{"144931":{"#nid":"144931","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Third Class of Stem Cell Biomanufacturing IGERT Trainees Selected","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program in Stem Cell Biomanufacturing announced its third class of Ph.D. student trainees. The five new graduate students come from a wide variety of disciplines including the School of Chemical and Biomolecular \u0026nbsp;Engineering, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis grant provides a unique training opportunity for top engineering graduate students looking to understand how to control stem cells into clinically relevant numbers,\u201d stated Todd McDevitt, PhD.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMcDevitt, associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering is co-directing the IGERT program with Robert M. Nerem, professor emeritus of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. \u0026nbsp;McDevitt is also director of the Stem Cell Engineering Center which administers this award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecently highlighted by Nature magazine as one of the \u201cout of the box\u201d manufacturing educational programs in the country, the $3 million NSF-funded IGERT was awarded to Georgia Tech in 2010 to educate and train the first generation of Ph.D. students in the translation and commercialization of stem cell technologies for diagnostic and therapeutic applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Stem Cell Biomanufacturing IGERT program supports new incoming Georgia Tech Ph.D. students for their first two years of graduate school. The program offers a core curriculum in stem cell engineering and bioprocessing coupled with elective tracks in advanced technologies, public policy, ethics or entrepreneurship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe current state of the field of stem cell research offers a unique opportunity for engineers to contribute significantly to the generation of robust, reproducible and scalable methods for phenotypic characterization, propagation, differentiation and bioprocessing of stem cells,\u201d McDevitt added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETrainees are afforded opportunities to meet with leading experts in the field who visit as part of the Stem Cell Engineering seminar series, attend the annual stem cell engineering workshop, participate in outreach activities and interact with representatives from leading companies during Georgia Tech\u2019s annual Bio Industry Symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Stem Cell Biomanufacturing IGERT award will support at least 30 graduate students over the 5 years of the award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E2012 Trainees \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOlivia Burnsed - Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEfrain Cermeno - Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlbert Cheng - Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJose Garcia - George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEmily Jackson - School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2011 Trainees \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETom Bongiorno \u2013 George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERob Dromms \u2013 School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDevon Headen \u2013 Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGreg Holst \u2013 George W. 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Now a team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology has used complex computational models to design swimming micro-robots that could overcome these challenges to carry cargo and navigate in response to stimuli such as light.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen they\u2019re actually built some day, these simple micro-swimmers could rely on volume changes in unique materials known as hydrogels to move tiny flaps that will propel the robots. The micro-devices could be used in drug delivery, lab-on-a-chip microfluidic systems \u2013 and even as micro-construction robots working in swarms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe simple micro-swimmers were described July 23 in the online advance edition of the journal \u003Cem\u003ESoft Matter\u003C\/em\u003E, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe believe that our simulations will give experimentalists a reason to pursue development of these micro-swimmers to go beyond what is available now,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/alexeev\u0022\u003EAlexander Alexeev\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech. \u201cWe wanted to demonstrate the principle of how robots this small could move by determining what is important and what would need to be used to build a real system.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe simple swimmer designed by Alexeev and collaborators Hassan Masoud and Benjamin Bingham consists of a responsive gel body about ten microns long with two propulsive flaps attached to opposite sides. A steering flap sensitive to specific stimuli would be located at the front of the swimmer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe responsive gel body would undergo periodic expansions and contractions triggered by oscillatory chemical reactions, oscillating magnetic or electric fields, or by cycles of temperature change. These expansions and contractions \u2013 the chemical swelling and de-swelling of the material \u2013 would create a beating motion in the rigid propulsive flaps attached to each side of the micro-swimmer. Combined with the movement of the gel body, the beating motion would move the micro-swimmer forward.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe trajectory of the micro-swimmer would be controlled by a flexible steering flap on its front. The flap would be made of a material that deforms based on changes in light intensity, temperature or magnetic field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe combination of these flaps and the oscillating body creates a very nice motion that we believe can be used to propel the swimmer,\u201d said Alexeev. \u201cTo build a device that is autonomous and self-propelling at the micron-scale, we cannot build a tiny submarine. We have to keep it simple.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKey to the operation of the micro-swimmer would be the latest generation of hydrogels, materials whose volume changes in a cyclical way. The hydrogels would serve as \u201cchemical engines\u201d to provide the motion needed to move the device\u2019s propulsive flaps. Such materials currently exist and are being improved upon for other applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are using the state-of-the art in materials science, changing the properties of the material,\u201d explained Masoud, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Mechanical Engineering. \u201cWe have combined the materials with the principles of hydrodynamics at the small scale to develop this new swimmer.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs part of their modeling, the researchers examined the effects of flaps of different sizes and properties. They also studied how flexible the micro-swimmer\u2019s body needed to be to produce the kind of movement needed for swimming.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou can\u2019t swim at the small scale in the same way you swim at the large scale,\u201d Alexeev said. \u201cThere is no inertia, which is how you keep moving at the large scale. What happens at the small scale is counterintuitive to what you expect at the large scale.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe computational fluid modeling the researchers used allowed them to study a wide range of parameters in materials, oscillation rates and flexibility. What they learned, Alexeev said, will give experimentalists a starting point for actually building prototypes of the flexible gel robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have captured the solid mechanics of the periodically-oscillating body, the fluid dynamics of moving through the viscous liquid, and the coupling between the two,\u201d he said. \u201cFrom a computational fluid dynamics standpoint, it\u2019s not an easy problem to model at this scale.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, the researchers hope to work with an experimental team to actually build the micro-swimmers. Combining their theoretical work with actual experiments could be a powerful approach to building robots on this size scale.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a simulation that we hope to see in real life one day,\u201d Alexeev said. \u201cWe have learned how experimentalists can pursue fabrication of these devices without extensive trial-and-error. We can use the simulations to look inside what will happen by using the laws of physics to explain it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers envision groups of micro-swimmers carrying cargo through microfluidic chips or other devices. Swarms of them could one day work together as tiny construction robots moving materials to desired locations for assembly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut the micro-swimmers won\u2019t win any Olympic competitions. Alexeev estimates that their top speed could be on the order of a few micrometers per second \u2013 which should be enough to accomplish their mission.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf your body is micrometers in size, that kind of speed is really not too bad,\u201d he said. \u201cThe swimming speed will be rather slow, but at that size scale, you don\u2019t really need to go very fast since you only need to go short distances.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECitation\u003C\/strong\u003E: Hassan Masoud, Benjamin I. Bingham and Alexander Alexeev, Soft Matter, 2012, Advance Article. 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Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (Petit Institute) awarded $50,000 to three interdisciplinary teams under its Petit Bioengineering and Bioscience Collaborative Seed Grant program, which was created to support early-stage innovative biotechnology research. Proposals were submitted by teams comprised of two Petit Institute faculty with appointments in different academic colleges. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThe overall quality of the twelve collaborative proposals submitted this year was exceptionally high and we are very excited about the three projects selected for funding. In each case, we are bringing together a scientist and an engineer who have not previously worked together,\u201d said Robert E. Guldberg, PhD, executive director of the Petit Institute. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne team, Andrew Lyon, PhD, professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Wallace H. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and Randy Trumbower, PT, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Division of Physical Therapy at Emory and the School of Applied Physiology at Georgia Tech, will explore a non-invasive approach to improving motor recovery after incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) using a novel breathing intervention. Combining Ting\u2019s expertise in neuromechanics of movement with Trumbower\u2019s expertise in spinal cord injury rehabilitation, they will use state-of-the-art computational methods to test whether acute intermittent hypoxia, or breathing low oxygen levels, induces neural plasticity in the spinal cord, altering muscle coordination in a manner that improves walking function in persons with incomplete SCI. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFunding for the new seed grants comes chiefly from the Petit Institute\u0027s endowment as well as contributions from the College of Sciences and the College of Engineering. Each team will receive $50,000 a year for two years; however, the second year of funding will be contingent on submission of an external collaborative grant proposal. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThis initiative embraces the Petit Institute\u2019s mission, funding cutting-edge research at the interface of bioengineering and the biosciences,\u201d Guldberg added. \u201cWe look forward to seeing the progress made by these teams as they establish preliminary results to apply for large external grant proposals.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"$50,000 seed grants awarded to support early-stage innovative biotechnology research"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E$50,000 seed grants awarded to support early-stage innovative biotechnology research.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"$50,000 seed grants awarded to support early-stage innovative biotechnology research."}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2012-07-23 13:30:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:33","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"69773":{"id":"69773","type":"image","title":"Parker H. 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Starting fall 2012, a total of 11 \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtpe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Professional Education\u003C\/a\u003E courses will be offered at the Savannah campus in the areas of Lean Healthcare, Lean \u0026amp; Process Improvement, Occupational Safety \u0026amp; Health, Project Management, and Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Management.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech Professional Education seeks to provide innovative educational opportunities to foster professional, economic and workforce development,\u201d said Nelson Baker, dean of Georgia Tech Professional Education. \u201cWe are further supporting an individual\u2019s quest to advance their careers and remain more competitive in their place of employment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETaught by top Georgia Tech faculty and leading industry experts, Georgia Tech Professional Education courses are relevant and immediately applicable in the workplace. Registration for all courses is now open. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtpe.gatech.edu\/gts-fall\u0022\u003EIndividuals who register 30 days or more in advance will receive a 15 percent discount on course fees.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Courses include:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELean Overview and Simulation for Healthcare \u2013 Sept. 13\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELean for Healthcare:\u0026nbsp; Turnover Time Reduction \u2013 Sept. 14\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGrain Handling Safety \u2013 Sept. 20\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETransportation and Distribution Planning and Management \u2013 Oct. 2-4\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETrainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry \u2013 Oct. 29-Nov.2\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETrainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for General Industry \u2013 Oct. 29-Nov.2\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELean Manufacturing:\u0026nbsp; Overview and Live Simulation \u2013 Nov. 5\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELean and Safe: Safety Integrated Process Improvement \u2013 Nov. 6-8\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIntroduction to Safety and Health Program Management \u2013 Nov. 9\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EProject Management Introduction: Fundamentals to Successful Projects \u2013 Oct. 16-17\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EProject Management:\u0026nbsp; Managing Risk and Procurements \u2013 Dec. 11 -13\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe mission of Georgia Tech Professional Education is to develop an educated workforce that is prepared to lead our industries and communities. The division has global impact by supporting economic development via commercialization, innovation and advancing knowledge through research and discovery. In the last year alone, Georgia Tech Professional Education had an overall \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/savannahnow.com\/column\/2012-06-03\/baker-georgia-tech-savannah-has-new-focus\u0022\u003Eenrollment\u003C\/a\u003E of 28,000 students from around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOver the next year, we will look at other programs that tie the global strengths of Georgia Tech with local and regional assets to better provide education to industry partners, businesses and military organizations, as well as visitors and students from abroad,\u201d said Baker. \u201cWe are empowering people to learn, and are connecting and expanding our global learning community to meet the evolving needs of students.