ERC Adopts Broad Summer Activity Format Showcasing Industry, Faculty, and Student Research
Outcome/Accomplishment
In its tenth year the NSF-funded Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE) Engineering Research Center (ERC), headquartered at Princeton University, adopted a new Summer Activity format. First, MIRTHE hosted a Summer Symposium in June 2015 featuring technical talks from faculty and industry. Second, in late July, MIRTHE hosted a two-day Summer Research Presentation Workshop for participants in the REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program along with summer interns to showcase their summer research.
Impact/Benefits
The overall vision of this two-session approach was to bring together the entire MIRTHE community in a format enabling the wide-ranging exchange of ideas, intense interdisciplinary networking, and socializing in an intellectual and technology-rich environment. As is evident from the figure below, this vision was realized.
Explanation/Background
To support the overall vision, MIRTHE's summer symposium and presentation workshop are conducted with several set goals:
(i) to provide a venue for all student participants (graduate, undergraduate, REU, and select K-12 students) to present their work in an intellectually rich and challenging environment;
(ii) to provide a venue for MIRTHE leadership to assess quality of research work conducted in the ERC;
(iii) to provide opportunities for formal interdisciplinary training through selected tutorials, invited speakers external to MIRTHE, and focus sessions; and
(iv) to connect the MIRTHE academic and industrial practitioners.
Location
Princeton, New Jerseywebsite
Start Year
Microelectronics and IT
Microelectronics, Sensing, and IT
Lead Institution
Core Partners
Fact Sheet
Outcome/Accomplishment
In its tenth year the NSF-funded Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE) Engineering Research Center (ERC), headquartered at Princeton University, adopted a new Summer Activity format. First, MIRTHE hosted a Summer Symposium in June 2015 featuring technical talks from faculty and industry. Second, in late July, MIRTHE hosted a two-day Summer Research Presentation Workshop for participants in the REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program along with summer interns to showcase their summer research.
Location
Princeton, New Jerseywebsite
Start Year
Microelectronics and IT
Microelectronics, Sensing, and IT
Lead Institution
Core Partners
Fact Sheet
Impact/benefits
The overall vision of this two-session approach was to bring together the entire MIRTHE community in a format enabling the wide-ranging exchange of ideas, intense interdisciplinary networking, and socializing in an intellectual and technology-rich environment. As is evident from the figure below, this vision was realized.
Explanation/Background
To support the overall vision, MIRTHE's summer symposium and presentation workshop are conducted with several set goals:
(i) to provide a venue for all student participants (graduate, undergraduate, REU, and select K-12 students) to present their work in an intellectually rich and challenging environment;
(ii) to provide a venue for MIRTHE leadership to assess quality of research work conducted in the ERC;
(iii) to provide opportunities for formal interdisciplinary training through selected tutorials, invited speakers external to MIRTHE, and focus sessions; and
(iv) to connect the MIRTHE academic and industrial practitioners.