各种技术挑战领域具有深厚的专业知识，该计划的智力价值在于将该计划的研究和教育部分发展成为美国一个高度可见的综合计划。在田纳西大学，CNAS将协助行业解决高频段具有挑战性的多学科研究问题，包括5G和UWB技术、医疗保健和老年人护理、数字RF前端以及超高分辨率成像雷达。通过与各组织建立伙伴关系，将参与研究小组的知识结合起来，创造一种将工程研究与技术创新联系起来的文化，并鼓励将技术转让给商业产品或新成立的公司，从而培养出能够领导先进研究和探索活动的高素质和训练有素的工程师。更广泛的影响包括加速将技术转移到可行产品的研究，刺激副产品和初创企业，并与各种组织建立长期伙伴关系，同时利用行业和NSF/DOD/DOE的支持。该公司将联合收割机的知识从研究小组，培训未来的工程师，并配备他们的基础知识，通过在高频通信日益复杂的项目工作。该奖项旨在培养研究生参与高质量的竞争前研究项目，从而培养具有工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价值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, tackling 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 are the development of the research and educational components of this initiative into a highly visible integrated program in the US. At the University of Tennessee, CHECCS will assist industry in addressing challenging multidisciplinary research problems in the high-frequency bands including 5G and UWB technology, healthcare and elderly care, digital RF frontend, and radars with super high-resolution imaging. By combining knowledge from participating research groups and creating a culture that links engineering research to technological innovation through partnerships with organizations and to stimulate technology transfer into commercial products or start-up companies, thus 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 various with 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.