Tuesday, June 11, 2002Volume 2, Issue 10
Director's Message
I would like to remind everyone that the MRI Web-Site has a catalogue of equipment posted. It lists equipment items present in individual faculty labs, departments, centers and user facilities. Its primary purpose is to facilitate student and faculty research activities through equipment sharing. Another purpose is to provide a database for decision-making about equipment needs, and for prioritizing the selection and investment in equipment matching proposals. If you are requesting equipment matching funds from the Materials Research Institute or the Office of Vice President for Research, I suggest that you review this list to find out if comparable equipment already exists on campus (and be prepared to justify duplication of equipment or facilities).
We hope you find the equipment list useful. Please let us know if any additions or deletions are necessary for equipment in your area.
Regards,
Carlo
MRI Faculty Spotlight
Professor Joan Redwing is an Electronic and Photonic Materials faculty member in the Materials Science and Engineering Department. Dr. Redwing's expertise is in metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) synthesis routes for compound semiconductors, and her research activities focus on two main areas. The first is to explore process/structure/property relationships in wide band-gap semiconductor films. She primarily studies the (Al,Ga,In)N family, which are useful for high brightness UV/visible light emitters, active power electronic components, and high temperature electronics.
For the full story go to:
http://www.mri.psu.edu/articles/JoanRedwing/
NSF Releases 1999-2000 State Science & Engineering Profiles
The National Science Foundation has published the Science & Engineering State Profiles: 1999-2000, an on-line database. One-page statistical summaries are given for each state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, permitting calculation of per capita statistics and rankings.
The report is geared to allow easy reference across 30 science and engineering statistics, the distribution of federal R&D obligations by department and performer, and industrial and academic R&D expenditures. Additionally, it includes figures for population, per capita income, labor force, patents, small business innovation research awards, and gross state product.
Science & Engineering State Profiles: 1999-2000 can be downloaded at http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf02318/pdfstart.htm
SSTI has prepared the accompanying table presenting the amount of academic R&D spending in each state per graduate S&E student. The results show Alaska, at $179,928, has the most R&D expenditures per student, followed closely by Maryland at $167,599, before dropping sharply to Hawaii at $114,235. The national average academic spending per graduate S&E student in 2000 was $72,506.60. New Hampshire, Washington, Georgia, North Carolina, Vermont, Missouri, and Maine round off the top 10.
SSTI has prepared another accompanying table presenting for comparison the number of patents issued to state residents in 2000, the average number of patents issued per member of the state's civilian workforce, the average number of patents per doctoral scientists and doctoral engineers in the state, and the R&D dollars spent in the state per patent issued.
Faculty Contracts & Grants
Materials research accounted for more than $7.3 million in contracts and grants for the month of May! The largest of these contracts and grants (those greater than $200K) are listed below, along with a link to the complete list of contracts and grants. These data are provided by OSPs Strategic Information Management System.
Colby, Ralph; The Critical Role of Glass Transition Phenomena on the Dynamics of Miscible Polymer Blends, National Science Foundation
Eden, Timothy; Advanced Technologies for Printed Wiring Board Fabrication, U.S. Department of the Navy
Macdonald, Digby; International Fuel Cells, Industry
Mayer, Theresa; Directed Assembly of Molecular Logic Architectures Using Functionalized Metallic Nanowires, U.S. Department of the Navy
Redwing, Joan; NIRT: Semiconductor Nanowires: Building Blocks for Nanoscale Electronics, National Science Foundation
