The Multi-functional Integrated System Technology (MIST) Center is excited to announce that it has received a Phase II award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) at all three of its sites; University of Florida, University of Central Florida and University of Virginia!
Phase I Accomplishments
The award was due largely due to the strong recommendations of MIST’s Industry Advisory Board (IAB), as well as its strong performance in Phase I. In Phase I, the MIST Center accomplished $3M in direct research expenditures (71 projects over five years), sent 79 pre-publication submissions to the IAB, submitted 12 invention disclosures (6 patents licensed), trained 88 graduate students and 61 undergraduate students, together with three participating universities and 17 member organizations (+2 alumni).
Spring Meeting and Phase II Kickoff
The MIST Center will hold its biannual meeting on May 13 to review 2020 project status. Due to COVID19, this meeting will be a one-day virtual meeting. Project reports will occur at scheduled times throughout the day followed by a business meeting to discuss new initiatives. Posters and slides will be provided in advance.
Non-MIST members are welcome to attend pending approval and a signed confidential disclosure agreement. Registration is free but required. Register today for the meeting. https://forms.gle/KJSd6Det2k7zurFt8
About the NSF’s Industry–University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) Program
The IUCRC program enables industrially-relevant, pre-competitive research via a multi-member, sustained partnerships among industry, academe, and government. NSF supports the development and evolution of IUCRCs, providing a financial and procedural framework for membership and operations in addition to best practices learned over decades of fostering public/private partnerships that provide significant value to the nation, industry and university faculty and students.
Centers bring together IUCRC sites (faculty and students from different academic institutions) and IUCRC members (companies, state/federal/local government and non-profits) to perform cutting-edge, pre-competitive fundamental research in science, engineering, technology area(s) of interest to industry and that can drive innovation and the U.S. economy. Members guide the direction of Center research through active involvement and mentoring.
IUCRCs offer a platform for significant leveraging of financial investment by members to accelerate the knowledge base in emerging technological and manufacturing sectors and develop
About MIST Center
The Multi-functional Integrated System Technology (MIST) Center is an NSF I/UCRC led by the University of Florida (UF) with University of Central Florida (UCF) and University of Virginia (UVA), and is focused on the hardware technologies necessary to propel the next generation of smart mobile sensing/computing/communication systems. The MIST Center vision is ‘to innovate More than Moore hardware technologies for smart systems in the IoT era’. This is accomplished by translating novel materials, devices, and manufacturing processes into multi-functional integrated systems via partnership with our industry/government partners. MIST’s focus is on the multi-functional hardware for the Smart-X IoT node with research structured around five requisite technology thrust areas: sensing, computing, wireless, power, and integration. MIST faculty combine complementary expertise in materials science, devices, electronics, magnetics, acoustics, photonics, microfluidics, MEMS, and circuits to tackle complex research challenges that are critical to the development of multi-functional integrated systems.