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Professional Education programs do not have minimum requirements or other prerequisites for enrollment. For more information and a complete description of upcoming professional education courses at Georgia Tech-Savannah, visit: \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtpe.gatech.edu\/gts-fall\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.gtpe.gatech.edu\/gts-fall\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E###\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Georgia Tech Professional Education\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Tech Professional Education is an academic division of the \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology,\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E which consistently ranks as one of the nation\u2019s top 10 public universities by U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report. Professional Education offers professional master\u0027s programs, short courses, and \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtpe.gatech.edu\/news-room\/press-releases\/distance-learning-and-professional-education-gets-name-change\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ecertificate programs\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E to meet the needs of working professionals and industry partners. Programs are available worldwide through a variety of face-to-face, blended learning, online and\/or distance learning formats. In addition to professional course offerings, the division administers K-12 outreach and English proficiency programs, and manages a meeting and event facility. Professional Education serves and educates more than 3,100 companies and over 13,000 individuals on an annual basis, and is located at the \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatechcenter.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Tech Global Learning Center\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E in Atlanta and at the \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/savannah.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Tech-Savannah\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E campus.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology has scheduled its first series of professional education courses at Georgia Tech-Savannah in order to serve a broader population of adult learners and working professionals. 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Leveraging experience and guidance from established entrepreneurs and a targeted curriculum, I-Corps attendees learn to identify valuable product opportunities that can emerge from academic research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond Georgia Tech, the NSF will also establish an I-Corps network node at the University of Michigan. By adding these two institutions to its I-Corps program \u2013 which began at Stanford University \u2013 the NSF will replicate the I-Corps curriculum across the country and begin creating a national network to identify emerging technology concepts that have potential to transition into economically viable products.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of Georgia Tech\u2019s strengths is its ability to provide the links needed to help move scientific research quickly from the lab to products coming off the manufacturing floor,\u201d said G. 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Georgia Tech will also teach the I-Corps curriculum to cohorts of NSF-designated teams from around the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThrough our translation-friendly technology transfer policies and our 11-year-old VentureLab program, Georgia Tech has built a repeatable process for successfully generating new companies from research at the university,\u201d said Stephen Fleming, a Georgia Tech vice president and executive director of the Enterprise Innovation Institute. \u201cNow we will be able to share with participants of the NSF I-Corps program our experience and commitment to developing best practices in the science of vetting ideas for their suitability to be successful startups.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of two seven-week summer 2012 I-Corps classes began July 9 at Georgia Tech and the fall class will begin at Georgia Tech on Oct. 1, 2012. Spanning a broad range of potential products and research areas, the 27 teams in the summer class are participating in a specially designed training curriculum, obtaining guidance and mentoring from private- and public-sector experts \u2013 including technology developers, business leaders and venture capitalists. They have received $50,000 grants to begin assessing the commercial readiness of their technology concepts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeth Mynatt, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing, and Ioannis Brilakis, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Building Construction and the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, have previously participated as principal investigators in the I-Corps program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe I-Corps program provides a critical missing piece for a university committed to translating research insights into commercial innovations,\u201d said Mynatt. \u201cWorking in three-person teams that included research expertise, entrepreneurial focus and business mentorship provided us with a focus on identifying commercial value. The method to the madness is testing \u2018hypotheses\u2019 of possible value instead of trying to build a fictitious business model. The best teams \u2018pivot\u2019 rapidly by testing these hypotheses and focusing on specific opportunities.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMynatt led a team developing \u201cSmartMenu,\u201d an online tool for helping diners choose the best meals for their specific needs. \u201cWe honed our product ideas and made numerous discoveries along the way,\u201d she added. \u201cAccess to business mentors in the program was invaluable and resulted in a number of important introductions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech I-Corps network node will expand the NSF\u2019s cadre of innovation experts that are mentoring on effective practices for leveraging outcomes of basic research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAcademic researchers already have many skills valuable for success in business, such as critical thinking, teamwork and an ability to move in a new direction and learn when a hypothesis proves false,\u201d says Errol Arkilic, NSF program director for I-Corps.\u0026nbsp; \u201cThe NSF I-Corps builds upon that expertise, introducing researchers to the business community and teaching them to seek, and speak to, the needs of potential customers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENearly 50 teams \u2013 composed of academic researchers, student entrepreneurs (undergraduates, graduate students and post-docs), and business mentors \u2013 have participated so far in the six-month I-Corps program. 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For more information, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ctt.marketwire.com\/?release=875704\u0026amp;id=1497382\u0026amp;type=1\u0026amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.coursera.org%2f\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECoursera.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology has signed an agreement with Coursera to put their web-based courses online and create new opportunities for hands-on learning in the classroom.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech has signed an agreement with Coursera to put their web-based courses online and create new opportunities for hands-on learning in the classroom."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2012-07-17 07:39:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:33","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.coursera.org\/","title":"Coursera"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.c21u.gatech.edu\/","title":"C21U"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtpe.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Professional Education"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"28751","name":"C21U; Center for 21st Century Universities; Richard DeMillo; Higher Education;"},{"id":"38281","name":"Coursera"},{"id":"9038","name":"G.P."},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"13997","name":"nelson baker"},{"id":"2662","name":"professional education"},{"id":"10243","name":"rafael bras"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["mattnagel@hotmail.com"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"138981":{"#nid":"138981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Robot Vision: Muscle-Like Action Allows Camera to Mimic Human Eye Movement","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUsing piezoelectric materials, researchers have replicated the muscle motion of the human eye to control camera systems in a way designed to improve the operation of robots. This new muscle-like action could help make robotic tools safer and more effective for MRI-guided surgery and robotic rehabilitation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKey to the new control system is a piezoelectric cellular actuator that uses a novel biologically inspired technology that will allow a robot eye to move more like a real eye. This will be useful for research studies on human eye movement as well as making video feeds from robots more intuitive. The research is being conducted by Ph.D. candidate Joshua Schultz under the direction of assistant professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/ueda\u0022\u003EJun Ueda\u003C\/a\u003E, both from the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor a robot to be truly bio-inspired, it should possess actuation, or motion generators, with properties in common with the musculature of biological organisms,\u201d said Schultz. \u201cThe actuators developed in our lab embody many properties in common with biological muscle, especially a cellular structure. Essentially, in the human eye muscles are controlled by neural impulses. Eventually, the actuators we are developing will be used to capture the kinematics and performance of the human eye.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDetails of the research were presented June 25, 2012, at the IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics in Rome, Italy. The research is funded by National Science Foundation. Schultz also receives partial support from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUeda, who leads the Georgia Tech Bio-Robotics and Human Modeling Laboratory in the School of Mechanical Engineering, said this novel technology will lay the groundwork for investigating research questions in systems that possess a large number of active units operating together. The application ranges from industrial robots, medical and rehabilitation robots to intelligent assistive robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRobustness against uncertainty of model and environment is crucial for robots physically interacting with humans and environments,\u201d said Ueda. \u201cSuccessful integration relies on the coordinated design of control, structure, actuators and sensors by considering the dynamic interaction among them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPiezoelectric materials expand or contract when electricity is applied to them, providing a way to transform input signals into motion. This principle is the basis for piezoelectric actuators that have been used in numerous applications, but use in robotics applications has been limited due to piezoelectric ceramic\u0027s minuscule displacement. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe cellular actuator concept developed by the research team was inspired by biological muscle structure that connects many small actuator units in series or in parallel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech team has developed a lightweight, high speed approach that includes a single-degree of freedom camera positioner that can be used to illustrate and understand the performance and control of biologically inspired actuator technology. This new technology uses less energy than traditional camera positioning mechanisms and is compliant for more flexibility.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEach muscle-like actuator has a piezoelectric material and a nested hierarchical set of strain amplifying mechanisms,\u201d said Ueda. \u201cWe are presenting a mathematical concept that can be used to predict the performance as well as select the required geometry of nested structures. We use the design of the camera positioning mechanism\u2019s actuators to demonstrate the concepts.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe scientists\u2019 research shows mechanisms that can scale up the displacement of piezoelectric stacks to the range of the ocular positioning system. In the past, the piezoelectric stacks available for this purpose have been too small.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur research shows a two-port network model that describes compliant strain amplification mechanisms that increase the stroke length of the stacks,\u201d said Schultz. \u201cOur findings make a contribution to the use of piezoelectric stack devices in robotics, modeling, design and simulation of compliant mechanisms. It also advances the control of systems using a large number of motor units for a given degree of freedom and control of robotic actuators.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the study, the scientists sought to resolve a previous conundrum. A cable-driven eye could produce the eye\u2019s kinematics, but rigid servomotors would not allow researchers to test the hypothesis for the neurological basis for eye motion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome measure of flexibility could be used in software with traditional actuators, but it depended largely on having a continuously variable control signal and it could not show how flexibility could be maintained with quantized actuation corresponding to neural recruitment phenomena.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEach muscle-like actuator consists of a piezoelectric material and a nested hierarchical set of strain amplifying mechanisms,\u201d said Ueda. \u201cUnlike traditional actuators, piezoelectric cellular actuators are governed by the working principles of muscles - namely, motion results by discretely activating, or recruiting, sets of active fibers, called motor units.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMotor units are linked by flexible tissue, which serves a two-fold function,\u201d said Ueda. \u201cIt combines the action potential of each motor unit, and presents a compliant interface with the world, which is critical in unstructured environments.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech team has presented a camera positioner driven by a novel cellular actuator technology, using a contractile ceramic to generate motion. The team used 16 amplified piezoelectric stacks per side.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe use of multiple stacks addressed the need for more layers of amplification. The units were placed inside a rhomboidal mechanism. The work offers an analysis of the force-displacement tradeoffs involved in the actuator design and shows how to find geometry that meets the requirement of the camera positioner, said Schultz.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe goal of scaling up piezoelectric ceramic stacks holds great potential to more accurately replicate human eye motion than previous actuators,\u201d noted Schultz. \u201cFuture work in this area will involve implantation of this technology on a multi-degree of freedom device, applying open and closed loop control algorithms for positioning and analysis of co-contraction phenomena.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFuture research by his team will continue to focus on the development of a design framework for highly integrated robotic systems. This ranges from industrial robots to medical and rehabilitation robots to intelligent assistive robots. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 309\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30308\u0026nbsp; USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contact\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Sarah E. 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From miniature Yoda heads crafted on 3D printers to a miniature wooden bulldozer that would light up the eyes of any toddler, the studio is clearly a hotbed of Georgia Tech students\u2019 creativity and innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EManaged by the Makers Club, the Georgia Tech Invention Studio has been around since 2008, when an old mailroom was transformed into a small machine room. Almost four years later, it has expanded into a 1,000-square-foot space with cutting-edge prototyping equipment that students of all disciplines can use to get real-world designing and building skills.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe studio is now comprised of three separate rooms on the second floor of the Manufacturing Related Discipline Complex containing several high-end pieces of equipment, including a water jet and a hot injection mold machine. The studio recently obtained two additional laser cutters to meet growing student demand. One student expanded the functionality of these cutters by writing a code that enables the machine to cut patterns that can then be assembled into 3-D creations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe cutting-edge tools we have are due to very generous support from the Institute\u2019s student technology fee and from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/inventionstudio.gatech.edu\/sponsors\/\u0022\u003Ecorporate sponsorship\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d said Craig Forest, mechanical engineering professor and faculty advisor for the Invention Studio. \u201cWe want to send forward inventors and engineers into society by providing a home for design-build education and culture. The studio is a small step in the right direction.