NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing semi-conductor technologies in the Northwest (OR, ID, WA)

NSF 发动机开发奖：推进西北地区（俄勒冈州、爱达荷州、华盛顿州）的半导体技术

• 批准号: 2303099
• 负责人: Pallavi Dhagat
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2303099&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Advancing

This NSF Engine Development Award is focused on eventually creating a semiconductor ecosystem in the northwest region of the United States. The project's region of service includes Oregon, Idaho, and Washington, and partner institutions include semiconductor manufacturing and supply chain industries, national laboratories, state and local governments, and educational institutions. The semiconductor ecosystem encompasses use-inspired research related to the semiconductor industry, expands innovation and entrepreneurship, creates training programs to enable a workforce that includes associate to graduate degrees, and increases access and awareness of diverse groups leading to recruitment into STEM fields. The leadership team includes Oregon State University, University of Washington, Boise State University, Oregon Business Council, and the City of Hillsboro, along with industry and national laboratory partners, including Intel, Micron, Meta, American Semiconductor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Idaho National Laboratories, and other organizations.Regional stakeholders have identified a need to catalyze R&D in several use-inspired semiconductor research areas. Initial technical focus areas include artificial intelligence and machine learning, semiconductors, nanolithography, memory, and beyond-Moore functionality. The leadership team will analyze the potential of these focus areas to advance semiconductor technology and then refine the scope and scale of the initial use-inspired research topics to have the greatest technical and economic impact on the region. The semiconductor ecosystem can accelerate translation through integrative programs supporting the full cycle from business case development to business funding while offering cohesive services around entrepreneurship and translation to practice as critical components of the innovation engine. Working closely with diversity, equity, inclusion, and access partners, this project will expand its impact to increase underrepresented minority participation in STEM degree programs and professional careers. Collaborations with regional STEM outreach efforts, community colleges, and undergraduate/graduate programs will be leveraged to train a diverse advanced workforce. The NSF Development Award enables the project team to create a framework for an Engine by identifying the state of practice and existing gaps, determining use-inspired research directions, emphasizing translation to practice, expanding workforce growth, and creating a strategic plan that integrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and access and a culture of innovation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

NSF发动机开发奖的重点是最终在美国西北地区创建一个半导体生态系统。该项目的服务地区包括俄勒冈州，爱达荷州和华盛顿，合作伙伴机构包括半导体制造和供应链行业，国家实验室，州和地方政府以及教育机构。半导体生态系统涵盖了与半导体行业相关的使用启发性研究，扩展了创新和企业家精神，创建了培训计划，以使包括毕业生的劳动力，并提高对跨性别群体的访问和认识，从而使各种群体的访问和认识导致转化为STEM领域。领导团队包括俄勒冈州立大学，华盛顿大学，波伊斯州立大学，俄勒冈州商业委员会和希尔斯伯勒市，以及包括英特尔，微米，元，美国半导体，太平洋西北国家实验室，爱达荷州国家实验室和其他国家组织的工业和国家实验室合作伙伴，包括核议利益的地区，可以确定一个需要努力的研究。最初的技术焦点领域包括人工智能和机器学习，半导体，纳米光刻，记忆和超越摩尔的功能。领导团队将分析这些重点领域推进半导体技术的潜力，然后完善最初使用使用的研究主题的范围和规模，从而对该地区产生最大的技术和经济影响。半导体生态系统可以通过综合计划来加速翻译，从而支持从业务案例开发到业务资金的整个周期，同时提供围绕企业家和翻译的凝聚力服务，作为创新引擎的关键组成部分。该项目与多样性，公平，包容和访问合作伙伴紧密合作，将扩大其影响力，以增加代表性不足的少数群体参与STEM学位课程和职业职业。将利用与区域STEM外展工作，社区大学和本科/研究生课程的合作来培训多样化的高级劳动力。 NSF开发奖使项目团队能够通过确定实践状态和现有差距来为引擎创建框架优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。