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AN ASSESSMENT OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING LABORATORY FISCAL YEAR 2008 Panel on Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory Assessments Board Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS Washington, D.C. www.nap.edu
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PANEL ON MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING NEIL A. DUFFIE, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Chair JAY RAMANATHAN, The Ohio State University, Vice Chair VIOLA L. ACOFF, University of Alabama CAROL L. JONES ADKINS, Sandia National Laboratories DELL K. ALLEN, Utah State University MARYLYN HOY BENNETT, Texas Instruments Inc. (retired) SRINIVASAN CHANDRASEKAR, Purdue University BENITO FERNANDEZ-RODRIGUEZ, University of Texas, Austin MARION B. GRANT, Caterpillar, Inc. STEVEN W. HOLLAND, General Motors Corporation MICHAEL R. JAHADI, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company RICHARD L. KEGG, Milacron Inc. (retired) KARL G. KEMPF, Intel Corporation THOMAS R. KURFESS, Clemson University JAY LEE, University of Cincinnati MARK C. MALBURG, Digital Metrology Solutions, Inc. CHIA-HSIANG MENQ, The Ohio State University CARMEN PANCERELLA, Sandia National Laboratories LIVIA RACZ, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. H. KUMAR WICKRAMASINGHE, University of California, Irvine JAMES C. WYANT, University of Arizona Staff JAMES P. McGEE, Director ARUL MOZHI, Senior Program Officer CY BUTNER, Senior Program Officer LIZA HAMILTON, Administrative Coordinator JONATHAN ELLSAESSER, Senior Project Assistant iv
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Contents SUMMARY 1 THE CHARGE TO THE PANEL AND THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS 5 INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS DIVISION 7 MANUFACTURING METROLOGY DIVISION 11 MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS INTEGRATION DIVISION 14 PRECISION ENGINEERING DIVISION 18 PROGRAMS FUNDED UNDER THE AMERICA COMPETES ACT 22 OVERALL CONCLUSIONS 23 vii