\u201d Hands-on education is also a fundamental aspect of the Institute\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gatech.edu\/vision\/projects\/burdell-center-interactive-design\u0022\u003EStrategic Plan\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThough originally established to provide mechanical engineering capstone students with a workspace to foster collaboration and efficiency, the Invention Studio welcomes students of all disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEric Weinhoffer, a fifth-year mechanical engineering student and outgoing president of the Makers Club, emphasizes the importance of applying theory learned in the classroom. \u201cBy leveraging the equipment in the Invention Studio, graduates are more desirable job candidates because of their abilities and skills,\u201d Weinhoffer says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EApproximately 50 undergraduate laboratory instructors, or ULIs, staff the lab each week and are available to teach visitors how to use the space\u2019s equipment and resources. Workshop facilitators also volunteer in the studio, teaching techniques and skills in woodworking, knitting, rocketry and other specialized areas. After experimenting with machines and attending workshops, students are eligible to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/inventionstudio.gatech.edu\/get-involved\/\u0022\u003Eapply\u003C\/a\u003E to become a volunteer ULI or workshop facilitator, and also become a member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/inventionstudio.gatech.edu\/makersclub\/\u0022\u003EMakers Club\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cKnowing how things are designed makes you a better engineer,\u201d added Chris Quintero, a recent alumnus and staff member in the studio.\u0026nbsp;In February, the White House took an interest in how the studio is doing that, interviewing Quintero and Weinhoffer for its\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2012\/02\/28\/making-makers-georgia-tech\u0022\u003EOffice of Science Technology and Policy blog\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPerhaps the most unusual characteristic is the student ownership of the space. \u201cI left one weekend and returned to find our new sitting blocks had been vinyl-printed with the studio logo,\u201d Quintero said. 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A patient\u2019s inflammatory response normally causes the majority of these therapeutic cells to die or migrate away from the area in need of repair.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo address this problem, a startup company based on technology developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology is creating an efficient, safe and repeatable delivery method that protects cells from death and migration from the treatment site. Using microbead technology developed in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWallace H. 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They worked with the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to license five patents from Boyan\u2019s lab for technology originally developed in the Georgia Tech\/Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissue (GTEC), which was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Then they secured $450,000, which included a Phase I SBIR grant from the U.S. Department of Defense and grants from the Georgia Research Alliance and the Coulter Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring Phase I of the SBIR grant, the researchers confirmed that as many as 250 human adult stem cells could remain viable in culture if they were encapsulated in a 200-micron-diameter bead made of natural algae materials and that they could release factors that enhance tissue regeneration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor the Phase II SBIR grant, we\u2019re going to examine whether delivering microbeads full of stem cells can enhance cartilage repair and regeneration of craniofacial defects in an animal model,\u201d said Boyan, who is the company\u2019s chief scientific officer. Boyan is also the associate dean for research and innovation in the Georgia Tech College of Engineering, the Price Gilbert, Jr. Chair in Tissue Engineering at Georgia Tech, and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe company will perform this research in its laboratory space located in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/atdc.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAdvanced Technology Development Center\u003C\/a\u003E (ATDC) biosciences incubator.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe company\u2019s ultimate goal is to commercialize the microbead technology for use in hospitals and by cell therapy companies. To help reach this goal, a group of students wrote a business plan for SpherIngenics last year through the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/tiger.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETI:GER\u003C\/a\u003E) program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team -- which included Coulter Department doctoral student Christopher Lee, Georgia Tech MBA students Chris Palazzola and Eric Diersen, and Emory University law students Bryan Stewart and Natalie Dana -- won third place in the 2011 Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition. 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For this reason, the honorary status of \u0022Fellow, Biomaterials Science and Engineering\u0022 (FBSE) was established.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EBoyan and Garc\u00eda have had significant accomplishments throughout their careers which include receiving awards from the Society for Biomaterials, authoring papers in leading biomaterials journals and they both have several biomaterials-related patents and invention disclosures.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EBoyan\u2019s research laboratory focuses on bone and cartilage cell biology and tissue engineering of musculoskeletal tissues. Researchers are investigating signaling pathways involved in implant osseointegration, or the connection between the bone and a material. Specifically, they are exploring how surface properties influence biological processes and pathways such as cell proliferation, differentiation, angiogenesis and apoptosis to better understand healing and regeneration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EBoyan was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering and other 2012 awards include and the Orthopaedic Research Society Women\u0027s Leadership Forum Award and she was named a fellow of the International Team for Implantology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGarc\u00eda\u2019s research activities center on analyses of cell adhesive forces and mechanotransduction, cell-biomaterial interactions and the engineering of biomaterials to control cell delivery and engraftment and tissue repair, including bone repair, therapeutic vascularization, pancreatic islet delivery for the treatment of diabetes, and inflammation and infection. These findings provide fundamental insights into mechanisms regulating cell-material interactions and constitute novel approaches to the engineering of bioactive materials for enhanced tissue repair.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGarc\u00eda was awarded the Clemson Award for Basic Research from the Society of Biomaterials and will be presented with that award in New Orleans in October 2012. 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They found the mosquito\u2019s strong exoskeleton and low mass render it impervious to falling raindrops.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research team, led by Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biology David Hu and his doctoral student Andrew Dickerson, found that mosquitoes receive low impact forces from raindrops because the mass of mosquitoes causes raindrops to lose little momentum upon impact. The results of the research will appear in the June 4 issue of the \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe most surprising part of this project was seeing the robustness this small flyer has in the rain,\u201d Dickerson said. \u201cIf you were to scale up the impact to human size, we would not survive. It would be like standing in the road and getting hit by a car.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat the researchers learned about mosquito flight could be used to enhance the design and features of micro-airborne vehicles, which are increasingly being used by law enforcement and the military in surveillance and search-and-rescue operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo study how mosquitoes fly in the rain, the research team constructed a flight arena consisting of a small acrylic cage covered with mesh to contain the mosquitoes but permit entry of water drops. They used a water jet to simulate rain stream velocity and observed six mosquitoes flying into the stream. All the mosquitoes survived the collision.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe collision force must equal the resistance applied by the insect,\u201d Hu said. \u201cMosquitoes don\u2019t resist at all, but simply go with the flow.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team also filmed free-flying mosquitoes that were subjected to rain drops. They found that upon impact the mosquito is adhered to the front of the drop for up to 20 body lengths. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo survive, the mosquito must eventually separate from the front of the drop,\u201d Hu said. \u201cThe mosquito accomplishes this by using its long legs and wings, whose drag forces act to rotate the mosquito off the point of contact. This is necessary, otherwise the mosquito will be thrown into the ground at the speed of a falling raindrop.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers used high-speed videography to determine the mosquito\u2019s strong exoskeleton and low mass render it impervious to falling raindrops.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Mosquitoes receive low impact forces from raindrops because the mass of mosquitoes causes raindrops to lose little momentum upon impact."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2012-06-04 14:50:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:22","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"133851":{"id":"133851","type":"image","title":"Mosquitoes Fly in Rain - 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Nearly half of all cancer patients receive radiation therapy during the course of their treatment.\u0026nbsp; A linear accelerator uses microwaves to accelerate a stream of electrons to relativistic velocities to create high-energy radiation to treat cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech graduate students studying to become medical physicists will have unprecedented access to the machine so they can master calibration, beam data commissioning, linear accelerator service troubleshooting and other techniques before they graduate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn other programs, students typically have to wait until after therapy hours at a hospital or clinic to have access to radiotherapy equipment for labs. Even then, they aren\u2019t able to adjust settings and master the machine since the machines are monitored and maintained for patient treatment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHere we have the freedom not available in the clinical environment to change the settings and push the machine to the limits,\u201d said Eric Elder, assistant professor and associate director of Medical Physics at Emory University Department of Radiation Oncology, and adjunct assistant professor of Medical Physics and the director of the new lab at Georgia Tech. \u201cThis allows students to get hands-on experience and get more individualized attention. This is extremely beneficial.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe lab also has sophisticated treatment planning software and an oncology information system so students can learn how to manage cancer treatments using real-world techniques.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessionals in the southeast will also have the opportunity to get additional training on the linear accelerator, which will advance treatment in the field, experts say.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRadiation oncology medical physics is a field that can change rapidly and professionals don\u2019t always have the opportunity to learn new techniques,\u201d Elder said. \u201cWith this lab, we can reach out to practicing medical physicists \u2013 regionally, nationally and internationally \u2013 and offer training on the latest and greatest technology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech faculty and Emory faculty who are adjunct at Georgia Tech will also use the machine for research on diagnosis and treatment of cancer, including improving image-guided radiation to provide real-time imaging of the tumor target and low dose calculations to reduce radiation exposure in non-targeted parts of the body.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe radiotherapy equipment was given to Georgia Tech by an anonymous donor.\u0026nbsp;The lab is located in the\u0026nbsp;Boggs Building, home of the Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.\u0026nbsp;The new lab includes a clinical linear accelerator and a control room, housed in the new Radiological Science and Engineering Laboratory in the basement of the Boggs Building; and a computational treatment planning laboratory with 10 FDA approved workstations on the 3rd\u0026nbsp;floor of the Boggs Building.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech recently opened a new laboratory with state-of-the-art radiation therapy equipment dedicated solely to research and education, making it one of the only universities in the nation with this unique capability.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The unique lab includes top-of-the-line technology for delivering image guided radiotherapy and radiosurgery."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2012-05-25 13:40:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:18","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-05-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-05-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"132811":{"id":"132811","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Radiation Science and Engineering Lab","body":null,"created":"1449178659","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:37:39","changed":"1475894759","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:59","alt":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Radiation Science and Engineering Lab","file":{"fid":"194722","name":"varianlab.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/varianlab_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/varianlab_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":73227,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/varianlab_0.jpg?itok=YkU7JKRH"}}},"media_ids":["132811"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/rsel.gatech.edu\/","title":"Radiation and Science Engineering Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"34491","name":"Farzad Rahnema"},{"id":"34531","name":"linear accelerator"},{"id":"34521","name":"Nuclear and radiological engineering and medical physics"},{"id":"2378","name":"Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["klipp@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"131491":{"#nid":"131491","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Novel Casting Process Could Transform How Complex Metal Parts Are Made","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA Georgia Tech research team has developed a novel technology that could change how industry designs and casts complex, costly metal parts. This new casting method makes possible faster prototype development times, as well as more efficient and cost-effective manufacturing procedures after a part moves to mass production.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/das.shtml\u0022\u003ESuman Das\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, has developed an all-digital approach that allows a part to be made directly from its computer-aided design (CAD). The project, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has received $4.65 million in funding.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have developed a proof-of-concept system which is already turning out complex metal parts, and which fundamentally transforms the way that very high-value castings are made,\u201d said Das, who directs the Direct Digital Manufacturing Laboratory in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.marc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EManufacturing Research Center\u003C\/a\u003E (MaRC). \u201cWe\u0027re confident that our approach can lower costs by at least 25 percent and reduce the number of unusable waste parts by more than 90 percent, while eliminating 100 percent of the tooling.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe approach being utilized by Das and his team focuses on a technique called investment casting, also known as lost-wax casting. In this process, which dates back thousands of years, molten metal is poured into an expendable ceramic mold to form a part.