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2. Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 7-11

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... CONCLUSIONS 2. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Based on the considerations outlined in Chapter 1, we conclude that to facilitate the timely response of the SACAM community to the variety of challenges and oppor tunities we expect it to encounter, it is necessary to o Attract potentially able researchers into SACAM and ensure that they receive rigorous, in-depth training in one of the disciplines central to the field.
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... The first, self-help, includes steps that the materials research community should take to strengthen SACAM to meet future challenges, opportunities, and needs. The second, institutional measures, deals with university and industry actions that could help to ensure a consistent flow of high-quality research in the basic sciences and technologies relevant to SACAM, improve interdisciplinary and collaborative interactions, and attract and train new generations of solidly grounded, innovative researchers and technologists in SACAM and related fields.
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... Examples of such activities are the laboratories at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) , where students prepare an integrated circuit starting with a Si chip, and the introductory solid-state chemistry course offered at MIT, which is described in Appendix E
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... Funding agencies must carefully monitor the materials research laboratories (MRLs) and regional centers to ensure that their efforts are appropriately focused and that needed interdisciplinary team interactions occur.
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... Judicious equipment support in these ranges by the funding agencies could result in significant improvements in the quality and quantity of SACAM research, particularly that conducted at universities. In this regard, the DOD-University Research Instrumentation Program is a noteworthy development.
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