Research Teams and Partnerships Trends in the Chemical Sciences, Report of a Workshop (1999) / Chapter Skim
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4 Research Teams at Universities: The Center for Interfacial Engineering
4 Research Teams at Universities: The Center for Interfacial Engineering
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Produce well-educated graduates who can apply their knowledge of interracial operations to new processes in a productive manner. The expectation is that the research program will be first rate, addressing issues that will impact national competitiveness and will be carried out in direct collaboration with industrial researchers.
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Because an ERC's operation involves handling millions of dollars from the federal government, the University of Minnesota, and member companies, the activity attracts auditors like vultures to prey. Dealing with the expectations of companies and simultaneously with the rules and regulations of two major bureaucratic organizations requires a sophisticated and highly skilled staff.
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· Affiliates, who pay 0.03 percent of annual sales with a cap of $30,000 and are involved in only one of the research programs. Company involvement in the center is governed by a standard membership agreement between the university and the company.
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Our premise is that companies offer the university every bit as much as the university offers companies. Translating this belief into realization requires driving a cultural change that, if successful, leads to the establishment of a true partnership between university and company researchers.
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One of the hallmarks of an ERC operation is the development of a strategic plan to guide the development of the center's program and provide benchmarks against which to measure progress. A number of the achievements are summarized as follows: Accelerated the development of interracial engineering as a new interdisciplinary field; Graduated 522 students with center experience; Established the Characterization Facility via a $7 million equipment investment; Delivered short courses and workshops to companies; Hosted some 123 company researchers on campus as Industrial Fellows; and Developed textbooks, multimedia instructional materials, courses, and practical experiences for students.
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flames Desveaux, University of California, Los Angeles: You have outlined an impressive degree of innovation and adaptation. A question by another member of the audience has spawned curiosity for me about some organizational design issues, related to the different types of industrial partnerships permitted under the arrangements you described.
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Matthew Tirrell: Upon the receipt of the award for the new Material Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) , we structured, in concert with our member companies, the "CIE/MRSEC Industrial Partnership" which allows companies to participate in the activities of either or both centers by executing a standard participation agreement.
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We have solicited "nuggets" from companies regarding the benefits from their participation in the center. In one case, the company reported savings of over $25 million thanks to the application of a technique learned by one of its Industrial Fellows during a campus residency.
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