The Ohio State University will become a research site partner in the multi-university Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Telecommunications, Integrated Circuits and Systems. The research site will provide the capabilities, expertise, and research facilities for conducting collaborative research in the multi-university research program. The collaborative research will enhance the research/education activities within the group and advance the state-of-the-art of the wireless communications technology, and establish stronger ties with industry.

Project Report

By all means, this was an extremely successful center, and its activities were continued in Phase II. This Phase I project was extended in A brief summary of the center accomplishments are: 1. 15 faculty from different Laboratories (OSU-ESL, Analog VLSI, non-linear RF Laboratory, MicroMD, Solid State and Information Processing Systems). These Labs have had strong ties with the semiconductor and telecommunication industries, and all major defense companies (with several led by our noted). In addition to funding from NSF and the DoD, much of our sponsorship has come from industry, including grants and contracts from the Semiconductor Research Corporation, Texas Instruments, Intel Corp, Ansoft, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Raytheon, Harris Corp., Scitor, ATK, Traycer and SAIC among others 2. No. of companies that funded the center over the first 5 years: 18 3. No. of participating faculty:15 4. No. of projects carried out of the first five years: 27 5. No. of students (Grad students and Postdocs) supported: 36 students + 3 post-docs; Current annual numbers are: 3 Post-Docs (2 Female),and about 10 graduate students (3 Female). 6. Partnered or Led i4 NSF supplemental awards over the first 5 years 7. Average Center site funding per year (1st 5 years)= $452k (including NSF’s support and MiPRs) 8. 44 journal papers were published during the 1st 5 years (this number is currently at 88 papers, viz including the Phase II continuation) 9. 50 conference papers were presented (this number is currently at 70 papers). 10. 6 books were published by Center faculty, including the caveted Antenna Engineering handbook (an 1800pp handbook). 11. Applied for 13 patents (as of now) and at least 7 were awarded. Currently in negotiations with Bridgestone and Orton Foundation for licensing 2 technologies. 12. Several software packages were developed. Particularly two of the projects (one on antennas and another on imaging and gate detection of fabrication defects) have heavy development of software tools. In addition, Prof. Jin Fa Lee’s project was primarily focused on new fast algorithms for optimal design optimizations of large scale systems. His software algorithms are part of ANSYS/ANSOFT HFSS suite. 13. Web sites created Center Web Site: www.eng.ohio-state.edu/~connectionone www.ece.osu.edu/~berger/summ_homeland_security06.html

Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Institute
Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)
Application #
0631286
Program Officer
Lawrence A. Hornak
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2006-08-01
Budget End
2014-07-31
Support Year
Fiscal Year
2006
Total Cost
$2,207,911
Indirect Cost
Name
Ohio State University
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Columbus
State
OH
Country
United States
Zip Code
43210