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe mold is made by creating a wax replica of the part to be cast, surrounding or \u0022investing\u0022 the replica with a ceramic slurry, and then drying the slurry and hardening it to form the mold. The wax is then melted out \u2013 or lost \u2013 to form a mold cavity into which metal can be poured and solidified to produce the casting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInvestment casting is used to create precision parts across diverse industries including aerospace,\u0026nbsp;energy, biomedical and electronics. Das\u2019s current efforts are focused on parts used in aircraft engines. He is working with turbine-engine airfoils \u2013 complex parts used in jet engines \u2013 in collaboration with the University of Michigan and PCC Airfoils.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday, Das explained, most precision metal castings are designed on computers, using computer-aided design software. But the next step \u2013 creating the ceramic mold with which the part is cast \u2013 currently involves a sequence of six major operations requiring expensive precision-machined dies and hundreds of tooling pieces.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The result is a costly process that typically produces many defective molds and waste parts before a useable prototype is achieved,\u0022 Das said. \u0022This trial-and-error development phase often requires many months to cast a part that is accurate enough to enter the next stage, which involves testing and evaluation.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy contrast, Das\u2019s approach involves a device that builds ceramic molds directly from a CAD design, completing the task much faster and producing far fewer unusable parts.\u0026nbsp; Called Large Area Maskless Photopolymerization (LAMP), this high-resolution digital process accretes the mold layer by layer by projecting bitmaps of ultraviolet light onto a mixture of photosensitive resin and ceramic particles, and then selectively curing the mixture to a solid.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe technique places one 100-micron layer on top of another until the structure is complete. After the mold is formed, the cured resin is removed through binder burnout and the remaining ceramic is sintered in a furnace. The result is a fully ceramic structure into which molten metal \u2013 such as nickel-based superalloys or titanium-based alloys \u2013 are poured, producing a highly accurate casting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe LAMP process lowers the time required to turn a CAD design into a test-worthy part from a year to about a week,\u201d Das said. \u201cWe eliminate the scrap and the tooling, and each digitally manufactured mold is identical to the others.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA prototype LAMP alpha machine is currently building six typical turbine-engine airfoil molds in six hours. Das predicts that a larger beta machine \u2013 currently being built at Georgia Tech and scheduled for installation at a PCC Airfoils facility in Ohio in 2012 \u2013 will produce 100 molds at a time in about 24 hours.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough the current work focuses on turbine-engine airfoils, Das believes the LAMP technique will be effective in the production of many types of intricate metal parts. He envisions a scenario in which companies could send out part designs to digital foundries and receive test castings within a short time, much as integrated-circuit designers send CAD plans to chip foundries today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMoreover, he said, direct digital manufacturing enabled by LAMP should allow designers to create increasingly sophisticated pieces capable of achieving greater efficiency in jet engines and other systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis process can produce parts of a complexity that designers could only dream of before,\u201d he said. \u201cThe digital technique takes advantage of high-resolution optics and precision motion systems to achieve extremely sharp, small features \u2013 on the order of 100 microns.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDas also noted that the new process not only creates testable prototypes but could also be used in the actual manufacturing process. That would allow more rapid production of complex metal parts, in both low and high volumes, at lower costs in a variety of industries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen you can produce desired volumes in a short period without tooling,\u201d he said, \u201cyou have gone beyond rapid prototyping to true rapid manufacturing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe project depicted in this article is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; the content of this article does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the government, and no official endorsement should be inferred.\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 314\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30308\u0026nbsp; USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Abby Robinson (404-385-3364)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:abby@innovate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eabby@innovate.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rick Robinson\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Process allows production directly from digital files"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers have developed a novel technology that could change how industry designs and casts complex, costly metal parts. 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Bras. \u201cAs we start to put the building blocks in place that support our 25-year strategic plan, we will benefit from his experience, his perspective and his enthusiasm.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn the research side, Vito\u2019s involvement will focus on commercialization, the multifaceted process for bringing ideas from concept to reality and, ultimately, to market.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThrough programs such as the Georgia Tech Fund for Innovation in Research and Education and our startup accelerator Flashpoint, we are making significant investments to help foster the creative spirit of our faculty, students and the local community,\u201d said Executive Vice President for Research Steve Cross. \u0022Ray\u0027s leadership and passion for these initiatives have been instrumental in their success.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn expert in bioengineering and computer-aided engineering design who was named an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow in 2006, Vito has remained connected to the School of Mechanical Engineering, both as an instructor and as a faculty advisor to Tech\u2019s student chapter of the engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Ray Vito was in the vanguard of bioengineering research in the 1980s along with Don Giddens and Bob Nerem and really helped to put us on the map,\u201d said William Wepfer, chair of the School of Mechanical Engineering. \u201cIn the last few years Ray has been a strong advocate for students and for the emphasis on creativity and innovation in the undergraduate curriculum. 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Georgia Tech was one of nine universities to receive initial funding for the program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough the percentages of women in engineering have increased in the last several decades, men continue to dominate the profession. According to data compiled by the Society of Women Engineers in 2003, approximately 80 percent of new engineers were men, compared with only 20 percent who were women.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the chair of the School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering for the past 25 years, Rousseau has demonstrated sustained support, mentoring, and retention of women faculty. The ADVANCE Leadership Award recognizes his commitment to creating a climate of collegiality, inclusiveness, and excellence. Under his leadership, the school has hired eleven female tenure-track professors. Ten of the eleven are still faculty members in the school, out of a total of 38 faculty members with majority appointments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOut of the eleven female faculty members hired by Rousseau, Dr. Mary Rezac is the only one no longer at the Institute. After leaving Georgia Tech in 2001 to serve as department chair at Kansas State University, she engaged Rousseau to serve as her mentor under the ADVANCE Program at Kansas State and credits much of her own success as a leader to the mentoring he provided. \u201cHis candor, support, and guidance were invaluable for me as I transitioned from faculty member to administrator,\u201d Rezac says. \u201cHis actions have had a direct and positive impact on many people, including, in a very profound way, on me.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m now in my eighteenth year as an academic faculty member and have had the opportunity to interact with faculty and administrators from some of the finest institutions in the country,\u201d Rezac says. \u201cWith this sense of perspective, I can say without hesitation that through his innovation, dedication, and compassion, Dr. Rousseau has created an environment within Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering that nurtures a diverse population of faculty and students.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough Wepfer has served as the chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering for only five years, he played a significant role early in his tenure at Georgia Tech through his efforts to initiate the FOCUS program on campus. Launched in 1992, the program seeks to increase the number of master\u2019s and doctoral degrees awarded to underrepresented minorities at Georgia Tech. The FOCUS program has been so successful that it now serves as model for similar programs implemented at other premier institutions nationwide.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ADVANCE Leadership Award recognizes Wepfer\u2019s consistent dedication to diversity on campus, which has continued through his leadership as school chair. Since taking the helm of the Woodruff School, he initiated a successful program for actively recruiting female faculty members that brings rising-star women to campus to give seminars. Of the nine women faculty members in the school, seven effectively began under Wepfer\u2019s leadership. Additionally, Wepfer implemented a policy to support the success of all assistant mechanical engineering professors that reduces their teaching loads and brings transparency to the process.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the newest faculty member in the Woodruff School, Dr. Susan Thomas has benefited directly from Wepfer\u2019s commitment to enhancing diversity. \u201cIn my short time here, he has already organized multiple social events for untenured and female faculty, allowing us to come together to network as a group, as well as touch base with him,\u201d she says. \u201cEveryone talks about Dr. Wepfer making the school a great place to work\u2014and I couldn\u2019t agree more. Despite his enormous responsibilities to a large faculty with more than 90 members, he consistently takes time to make personal contact with me to ensure that I have what I need to succeed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThomas came to Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in fall 2011 after completing a postdoctoral appointment at \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9ral de Lausanne in Switzerland. She cites Wepfer\u2019s enthusiasm and dedication to enhancing diversity within the Woodruff school as instrumental to its current and continued success. \u201cHis enthusiasm, forthrightness, and support are invaluable to me as I transition into my faculty position,\u201d Thomas says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2007, Georgia Tech incorporated the ADVANCE Program as a formal Institute initiative and continues the mission of transforming and equalizing the representation of women in science and engineering. 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With the support of this program, students will receive financial support to pursue a degree in the nuclear field and gain the skills and experiences they need to succeed in a nuclear science and engineering career.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This funding will help Georgia Tech and the country to enhance the quality of nuclear education and research in order to support the development of the next generation of nuclear workforce, technology and research,\u0022 said Farzad Rahnema, chair of the Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUndergraduate students will receive a $5,000 scholarship, while fellowship winners will receive $50,000 annually over the next three years in addition to a summer internship at a National Laboratory. 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Spectators witnessed a variety of projects, including silverware wrapping machines, automated beverage mixers, and socially responsible projects such as rice transporters and hydroponic systems for developing nations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering and industrial design students showcased their work at the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons on April 26 at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u2019s Capstone Design Expo. The end-of-semester event has students present the culmination of their work immediately prior to graduation each semester, awarding thousands of dollars for the most innovative student work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETeams are either sponsored by industry experts or use a combination of imagination, experience and foundational knowledge to research problems and report solutions, designing prototypes and showcasing them to spectators and judges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMDAP,\u201d the first place team \u2013 comprised of John Bryan, Matthew Chambers, Patrick Chung, Caitlin Henegar, Amanda Swanson and Spencer Vore \u2013 received $1,500 for its design of a microfluidic cell sorter that aids in the detection of malaria. No current products exist that can be used for population screening at the desired sensitivity of buyers such as non-governmental organizations, while being both portable and non-electric.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe invented a device for the diagnosis of malaria under field conditions in third world countries and fabricated two prototypes,\u201d said Chambers. \u201cOur project is different because it is a purely mechanical solution to a medical problem.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second place prize of $1,000 comically went to \u201cTeam #1,\u201d for its prototype of a rooftop solar panel mounting system. The method decreases the standard 170-part, 11-hour installation process to a 44-part, 5-hour installation process. The proposed solution allows a higher number of installations per day at a lower cost. The team included students Steven Beardsell, Kim Giroux, Lukas Haferkamp, Parul Kapur, Matt Ray and John Tarman.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThird place, and $500, was awarded to \u201cLook Ma, No Hands!\u201d developed by Joe Fulton, Ryan Kennedy, Maureen McMeekin, Matt Peterka and Rick Scheff. The team created an automated baby stroller, for active parents, that maintains a safe distance between the parent and stroller when jogging. If the jogger comes to a sudden stop, the battery charged device recognizes the inactivity and stops as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe People\u2019s Choice award, earned by the team with the highest number of spectator votes at the event, went to Jon Agee, Eric Chang, Jason Lee, Arjun Menon and Disi A, Tapan Shah and for an automatic electric vehicle charging system called EZ Charge. 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By identifying molecules using compressed sensing, this new method provides needed spatial resolution plus a faster temporal resolution than previously possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDespite many achievements in the field of super-resolution microscopy in the past few years with spatial resolution advances, live-cell imaging has remained a challenge because of the need for high temporal resolution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/lei-zhu.shtml\u0022\u003ELei Zhu\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, and Bo Huang, assistant professor in UCSF\u2019s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, have developed an advanced approach using super-resolution microscopy to resolve cellular features an order of magnitude smaller than what could be seen before. This allows the researchers to tap previously inaccessible information and answer new biological questions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was published April 22, 2012 in the journal \u003Cem\u003ENature Methods\u003C\/em\u003E. The research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, UCSF Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research, Searle Scholarship and Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe previous technology using the single-molecule-switching approach for super-resolution microscopy depends on spreading single molecule images sparsely into many, often thousands of, camera frames. It is extremely limited in its temporal resolution and does not provide the ability to follow dynamic processes in live cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe can now use our discovery using super-resolution microscopy with seconds or even sub-second temporal resolution for a large field of view to follow many more dynamic cellular processes,\u201d said Zhu. \u201cMuch of our knowledge of the life of a cell comes from our ability to see the small structures within it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHuang noted, \u201cOne application, for example, is to investigate how mitochondria, the power house of the cell, interact with other organelles and the cytoskeleton to reshape the structure during the life cycle of the cell.