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NSF NaNoSyStemS eNgiNeeriNg reSearch ceNter For
AdvAnced Self-Powered SyStemS of IntegrAted SenSorS And technologIeS
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education ProgramASSIST continues to develop adaptive and innovate graduate and un-dergraduate engineering and science students through an interactive community culture.
Programs like the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and Translational Engineering Skills Program (TESP) expand on the funda-mental knowledge of engineering and science while exposing stu-dents to significant research opportunities.
The ASSIST Center continues to expand its graduate programs by adding rigorous certificate coursework at each institution involved. These graduate programs train students to be capable of providing leadership in nanosystem engineering while providing strategic moti-vation to a diverse group of students.
NSF NaNoSyStemS eNgiNeeriNg reSearch ceNter For
AdvAnced Self-Powered SyStemS of IntegrAted SenSorS And technologIeS
Our Center envisions a paradigm shift in health informatics
enabled by wearable nanotechnologies that monitor
individual health parameters and environmental exposures.
Long-term sensing enables patients, doctors, and
scientists to make direct correlations between health and
environmental toxins leading to chronic disease prediction, management and treatment. ASSIST accelerates environmental health research and clin-ical trials as well as inform environmental policy.
Our mission is to use nanotechnology to improve global health by enabling a correla-tion between personal health and personal environment, and by empowering patients and doctors to mange wellness and improve quality of life.
Working on a National Science Foundation grant of $18.5 million for 5 years with supplemental support from industry partners, our Center of Excellence pushes toward innovation within a number of research areas:
Energy Harvest and Storage
Low Power Emerging Nanoelectronics
Low Power Wearable Sensors
Low Power System-on-Chip
Wearability and Data
Pre-college education ProgramThe Center is devoted to the enrichment of pre-college students and teachers through strategic outreach programs with partner middle and high schools along the East Coast.
Programs like the Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) and Young Scholars provide teachers and students with enhanced engi-neering content knowledge, teaching methods, research opportuni-ties and excitement about engineering and science.
Middle and high school students are frequently engaged through summer camps, nano clubs and NanoDays activities on univer-sity campuses. ASSIST is committed to encourage diversity and increased interest in science and engineering majors and careers with pre-college students.
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researchProgramASSIStS SyStem-drIven reSeArch IS AccomPlIShed through fIve IntegrAted reSeArch thruStS:
Energy Harvesting and Storage - Developing efficient ways to harness en-ergy from the human body and convert it to usable forms, and store it in ultra-high-density capacitors
Low Power Emerging Nanoelectronics - Designing and building low-power electronics and antennae
Low Power Wearable Sensors - Developing low-power nanosensors and wearable interfaces
Low Power System-on-Chip - Integrating enabling nanotechnologies with intelligent chip power management strategies for computation, wireless communication and sensing
Wearability and Data - Proving and improving the technologies through hierarchical and heterogeneous integration and testing in a wearable, com-fortable, biocompatible, self-powered sensor system (e.g. wrist band, patch and tooth cap.)
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Multimodal correlation of health and environmental parameters to help elucidate the causes of exposure-related respiratory illnesses.
Battery-less, open architecture sensor platform using continuous energy harvest-ing to ensure vigilant cardiac monitoring.
health and environmental tracker (het)
Self-Powered and Adaptive low Power Sensing Platform (SAP)
Testbeds
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Industry engagement ProgramASSIST partners with many outside companies and public health professionals, including industry leaders, such as: Samsung and Nike. Ranging from small start up companies to large scale operations, ASSIST partners help guide the directional path of Center re-search.
Partnership provides valuable benefits for both industry and the ASSIST Center. Tech-nology collaboration, sponsored research and industry engagement provides enriching experiences for the Center, its students and industry partners.
ASSIST works to enhance the U.S. industrial competitiveness by helping faculty craft useful research questions, helping industry partners improve innovation practices, train-ing talented students in commercial innovation breakthroughs and stimulating start-up ventures and job creation.
