NSF NaNoSyStemS eNgiNeeriNg reSearch ceNter For

AdvAnced Self-Powered SyStemS of IntegrAted SenSorS And technologIeS

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.

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

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

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

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

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