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, light microscopy, especially in the modern form of fluorescence microscopy, is still used frequently by many biologists. However, the authors say, conventional light microscopy has one major limitation: the inability to resolve two objects closer than half the wavelength of the light because of the phenomenon called diffraction. With diffraction, the images look blurry and overlapped no matter how high the magnification that is used.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe diffraction limit has long been regarded as one of the fundamental constraints for light microscopy until the recent inventions of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy techniques,\u201d said Zhu. Super-resolution microscopy methods, such as stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) or photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM), rely on the ability to record light emission from a single molecule in the sample.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing probe molecules that can be switched between a visible and an invisible state, STORM\/PALM determines the position of each molecule of interest. These positions ultimately define a structure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new finding is significant, said Zhu and Huang, because they have shown that the technology allows for following the dynamics of a microtubule cytoskeleton with a three-second time resolution, which would allow researchers to study the active transports of vesicles and other cargos inside the cell.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing the same optical system and detector as in conventional light microscopy, super-resolution microscopy naturally requires longer acquisition time to obtain more spatial information, leading to a trade-off between its spatial and temporal resolution. In super-resolution microscopy methods based on STORM\/PALM, each camera image samples a very sparse subset of probe molecules in the sample.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn alternative approach is to increase the density of activated fluorophores so that each camera frame samples more molecules. However, this high density of fluorescent spots causes them to overlap, invalidating the widely used single-molecule localization method.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe authors said that a number of methods have been reported recently that can efficiently retrieve single-molecule positions even when the single fluorophore signals overlap. These methods are based on fitting clusters of overlapped spots with a variable number of point-spread functions (PSFs) with either maximum likelihood estimation or Bayesian statistics. The Bayesian method has also been applied to the whole image set.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a result of new research, Zhu and Huang present a new approach based on global optimization using compressed sensing, which does not involve estimating or assuming the number of molecules in the image. They show that compressed sensing can work with much higher molecule densities compared to other technologies and demonstrate live cell imaging of fluorescent protein-labeled microtubules with three-second temporal resolution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe STORM experiment used by the authors, with immunostained microtubules in \u003Cem\u003EDrosophila melanogaster\u003C\/em\u003E S2 cells, demonstrated that nearby microtubules can be resolved by compressed sensing using as few as 100 camera frames, whereas they were not discernible by the single-molecule fitting method. They have also performed live STORM on S2 cells stably expressing tubulin fused to mEos2.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the commonly used camera frame rate of 56.4 Hertz, a super-resolution movie was constructed with a time resolution of three seconds (169 frames) and a Nyquist resolution of 60 nanometers, much faster than previously reported, said Zhu and Huang. These results have proven that compressed sensing can enable STORM to monitor live cellular processes with second-scale time resolution, or even sub-second-scale resolution if a faster camera can be used.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 314\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia 30308 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)(404-894-6986) or Abby Robinson (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:abby@innovate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eabby@innovate.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)( 404-385-3364).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Sarah E. 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Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u201cThis technique would help manufacturers know that their products will meet reliability requirements, and provide designers with the information they need to choose the right materials to meet future design specifications over the lifetimes of devices.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, and was reported in the March 30, 2012 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EThin Solid Films\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EModern microelectronic chips are fabricated from layers of different materials \u2013 insulators and conductors \u2013 applied on top of one another. Thermal stress can be created when heat generated during the operation of the devices causes the materials of adjacent layers to expand, which occurs at different rates in different materials. The stress can cause the layers to separate, a process known as delamination or de-bonding, which is a major cause of microelectronics failure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe need to find out if these layers will separate over time as they are used and subjected to thermal and other stresses,\u201d Sitaraman explained. \u201cThese systems are used in a wide range of applications from cell phones and computers to automobiles, aircraft and medical equipment. They must be reliable over the course of their expected lifetimes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESitaraman and doctoral student Gregory Ostrowicki have used their technique to measure the adhesion strength between layers of copper conductor and silicon dioxide insulator. They also plan to use it to study fatigue cycling failure, which occurs over time as the interface between layers is repeatedly placed under stress. The technique may also be used to study adhesion between layers in photovoltaic systems and in MEMS devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech researchers first used standard microelectronic fabrication techniques to grow layers of thin films that they want to evaluate on a silicon wafer. At the center of each sample, they bonded a tiny permanent magnet made of nickel-plated neodymium (NdFeB), connected to three ribbons of thin-film copper grown atop silicon dioxide on a silicon wafer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe sample was then placed into a test station that consists of an electromagnet below the sample and an optical profiler above it. Voltage supplied to the electromagnet was increased over time, creating a repulsive force between the like magnetic poles. Pulled upward by the repulsive force on the permanent magnet, the copper ribbons stretched until they finally delaminated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith data from the optical profiler and knowledge of the magnetic field strength, the researchers can provide an accurate measure of the force required to delaminate the sample. The magnetic actuation has the advantage of providing easily controlled force consistently perpendicular to the silicon wafer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause many samples can be made at the same time on the same wafer, the technique can be used to generate a large volume of adhesion data in a timely fashion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut device failure often occurs gradually over time as the layers are subjected to the stresses of repeated heating and cooling cycles. To study this fatigue failure, Sitaraman and Ostrowicki plan to cycle the electromagnet\u2019s voltage on and off.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA lot of times, layers do not delaminate in one shot,\u201d Sitaraman said. \u201cWe can test the interface over hundreds or thousands of cycles to see how long it will take to delaminate and for that delamination damage to grow.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe test station is small enough to fit into an environmental chamber, allowing the researchers to evaluate the effects of high temperature and\/or high humidity on the strength of the thin film adhesion. This is particularly useful for electronics intended for harsh conditions, such as automobile engine control systems or aircraft avionics, Sitaraman said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe can see how the adhesion strength changes or the interfacial fracture toughness varies with temperature and humidity for a wide range of materials,\u201d he explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo far, Sitaraman and Ostrowicki have studied thin film layers about one micron in thickness, but say their technique will work on layers that are of sub-micron thickness. Because their test layers are made using standard microelectronic fabrication techniques in Georgia Tech\u2019s clean rooms, Sitaraman believes they accurately represent the conditions of real devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo get meaningful results, you need to have representative processes and representative materials and representative interfaces so that what is measured is what a real application would face,\u201d he said. \u201cWe mimic the processing conditions and techniques that are used in actual microelectronics fabrication.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs device sizes continue to decline, Sitaraman says the interfacial issues will grow more important.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs we continue to scale down the transistor sizes in microelectronics, the layers will get thinner and thinner,\u201d he said. \u201cGetting to the nitty-gritty detail of adhesion strength for these layers is where the challenge is. This technique opens up new avenues.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 314\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia 30308 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Abby Robinson (404-894-6986)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:abby@innovate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eabby@innovate.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Technique also has applications for PV cells, MEMS applications"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETaking advantage of the force generated by magnetic repulsion, researchers have developed a new technique for measuring the adhesion strength between thin films of materials used in microelectronic devices, photovoltaic cells and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new test technique evaluates how well thin films used in devices are bonded together."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2012-04-11 20:18:39","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:00","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-04-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-04-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"123541":{"id":"123541","type":"image","title":"MAPT Sample","body":null,"created":"1449178582","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:36:22","changed":"1475894746","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:46","alt":"MAPT Sample","file":{"fid":"194439","name":"maptsample.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/maptsample_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/maptsample_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1996915,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/maptsample_0.png?itok=ggWqiPqj"}},"123551":{"id":"123551","type":"image","title":"PeelTest13","body":null,"created":"1449178582","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:36:22","changed":"1475894746","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:46","alt":"PeelTest13","file":{"fid":"194440","name":"peel-test13.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/peel-test13_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/peel-test13_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1276954,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/peel-test13_0.jpg?itok=IOBj30z5"}},"123561":{"id":"123561","type":"image","title":"PeelTest73","body":null,"created":"1449178582","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:36:22","changed":"1475894746","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:46","alt":"PeelTest73","file":{"fid":"194441","name":"peel-test73.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/peel-test73_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/peel-test73_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1128225,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/peel-test73_0.jpg?itok=h2YZ9LZE"}},"123571":{"id":"123571","type":"image","title":"PeelTest99","body":null,"created":"1449178582","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:36:22","changed":"1475894746","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:46","alt":"PeelTest99","file":{"fid":"194442","name":"peel-test99.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/peel-test99_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/peel-test99_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":943054,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/peel-test99_0.jpg?itok=dwtLG2CZ"}}},"media_ids":["123541","123551","123561","123571"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"30011","name":"debonding"},{"id":"30001","name":"delamination"},{"id":"2832","name":"microelectronics"},{"id":"1395","name":"reliability"},{"id":"167377","name":"School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"169475","name":"Suresh Sitaraman"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; 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Also present were Dominique Gros, Mayor of Metz, Yves Berthelot, President of Georgia Tech-Lorraine, Abdallah Ougazzaden, Director of Georgia Tech-Lorraine, and Director of the Georgia Tech-CNRS Unit\u00e9 Mixte Internationale 2958 Laboratory, and Bernard Kippelen, Professor of Electrical and\u0026nbsp; Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech who represented Georgia Tech-Global.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt this meeting, Dr. Kippelen was officially confirmed as the President of the newly established Lafayette Institute. Drs. Berthelot and Ougazzaden will serve as the Institute\u2019s Vice Presidents.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Lafayette Institute will be housed in a newly constructed 20,000-square-foot building on the Georgia Tech-Lorraine campus, which will include a 5,000-square-foot clean room, fully equipped with state-of-the-art semiconductor growth capabilities. Georgia Tech is to provide support from its Enterprise Innovation Institute, the university\u2019s business and economic development arm, which aims to help enterprises use science, technology and innovation to improve their competitiveness. It also will share its expertise from the Nanotechnology Research Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Lafayette Institute will focus on the development of compound and organic semiconductors for technologies at the intersection of materials, optics, photonics, electronics and nanotechnology.\u0026nbsp; These new technologies will have applications in the energy sector, new display technologies, and sensors and medical technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am honored by the trust that the stakeholders have placed in me and I am looking forward to working with the team of the Lafayette Institute. This project is a milestone in the long and fruitful partnership between the Region Lorraine, Georgia Tech, and the State of Georgia and a new chapter in US-French collaboration in higher education and innovation,\u201d said Dr. Kippelen.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EG. P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson, president of Georgia Tech, said that the institute fit perfectly with the university\u2019s recently published strategic plan calling for \u201cglobal engagement.