Industry Advisory Board ASSIST Industry Members leverage research funds, havie early access to ASSIST inventions and (highly collaborative relationships) with ASSIST students and gradu-ates. ASSIST Industry Members comprise a board of advisors to the Center that have voting ability to:
Guide the Centers research agenda
Review Center reports and operating budgets
Make policy recommendations
Review internal proposals for research funding
Recommend priorities to the Director and Leadership Team
Recommend projects of mutual interest to be funded from membership fees
Authorize Intellectual Property Protection Fund support for provisional patents
transformational Impact The ASSIST Team is passionate about developing new, integrated tech-nologies that are enabling a new era of data-driven medicine, tying cause to effect and permitting revolutionary and affordable advances
in quality of healthcare. We aim to:
Empower patients and doctors with relevant and rapid individual health data leading to more rapid diagnoses, optimized treatments and post-treatment decisions
Enable more accurate correlations between health and individual environmental exposures
Arm doctors with safe alternatives to unnecessary hospitalizations and expensive medical tests
Excite a new and diverse generation of engineers for a globally aware society
Produce engineering graduates who will be creative innovators and entrepreneurs
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FacultyInterim Deputy Director
mehmet ozturk Professor of electrical engineering and Director NcSU Nanofabrica-tion Facility Nc State University
Medical DirectorDr. David Peden, m.D. Senior associate Dean for transla-tional researchUNc School of medicine
Partner Campus Directors
Dr. John LachProfessor and head of electrical and computer engineering University of Virginia
Dr. Shekhar BhansaliProfessor and head Department of electrical and computer engineering Florida international University
Interim Education Director
Dr. elena Veety teaching assistant Professor, Dept. electrical and computer engineeringNc State University
Diversity Director
Dr. roy charles Diversity Director, aSSiSt center and FreeDm Systems centerNc State University
Pre-College Education Director
Dr. gail JonesProfessor of math, Science and technology educationNc State University
Industry Collaboration and Innovation Director
tom SnyderNc State University
Thrust 1
Energy Harvesting & StorageLeader: Dr. Susan trolier-mcKinstryProfessor of ceramic Science and engineer-ing; Director, Keck Smart materials integration Laboratory Penn State University
Thrust V
Wearability and DataLeader: Dr. Jesse Jur assistant Professor, college of textilesNc State University
Center DirectorDr. Veena Misra
Dr. Mehmet Ozturk Tom Snyder Dr. Rajinder Khosla Dr. Roy Charles
Dr. Gail Jones Dr. Elena Veety
Thrust III
Low Power Wearable SensorsLeader: Dr. omer oralkanassociate Professor of electrical and computer engineering Nc State University
Thrust II
Low-power Emerging NanoelectronicsLeader: Dr. Suman Dattamonkowski Professor of electrical engineering Penn State University
Thrust VI
Low Power System-on-ChipLeader: Dr. Benton calhounassociate Professor of electrical and computer engineering University of Virginia
Crosscutting Metrology and Multiscale Modeling
Crosscutting Medical Physiology and Environmental Metrics
co-Leader: Dr. David Peden, m.D. Senior associate Dean for translational researchUNc School of medicine
co-Leader: Dr. John LachProfessor and head of electrical and computer engineeringUniversity of Virginia
ASSISTDr. Benton Calhoun Dr. Jesse Jur Dr. John Lach Dr. Shekhar Bhansali
Dr. David Peden Dr. Susan Trolier-McK-instry
Dr. Suman Datta
Dr. Omer Oralkan
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Core Partner InstitutionsNC State UniversityPenn State UniversityUniversity of Virginia Florida International University
Collaborating InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan UNC Chapel Hill Kaist Tokyo Tech University of Adelaide
Leadership Team
Veena Misra, Ph.D. Center Director / Professor
Mehmet Ozturk, Ph.D. Interim Deputy Director
Elena Veety, Ph.D. Interim Education Director
Roy Charles, Ph.D. Diversity Director
Tom Snyder Industry Liaison
Malakai Erskine Administrative Director
North carolina State Universitycampus Box 7564 | monteith engineering research center 2410 campus Shore Drive | raleigh, Nc 27695-7564
assistcenter@ncsu.edu | phone: 919-515-1450 | Fax: 919.515.3024twitter: @aSSiSt_NcSU
assist.ncsu.edu
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