Here are links to sites and information that pertain either directly to the field of technology of one or more ERCs or that pertain more generally to the Engineering Research Centers and the concepts that drive them. 

Please submit additional relevant links to the webmaster for possible addition to the listings below.

Cross-Disciplinary/Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary Research at Universities

• The New Engineering Research Centers: Purposes, Goals & Expectations (NRC report)
• Engineering Research Centers: A Partnership for Competitiveness
• Emerging Issues for Cross-Disciplinary Research: Conceptual and Empirical Dimensions

Engineering Education

• Engineering Education: Designing an Adaptive System (NRC report)
• Engineering Undergraduate Education (NRC report)
• Results from the Engineering & Computing Education Grantees' Meeting (NSF)
• Engineering Education Innovators Conference (NSF report)
• A Team-Oriented, Project-Based Freshman Problem Solving Course:Benefits Of Early Exposure Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kettering University 

Industry-University Interactions

• (Re)inventing Government-Industry R&D Collaboration
• University Interaction with Industry - July 1999 UCSD - Benefits of University-Industry Interaction
• Managing the Industry-University Cooperative Research Center

Technology Transfer from Universities to Industry

• Association of University Technology Transfer Managers
• World Association of Technology Transfer Organizations
• Association of European Science & Technology Transfer Professionals
• Japanese Law Promoting Technology Transfer from Universities to Industry
• Technology Transfer: Moving Innovations from Academia to Industry - The Womens Technology Cluster
• Technology Transfer Centers: The NASA Commercial Technology Program 
• Mid-Continent Technology Transfer Center (a NASA-funded Regional Technology Transfer Center [RTTC])
• National Governors Association: Building State Economies by Promoting University-Industry Technology Transfer (report)
• Yahoo Directory: B2B Technology Transfer Directory
• Best Practices Memo: University Sponsored Research Agreements - Computing Research Association 

Undergraduate Research

• Council on Undergraduate Research
• AT&T Undergraduate Research Program
• National Conference on Undergraduate Research
• NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program
• Undergraduate Internship Program - US Dept of Energy

The Systems Approach to Research

• Discussion on the Systems Driven Approach to Research Planning
• TSI Systems Approach Research

R&D Budgets in Government and Industry

• Tech companies farm out R&D: Scarce innovation budgets justify the 'calculated risk'
• R&D Growth Continues Amid Softness in Economy and High-Tech Sector

Other Federally Sponsored University Research Centers Programs

• NSF Nanoscale Science & Engineering Centers
• NSF Science and Technology Centers
• NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers
• NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers

Engineering Society Homepages

• American Indian Science & Engineering Society
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• American Society of Agricultural Engineers
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• American Society for Engineering Education
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Aquacultural Engineering Society
• Audio Engineering Society
• Biomedical Engineering Society 
• Illuminating Engineering Society of North America
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• The International Society for Optical Engineering
• National Society of Professional Engineers
• Society of Automotive Engineers
• Society for Biomaterials
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers
• Society of Women Engineers

Everything Else that Pertains to ERC Interests

Biotechnology

• Biomaterials Network
• Tissue Engineering Pages
• Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative 
• Biomedical Engineering Network 
• Biomedical Engineering Society 
• Industry University Center for Biosurfaces
• Surfaces in Biomaterials Foundation 
• Society for Biomaterials 
• Biomateria.com 

Microelectronics, Sensing & Information Technology

Power Electronics:
• Power Sources Manufacturers Association
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Power Electronics Society
• American Society for Engineering Education
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers

 

 

Semiconductors:

• Sematech Official Semiconductor Industry Dictionary
• Semiconductor Manufacturing Tour
• Semiconductor Manufacturing Process Overview
• Semiconductor Manufacturing 101 (Red Herring)
• Semiconductor Manufacturing Process Description
• The Semiconductor Manufacturing Process
• Semiconductor Manufacturing Process Tutorials
• Semiconductor Manufacturing - An Overview
• Benchmarking Semiconductor Manufacturing
• The 300mm Challenge
• Faster, Smaller, Cheaper Chips
• IBM Manufacturing and the Environment
• Jake Page, "Making the Chips that Run the World," Smithsonian, January 2000