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Vice Provost for International Initiatives Steven McLaughlin said that the Lafayette Institute represents a very big step forward not only for \u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Lorraine, but for Georgia Tech as whole. \u0022Lafayette opens up \u003Cbr \/\u003Etremendous opportunities for researchers, scientists, small and large \u003Cbr \/\u003Ecompanies in Europe, and for Georgia Tech faculty and researchers to engage \u003Cbr \/\u003Eand collaborate in new ways in Metz,\u0022 said Dr. McLaughlin, who serves as president of Georgia Tech Global, Inc. \u0022We are very grateful to all of our \u003Cbr \/\u003Epartners for launching the Lafayette Institute and look forward to great \u003Cbr \/\u003Esuccesses.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Lafayette Institute was named after the Marquis de Lafayette, who decided to join the American Revolution after a historic meeting held in Metz, the capital of the Lorraine region.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn April 2, 2012, key officials from the Lorraine region of France met at Georgia Tech-Lorraine to sign a Statute of Incorporation, which legally established the Lafayette Institute, a \u20ac28 million (approximately $37 million) facility that will facilitate the commercialization of innovations in optoelectronics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2012-04-09 16:27:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:00","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"123041":{"id":"123041","type":"image","title":"Building Rendering for the Lafayette Institute","body":null,"created":"1449178582","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:36:22","changed":"1475894743","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:43","alt":"Building Rendering for the Lafayette Institute","file":{"fid":"194421","name":"building_rendering_for_lafayette_institute.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/building_rendering_for_lafayette_institute_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/building_rendering_for_lafayette_institute_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1080189,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/building_rendering_for_lafayette_institute_0.jpg?itok=ioE0XypM"}}},"media_ids":["123041"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.georgiatech-metz.fr\/","title":"Georgia Tech Lorraine"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=127","title":"Bernard Kippelen"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=138","title":"Abdallah Ougazzaden"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/berthelot.shtml","title":"Yves Berthelot"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"29771","name":"Abdallah Ougazzaden"},{"id":"2431","name":"Bernard Kippelen"},{"id":"29751","name":"Georgia Tech; Georgia Tech-Lorraine; international; France; Lafayette Institute; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Enterprise Innovation Institute"},{"id":"2784","name":"Nanotechnology Research Center"},{"id":"169485","name":"Steven McLaughlin"},{"id":"29761","name":"Yves Berthelot"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESandra Song\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech-Lorraine\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-385-1865\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:sandra.song@gtl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Esandra.song@gtl.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["sandra.song@gtl.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"121121":{"#nid":"121121","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Research \u2018Puts Learning into Practice\u2019 for Student","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn class, Lin Fan has listened to his professors explain the theory behind mechanical engineering. But his experiences in Todd Sulchek\u2019s lab \u2014 both the challenges and successes \u2014 have ensured that he actually learned and understood it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI wanted to put what I was learning in lecture into practice, and getting involved in research was a way to make this happen,\u201d said Fan, who will receive his bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering next month.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFan is one of 165 students who will present at this year\u2019s Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium on April 10 from 1 to 6 p.m. The event is an opportunity for undergraduate students to share their research with students, faculty and staff from across campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Chris Reaves, director of undergraduate research, about 42 percent of graduating seniors indicate that they had an undergraduate research experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFan began working with Sulchek, an assistant professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, two years ago. Sulchek\u2019s interest in working with undergraduates stemmed from his own positive experience as a student.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs an undergraduate, I was able to get involved with research and had a great experience,\u201d Sulchek said. \u201cSo it\u2019s important to me to provide students with the same opportunity. I just wish more undergraduates would take advantage of these opportunities while they\u2019re at Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen Fan began working in Sulchek\u2019s lab, there were some initial challenges. For example, the first project he worked on wasn\u2019t the best fit for him. It was more chemical engineering-based than mechanical, and it was difficult to collaborate with fellow students in the lab because none of them were working on a project similar to Fan\u2019s.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBut I appreciated that Dr. Sulchek let me pursue the project and figure this out for myself,\u201d Fan said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore Fan could get frustrated, Sulchek offered him the opportunity to work on another project that was a better fit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne aspect of Sulchek\u2019s research in nanotechnology is using an atomic force\u003Cbr \/\u003Emicroscope (AFM). The AFM \u201csees\u201d tiny objects (such as molecules) with the help of a small probe that touches the object\u2019s surfaces and creates an image based on what it feels.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnfortunately, the probe or the surface often gets damaged during the process. To remedy the problem, Fan created a method to hover the AFM\u2019s probe at a fixed distance above the surface, which decreases the risk of damage to the probe and the surface.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast month, Fan\u2019s research was published for the first time in an academic journal, the Review of Scientific Instruments \u2014 which doesn\u2019t happen to most undergraduates, Sulchek added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s so amazing to see more than a year\u2019s work finally pay off, \u201d said Fan, who will spend the summer working in Sulchek\u2019s lab before he moves on to graduate school.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe two do have a few words of advice for faculty members who work with undergraduate researchers. For example, Sulchek recommends that the faculty member ensure that the student\u2019s project be well defined so that progress can be made in the time the student is working in the lab. He also suggests that a graduate student mentor be assigned to each undergraduate researcher.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFan suggests that faculty members make time to meet with the students one-on-one, as that was an important part of his success in Sulchek\u2019s lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more about the spring symposium and other undergraduate research opportunities at Tech, click \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.undergradresearch.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn class, Lin Fan has listened to his professors explain the theory behind mechanical engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In class, Lin Fan has listened to his professors explain the theory behind mechanical engineering."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2012-04-02 09:04:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:56","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"120951":{"id":"120951","type":"image","title":"Todd Sulchek and Lin Fan","body":null,"created":"1449178279","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:31:19","changed":"1475894741","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:41","alt":"Todd Sulchek and Lin Fan","file":{"fid":"194379","name":"dscn0197.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dscn0197_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dscn0197_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2553101,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dscn0197_0.jpg?itok=Foh27wf2"}}},"media_ids":["120951"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.undergradresearch.gatech.edu\/","title":"Undergraduate Research at Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"541","name":"Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"},{"id":"13574","name":"Todd Sulchek"},{"id":"28941","name":"undergraduate research spring symposium"},{"id":"12918","name":"undergraduate students"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amelia.pavlik@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAmelia Pavlik\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"118441":{"#nid":"118441","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Curricula Updates Will Allow Students Increased Flexibility","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProviding students with more flexibility regarding which courses they take and when is at the heart of recent faculty-approved changes to Mechanical and Electrical and Computer Engineering curricula.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo be competitive, today\u2019s engineers require a broad interdisciplinary skill set, which means that our programs have to provide the opportunities for our students to gain these skills,\u201d said Gary May, dean of the College of Engineering. \u201cThese changes won\u2019t affect the rigor of the programs, rather they will ensure that the theory we teach is better connected to practice.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe updates reflect a national trend among collegiate engineering programs to provide curricula that are challenging but also allow students more flexibility when it comes to taking electives or finding time to fit a co-op or study abroad experience into their schedules. However, as far as May knows, Georgia Tech is one of the first universities to follow through with revamping multiple engineering program curricula.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s been a while since these degree programs were updated to reflect current standards, and I\u2019m impressed that the faculty in both schools recognized the need for change and were proactive,\u201d May added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMechanical Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn February, faculty members in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering voted to revise the current curriculum, which will allow students to choose a \u201cbreadth\u201d or \u201cconcentration\u201d option. Both options will increase the total curriculum credits from 126 to 129.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe new curriculum retains the strengths of the present program, meaning that it still gives students a broad grounding in the fundamentals as well as experience in professional practice and design. But the new curriculum will give students the ability to expand their knowledge beyond mechanical engineering, so that they can pursue their interests in truly multidisciplinary topics,\u201d said Al Ferri, the school\u2019s associate chair of undergraduate studies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor years, students, employers and academic leaders have stressed the need for greater flexibility in the choice of both technical and free electives, Ferri said. To ensure that their interests were represented in the revised curriculum, students from the Woodruff School Student Advisory Council assisted the school\u2019s Undergraduate Committee as it hammered out the details.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe breadth option will provide students with five free electives (15 credit hours) versus the two free electives (six credit hours) allowed under the previous curriculum. These electives could be used by students to complete a certificate or minor in an array of subjects from math and applied sciences to sociology and public policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe concentration option will provide a major depth experience in some sub-discipline of mechanical engineering \u2014 much like doing a minor within a major, Ferri added. For example, students could choose to specialize in areas such as thermal and energy systems, biomechanics, materials, or nuclear and radiological engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe revised curriculum was approved by the Institute\u2019s Undergraduate Curriculum Committee on March 13 and will now be submitted to the Georgia Tech Academic Senate for final approval in April.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EElectrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStarting this summer, the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) will roll out its changes to both the Electrical Engineering (EE) and Computer Engineering (CmpE) curricula.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere were two driving forces behind our curriculum changes,\u201d said Joseph Hughes, senior associate chair of the school. \u201cThe first was that the two degree programs were too similar, and we either needed to blend them into one degree or make each unique. Also, we wanted to increase flexibility so that students could pursue minors or an international plan and still be able to graduate in a timely manner.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe number of credits required for each degree program will remain the same. However, the number of ECE credit hours that were common to the two degree programs will be reduced from 29 to 20 to better differentiate the two curricula.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn electrical energy course and a course in signals and systems will be added to the EE curriculum. Also, a required programming course and lab will be replaced by ECE electives, which will allow students more flexibility and options when it comes to choosing a specialization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECmpE majors will now take foundational courses that focus on mathematical, physical and design principles for computational systems. In addition, the number of ECE elective hours will increase from 10 to 22 hours and the number of free elective hours will increase from nine to 12.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the future, it\u2019s likely that many of the College of Engineering curricula will undergo similar changes to allow more flexibility, May said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo meet our strategic objective of being one of the most highly respected technology-focused learning institutions in the world, we have to ensure that our programs are designed to graduate competitive engineers,\u201d May added. \u201cUpdating these two curricula are a step in that direction.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProviding students with more flexibility regarding which courses they take and when is at the heart of recent faculty-approved changes to Mechanical and Electrical and Computer Engineering curricula.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Providing students with more flexibility regarding which courses they take and when is at the heart of recent faculty-approved changes to Mechanical and Electrical and Computer Engineering curricula."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2012-03-21 13:59:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:52","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"5527","name":"computer engineering"},{"id":"27761","name":"curricula"},{"id":"2526","name":"curriculum"},{"id":"27741","name":"degree programs"},{"id":"9386","name":"electives"},{"id":"1925","name":"Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"1259","name":"electrical engineering"},{"id":"27751","name":"flexibility"},{"id":"541","name":"Mechanical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022#mce_temp_url#\u0022\u003EAmelia Pavlik\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"112651":{"#nid":"112651","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two Georgia Tech Faculty Help to Define Emerging U.S Stem Cell Engineering Field through International Study","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERobert M. Nerem, Ph.D., professor in mechanical engineering and Todd C.\nMcDevitt, Ph.D., director of the Stem Cell Engineering Center at Georgia Tech,\nwere invited by the lead sponsor, Semahat S.\nDemir Ph.D. of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to take part in an\ninternational assessment of the stem cell engineering field.\u0026nbsp; Nerem will\nlead the panel and the findings of this study will result in recommendations to\nthe NSF and other funding agencies on future research directions and\ninvestments, recommendations on global initiatives with international partners\nand public workshops.