This proposal requests partial support for US Students who will be presenting papers at the IEEE International Conference on micro-electromechanical systems at the MEMS 2000 conference to be held at the Seagaia complex in Miyazaki, Japan from January 23-27, 2000. As in the past year the conference is co-sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. The conference has a strong interdisciplinary scope, serving the electrical, mechanical, bio-medical, and the material engineering communities. The conference is expected to have about 130 papers.