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe study, which is being conducted by the World Technology Evaluation Center\n(WTEC), aims to assess the current status and the trends of stem cell\nengineering, and compare U.S. research and development programs with those\nabroad.\u0026nbsp; In addition to the NSF, the study is co-sponsored by the National\nInstitutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Standards and\nTechnology (NIST).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u201cTech is fortunate to have two out of the six experts on this panel,\u201d Nerem\nsaid. \u201cIt conveys Georgia Tech\u0027s nascent leadership in this relatively new and\nrapidly growing field and it is a great opportunity to provide input and\nleadership to our funding agencies and help our government understand where\nbest to invest.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPresident Obama, Congress and numerous states have recognized the value of stem\ncell research. Knowledge of research activities abroad will help to formulate\nand prioritize research directions to support President Obama\u0027s executive order\nfor expanding stem cell research so that it has the greatest potential for\nclinical and commercial applications.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDozens of companies have recently entered the stem cell engineering field in\nsearch of clinical and commercial applications.\u0026nbsp; There is clear impetus\nfor the U.S. to support stem cell research and continue its leadership in the\nbasic sciences for the betterment of humankind.\u0026nbsp; A Congressional Research\nService report on stem cell research, which reviewed the political, moral and\nethical issues of the subject, indicated the strengthening interest and\neconomic commitment for stem cell research in the U.S. and the rest of the\nworld.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis study will use WTEC\u0027s methodology and an expert panel of six to conduct\nsite visits to overseas laboratories where work in stem cell engineering is\ndone. The panelists began their study in November, when they traveled to China\nand Japan, and will continue their evaluation this week in Europe.\u0026nbsp; These\nvisits, combined with the panel\u0027s own research experiences and assessments,\nwill help shape a report.\u0026nbsp; Like the previous WTEC studies on the tissue\nengineering and nanotechnology fields, this effort will act as a guide for U.S.\nresearch investments in this emerging field and will help identify key issues\nof critical importance to program officers. \u2028\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u201cThis is an excellent opportunity to learn what other countries are doing and\nbenchmark against other programs in order to position the U.S. to become\nleaders in stem cell research and development,\u201d said McDevitt, who is also an\nassociate professor in the Wallace H. Counter Department of Biomedical\nEngineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u201cManufacturing, clinical\ntrials and commercializing stem cell-based products, if done strategically, is\nsomething that could boost our nation\u2019s economy.\u201d \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis week the scientists will travel to Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. In addition to Nerem and McDevitt, other panelists include Jeanne\nLoring, Ph.D., The Scripps Institute; Sean Palecek, Ph.D., University of\nWisconsin; David Schaffer, Ph.D., University California at Berkeley; and Peter\nZandstra, Ph.D., University of Toronto.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWTEC is a non-profit 501(c)(3) research institute, which is a spin-off of\nLoyola University Maryland.\u0026nbsp; Since 1989, WTEC has provided such assessment\nstudies in more than 60 fields of R\u0026amp;D under peer-reviewed grants from NSF.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Georgia Tech faculty invited by the National Science Foundation to take part in an international assessment of the Stem Cell Engineering field."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERobert M. Nerem, Ph.D., professor in mechanical engineering and Todd C.\nMcDevitt, Ph.D., director of the Stem Cell Engineering Center at Georgia Tech,\nwere invited by the lead sponsor, Semahat S.\nDemir Ph.D. from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to take part in an\ninternational assessment of the stem cell engineering field.\u0026nbsp; Nerem will\nlead the panel and the findings of this study will result in recommendations to\nthe NSF and other funding agencies on future research directions and\ninvestments, recommendations on global initiatives with international partners\nand public workshops.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech faculty invited by the National Science Foundation to take part in an international assessment of the Stem Cell Engineering field."}],"uid":"27224","created_gmt":"2012-02-27 16:16:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:44","author":"Megan McDevitt","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"60434":{"id":"60434","type":"image","title":"Robert Nerem \u0026 Todd McDevitt","body":null,"created":"1449176267","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:47","changed":"1475894523","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:03","alt":"Robert Nerem \u0026 Todd McDevitt","file":{"fid":"191125","name":"tpb17928.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpb17928_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpb17928_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1599704,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tpb17928_0.jpg?itok=qHDHZJYj"}},"70893":{"id":"70893","type":"image","title":"Robert Nerem","body":null,"created":"1449177328","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:28","changed":"1475894625","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:45"},"70131":{"id":"70131","type":"image","title":"Todd McDevitt","body":null,"created":"1449177288","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:14:48","changed":"1475894616","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:36"}},"media_ids":["60434","70893","70131"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.wtec.org\/SCE\/","title":"Study website"},{"url":"http:\/\/scec.gatech.edu\/","title":"Stem Cell Engineering Center"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/","title":"National Science Foundation"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/index.html","title":"National Institute of Standards and Technology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"215","name":"manufacturing"},{"id":"362","name":"National Science Foundation"},{"id":"3414","name":"Robert Nerem"},{"id":"167490","name":"SCEC"},{"id":"167603","name":"Stem Cell Engineering"},{"id":"760","name":"Todd McDevitt"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:colly.mitchell@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EColly Mitchell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarketing \u0026amp; Events\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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Developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the technique allows fabrication of ferroelectric nanostructures with user-defined shapes, location and pattern variation across the same substrate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe resulting structures, which are 100 to 200 nanometers in outer diameter with thickness ranging from 5 to 25 nanometers, show a piezoelectric response comparable to that of PZT thin films of much larger dimensions. The technique could ultimately lead to production of actively-tunable photonic and phononic crystals, terahertz emitters, energy harvesters, micromotors, micropumps and nanoelectromechanical sensors, actuators and transducers \u2013 all made from the PZT material.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing a novel characterization technique developed at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ornl.gov\/\u0022\u003EOak Ridge National Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E, the researchers for the first time made high-accuracy in-situ measurements of the nanoscale piezoelectric properties of the structures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are using a new nano-manufacturing method for creating three-dimensional nanostructures with high aspect ratios in ferroelectric materials that have attractive piezoelectric properties,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/bassiri_gharb.shtml\u0022\u003ENazanin Bassiri-Gharb\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWoodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cWe also leveraged a new characterization method available through Oak Ridge to study the piezoelectric response of these nanostructures on the substrate where they were produced.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was published online on Jan. 26, 2012, and is scheduled for publication in the print edition (Vol. 24, Issue 9) of the journal \u003Cem\u003EAdvanced Materials\u003C\/em\u003E. The research was supported by Georgia Tech new faculty startup funds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFerroelectric materials at the nanometer scale are promising for a wide range of applications, but processing them into useful devices has proven challenging \u2013 despite success at producing such devices at the micrometer scale. Top-down manufacturing techniques, such as focused ion beam milling, allow accurate definition of devices at the nanometer scale, but the process can induce surface damage that degrades the ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties that make the material interesting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUntil now, bottom-up fabrication techniques have been unable to produce structures with both high aspect ratios and precise control over location. The technique reported by the Georgia Tech researchers allows production of nanotubes made from PZT (PbZr0.52Ti0.48O3) with aspect ratios of up to 5 to 1.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis technique gives us a degree of control over the three-dimensional process that we\u2019ve not had before,\u201d said Bassiri-Gharb. \u201cWhen we did the characterization, we saw a size effect that until now had been observed only in thin films of this material at much larger size scales.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ferroelectric nanotubes are especially interesting because their properties \u2013 including size, shape, optical responses and dielectric characteristics \u2013 can be controlled by external forces even after they are fabricated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese are truly smart materials, which means they respond to external stimuli such as applied electric fields, thermal fields or stress fields,\u201d said Bassiri-Gharb. \u201cYou can tune them to behave differently. Devices made from these materials could be fine tuned to respond to a different wavelength or to emit at a different wavelength during operation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor example, the piezoelectric effect could permit fabrication of \u201cnano-muscle\u201d tubes that would act as tiny pumps when an electric field is applied to them. The fields could also be used to tune the properties of photonic crystals, or to create structures whose size can be altered slightly to absorb electromagnetic energy of different wavelengths.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn fabricating the nanotubes, Bassiri-Gharb and graduate student Ashley Bernal (currently an assistant professor at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) began with a silicon substrate and spin-coated a negative electron-beam resist material onto it. A template was created using electron-beam lithography, and a thin layer of aluminum oxide was added on top of that using atomic layer deposition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENext, the template was immersed under vacuum into an ultrasound bath containing a chemical precursor solution for PZT. The structures were pyrolyzed at 300 degrees Celsius, then annealed in a two-step heat treating process at 600 and 800 degrees Celsius to crystallize the material and decompose the polymer substrate. The process produced free-standing PZT nanotubes connected by a thin layer of the original aluminum oxide. Increasing the amount of chemical infiltration allows production of solid nanorods or nanowires instead of hollow nanotubes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThough the researchers used electron beam lithography to create the template on which the structures were grown, in principle, many other chemical, optical or mechanical patterning techniques could be used for create the templates, Bassiri-Gharb noted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn studies done in collaboration with researchers Sergei Kalinin and Alexander Tselev of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cnms.ornl.gov\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Nanophase Materials Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the devices produced by the soft template process were analyzed with band-excitation piezoresponse force microscopy (BPFM). The technique allowed researchers to isolate properties of the AFM tip from those of the PZT sample, allowing analysis in sufficient detail to detect the size-scale piezoelectric effects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of our most important observations is that these piezoelectric nanomaterials allow us to generate a factor of four to six increase in the extrinsic piezoelectric response compared to the use of thin films,\u201d said Baassiri-Gharb. \u201cThis would be a huge advantage in terms of manufacturing because it means we could get the same response from much smaller structures than we would have had to otherwise use.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences is one of the five Department of Energy (DOE) Nanoscale Science Research Centers, premier national user facilities for interdisciplinary research at the nanoscale that are supported by the DOE Office of Science. Together, the NSRCs comprise a suite of complementary facilities that provide researchers with state-of-the-art capabilities to fabricate, process, characterize and model nanoscale materials, and constitute the largest infrastructure investment of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. The NSRCs are located at DOE\u2019s Argonne, Brookhaven, Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge, Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories. For more information about the DOE NSRCs, please visit http:\/\/science.energy.gov\/bes\/suf\/user-facilities\/nanoscale-science-research-centers\/.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 314\u003Cbr \/\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30308\u0026nbsp; USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Abby Robinson (404-385-3364)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:abby@innovate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eabby@innovate.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Technique Allows User-defined Shapes, Location and Pattern Variation"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers have developed a \u201csoft template infiltration\u201d technique for fabricating free-standing piezoelectrically active ferroelectric nanotubes and other nanostructures from PZT \u2013 a material that is attractive because of its large piezoelectric response. Developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the technique allows fabrication of ferroelectric nanostructures with user-defined shapes, location and pattern variation across the same substrate.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new technique enables fabrication of free-standing piezoelectrically-active ferroelectric nanostructures from PZT."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2012-02-21 12:07:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:44","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-02-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-02-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"111141":{"id":"111141","type":"image","title":"Ferroelectric-structures","body":null,"created":"1449178213","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:30:13","changed":"1475894728","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:28","alt":"Ferroelectric-structures","file":{"fid":"194090","name":"ferroelectric-structures.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ferroelectric-structures_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ferroelectric-structures_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":294766,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ferroelectric-structures_0.jpg?itok=RwiSaPAV"}},"111151":{"id":"111151","type":"image","title":"Ferroelectric-structures2","body":null,"created":"1449178213","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:30:13","changed":"1475894728","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:28","alt":"Ferroelectric-structures2","file":{"fid":"194091","name":"ferroelectric-structures2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ferroelectric-structures2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ferroelectric-structures2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":180780,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ferroelectric-structures2_0.jpg?itok=ao07Gtyn"}},"111161":{"id":"111161","type":"image","title":"Ferroelectric-structures3","body":null,"created":"1449178213","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:30:13","changed":"1475894728","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:28","alt":"Ferroelectric-structures3","file":{"fid":"194092","name":"ferroelectric-structures3.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ferroelectric-structures3_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ferroelectric-structures3_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":246260,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ferroelectric-structures3_0.jpg?itok=Rp2t_3Lr"}}},"media_ids":["111141","111151","111161"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13685","name":"ferroelectric"},{"id":"7577","name":"nanostructure"},{"id":"3173","name":"nanotube"},{"id":"13686","name":"Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb"},{"id":"7699","name":"piezoelectric"},{"id":"24651","name":"PZT"},{"id":"167377","name":"School of Mechanical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"108061":{"#nid":"108061","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Model Analyzes Shape-Memory Alloys for Use in Earthquake-Resistant Structures","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERecent earthquake damage has exposed the vulnerability of\nexisting structures to strong ground movement. At the Georgia Institute of\nTechnology, researchers are analyzing shape-memory alloys for their potential\nuse in constructing seismic-resistant structures.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cShape-memory alloys exhibit unique characteristics that you\nwould want for earthquake-resistant building and bridge design and retrofit\napplications: they have the ability to dissipate significant energy without\nsignificant degradation or permanent deformation,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ce.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/891\/overview\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EReginald DesRoches\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor\nin the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have developed a model that\ncombines thermodynamics and mechanical equations to assess what happens when\nshape-memory alloys are subjected to loading from strong motion. The researchers\nare using the model to analyze how shape-memory alloys in a variety of\ncomponents -- cables, bars, plates and helical springs -- respond to different loading\nconditions. From that information, they can determine the optimal\ncharacteristics of the material for earthquake applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe model was developed by DesRoches, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Mechanical\nEngineering\u003C\/a\u003E graduate student Reza Mirzaeifar, School of Civil and Environmental\nEngineering associate professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ce.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/421\/overview\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EArash Yavari\u003C\/a\u003E, and School of Mechanical Engineering\nand \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Materials Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/gall.shtml\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKen Gall\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EA paper describing the thermo-mechanical model was published\nonline Feb. 3 in the \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijnonlinmec.2012.01.007\u0022\u003EInternational\nJournal of Non-Linear Mechanics\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E. This research was supported by the\nTransportation Research Board IDEA program.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETo improve the performance of structures during earthquakes,\nresearchers around the world have been investigating the use of \u201csmart\u201d\nmaterials, such as shape-memory alloys, which can bounce back after\nexperiencing large loads. The most common shape-memory alloys are made of metal\nmixtures containing copper-zinc-aluminum-nickel, copper-aluminum-nickel or\nnickel-titanium. Potential applications of shape-memory alloys in bridge and\nbuilding structures include their use in bearings, columns and beams, or\nconnecting elements between beams and columns. But before this class of\nmaterials can be used, the effect of extreme and repetitive loads on these\nmaterials must be thoroughly examined.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor standard civil engineering materials, you can use\nmechanics to look at force and displacement to measure stress and strain, but\nfor this class of shape-memory alloys that changes properties when it undergoes\nloading and unloading, you have to consider thermodynamics and mechanics,\u201d explained\nYavari.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech team found that the generation and\nabsorption of heat during loading and unloading caused a temperature gradient\nin shape-memory alloys, which caused a non-uniform stress distribution in the\nmaterial even when the strain was uniform.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cShape-memory alloys previously examined in detail were\nreally thin wires, which can exchange heat with the ambient environment rapidly\nand no temperature change is seen,\u201d said Mirzaeifar. \u201cWhen you start to examine\nalloys in components large enough to be used in civil engineering applications,\nthe internal temperature is no longer uniform and needs to be taken into\naccount.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETo predict the internal temperature distribution of\nshape-memory alloys under loading-unloading cycles, which could then be used to\ndetermine the stress distribution, the researchers developed a model that used\nthe surface thermal boundary conditions, diameter and loading rate of the alloy\nas inputs.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team included ambient conditions in the model because\nshape-memory alloys for seismic applications could operate in a variety of\nenvironments -- such as water if used in bridge structures or air if used in\nbuilding structures -- which would produce different rates of heat transfer. The\nresearchers used a thermal camera to record the variation in surface\ntemperature of shape-memory alloys experiencing loading and unloading.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing their model, the researchers were able to accurately\npredict internal temperature and stress distributions for shape-memory alloys. The\nmodel results were verified with experimental tests. In one test, they found\nthat a shape-memory alloy loaded at a very slow rate had time to exchange the\nheat created with the ambient environment and exhibited uniform stress. If it was\nloaded very rapidly, it did not have enough time to exchange the heat, leading\nto a non-uniform stress distribution.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur analytical solutions are exact, fast and capable of simulating\nthe complicated coupled thermo-mechanical response of shape-memory alloys\nconsidering temperature changes and loading rate dependency,\u201d said Mirzaeifar.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn future work, the researchers plan to examine more\ncomplicated shapes and the effects of combination loading -- tension, bending\nand torsion -- to optimize shape-memory alloys for earthquake applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis project is\nsupported by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies (Award\nNo. NCHRP-147). The National Academies has rights to the data and the content\nis solely the responsibility of the principal investigators and does not\nnecessarily represent the official views of the National Academies.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 314\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations\nContacts:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Robinson (abby@innovate.gatech.edu; 404-385-3364) or John\nToon (jtoon@gatech.edu; 404-894-6986)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter: \u003C\/strong\u003EAbby\nRobinson\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERecent earthquake damage has exposed the vulnerability of\nexisting structures to strong ground movement. 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At the semester-ending event, held by the\nGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, student teams\nsystematically design, build and report solutions, in the form of prototypes or\ndesigns of prototypes, for a variety of problems submitted from industrial\nsponsors or their own imagination.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESecond\nplace was awarded to ThromBOSSES, developed by seniors Kevin Parsons, Priya\nPatil, Benji Hoover, Daniel Pak, Matthew Lee, Eric Kopfle, Josh DeVane and\nPoornima Vekataraman. This project was a redesign of a sternal retractor used during\nmedian sternotomy surgeries. Median sternotomy provides access to the heart and\nlungs for surgical procedures such as heart transplant, coronary artery bypass\nand corrective surgery for congenital heart defects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThird\nplace went to Re-Hand, an in-home rehabilitative device for strengthening hand\nmuscles, following injury or a debilitating medical condition. The Re-Hand would\nallow for testing and rehabilitation of individual fingers and accommodates for\ntesting at different wrist positions. It also increases patients\u2019 motivation through\nan interactive game. Students involved with the Re-Hand project include seniors\nDaphne Vincent, Elizabeth LeMar, Kunal McDonal and Alkindi Kibria.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA\ndevice that determines how a patient\u2019s blood is clotting \u2013 information that could\nhelp doctors prescribe more personalized doses of a popular anti-clotting drug\n\u2013 won first prize at the Fall 2011 Capstone Design Expo.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A device that determines how a patient\u2019s blood is clotting, which could help doctors prescribe personalized dosages, won first prize at the Fall 2011 Capstone Design Expo."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2011-12-23 14:33:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:53","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-12-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-12-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"75521":{"id":"75521","type":"image","title":"Heart-Thromb","body":null,"created":"1449178055","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:35","changed":"1475894688","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:48","alt":"Heart-Thromb","file":{"fid":"193808","name":"thromb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thromb_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thromb_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":253130,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/thromb_0.jpg?itok=4LNY60gk"}},"75531":{"id":"75531","type":"image","title":"ThrombBOSSES","body":null,"created":"1449178055","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:35","changed":"1475894688","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:48","alt":"ThrombBOSSES","file":{"fid":"193809","name":"thrombbosses.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thrombbosses_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thrombbosses_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":272196,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/thrombbosses_0.jpg?itok=6y-9TsQi"}},"75541":{"id":"75541","type":"image","title":"Re-Hand","body":null,"created":"1449178055","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:35","changed":"1475894688","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:48","alt":"Re-Hand","file":{"fid":"193810","name":"rehand.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rehand_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rehand_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":282105,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/rehand_0.jpg?itok=0cna9yzQ"}}},"media_ids":["75521","75531","75541"],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"16221","name":"Carmen Landord"},{"id":"16201","name":"College of Engineering; George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering; Capstone Design Expo; Fall 2010; Heart-Thromb"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"999","name":"IAC"},{"id":"851","name":"INTA"},{"id":"1012","name":"International Plan"},{"id":"171147","name":"Sam Steed"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["matt.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"74931":{"#nid":"74931","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Petit Institute \u0022Above and Beyond\u0022 Awardees Announced","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience announces its annual \u201cAbove and Beyond\u201d awardees. Loren Williams, Ph.D. and Todd Sulchek, Ph.D are the recipients of the faculty awards and Colly Mitchell has been named the staff recipient.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Petit Institute Above and Beyond Awards are selected by the Faculty Steering Committee and given to team-based individuals who demonstrate exemplary service to the institute and contribute to its collegial, collaborative environment. \u0026nbsp;Three awards are given each year to a senior faculty member, a pre-tenure faculty member and a staff member.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELoren Williams, professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry, has contributed to the Petit Institute significantly this year. Williams is the director of one of the Petit Institute interdisciplinary research centers, RiboEvo.\u0026nbsp; RiboEvo is a NASA-funded center which is focused on integrated interdisciplinary research and education in astrobiology. As part of the center\u2019s activities, Williams voluntarily participated in the Buzz on Biotechnology high school open house where his center hosted two booths, one with a 3-D visualization of DNA, RNA using PyMol and another demonstration showcasing the use of liquid nitrogen in cryogenics and molecular biology. In addition, Williams organized the 2011 Suddath Symposium and participated in several Petit Institute activities including the Industry Partners Symposium dinner and the Bio-Center Poster Session. Williams also sits on the core facilities steering committee. Williams will have an equally busy 2012 as he is chair of the Astrobiology Science Conference which will attract over 700 scientists to Atlanta and Georgia Tech next year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETodd Sulchek, assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering, was nominated for his participation and support of the Petit Scholars program over the last several years and for consistently being an active community citizen. Sulchek has participated in many Petit Institute-related events, seminars and community-wide poster sessions.\u0026nbsp; In addition, Sulchek received a NSF CAREER Award for his proposal titled: \u0022Understanding Multivalent Biological Bonds for Biosensing Applications.\u0022\u0026nbsp; Sulchek will continue to support Petit Institute activities in 2012 as he is scheduled to give a seminar for the Petit Institute\u2019s IBB Breakfast Club seminar series in February.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EColly Mitchell, special program coordinator for marketing and communications,\nhas been working for the Petit Institute since 2007. In 2008, she began to\nmanage the Petit Scholars program. \u0026nbsp;At the time Mitchell took over, the program was\ndeclining.\u0026nbsp; Over the course of the\nlast 3 years, she has played a key role in improving the number and quality of\nthe applications and in 2011 the program is thriving.\u0026nbsp; During her tenure at the Petit Institute, Mitchell has made a\ncomplex job look easy by supporting a variety of Petit Institute events for\ngroups ranging from students to high-profile donors and administrators. In\naddition, she is responsible for various communication activities, including\ndisplay of news and events on the atrium\u2019s flat screen TV and the institute\u2019s\nwebsite. Perhaps even more impressively, she manages all of this on a part-time\nbasis and does so with a calm demeanor, a constant smile and an easy\nprofessionalism that earns her the respect and admiration of her colleagues. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience announces its annual \u201cAbove and Beyond\u201d awardees"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience announces its annual \u201cAbove and Beyond\u201d awardees. Loren Williams, Ph.D. and Todd Sulchek, Ph.D are the recipients of the faculty awards and Colly Mitchell has been named the staff recipient.\u0026nbsp;","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience announces its annual \u201cAbove and Beyond\u201d awardees"}],"uid":"27224","created_gmt":"2011-12-19 16:05:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:53","author":"Megan McDevitt","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-12-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-12-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"69773":{"id":"69773","type":"image","title":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience","body":null,"created":"1449177264","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:14:24","changed":"1475894611","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:31","alt":"Parker H. 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