Silicon Valley Immersion Program

This paper explores how learning immersion experiences can improve the cache of the student experience at The University of Akron. Then the planning and coordination of northeast Ohio\u27s first university-led silicon valley learning immersion trip, Zips in the Valley, are detailed

Thin-film Block Copolymers (BCPs) Self-assembly as Versatile Patterning Scheme for Functional Nanomaterials

Nanopattern generation is required for building various structural entities in every production process that involves nanostructures. Advancing nanopatterning technologies play an important role in developing and broadening the current nanopatterning technologies to meet up with the ever-demanding requirements in the realm of smaller feature sizes, smoother line-edge roughness (LER) and facile pattern transfer in pursuit of faster computer processors, better electrocatalysts and more compact and intelligent sensors, etc. Conventionally, patterning needs are heavily relied on photolithography, a technique that dominate chip-making industry for more than 50 years. However conventional photolithography is bounded by inherent resolution limits and difficult to be applied on non-flat, flexible, or stretchable substrates. Advancement in patterning techniques are urgently needed to enhance the capability for sub-10 nm patterning onto versatile substrates. The patterning techniques adopted in this work is a bottom-up self-assembly driven scheme based on the phase segregation of block copolymers (BCPs). Cleverly designed BCPs system can generate self-assembled pattern to give a sub-10 nm pitch, demonstrating the tremendous potential of novel BCP chemistries in generating sub-10 nm features. Recent excellent works on BCPs with sub-10 nm natural periods are timely reviewed, and key principles in designing next generation BCP candidates for extreme scale lithography are proposed in the outlook. Thin film BCPs templates were leveraged to generate patterns on various substrates including silicon, gold, glassy carbon, reduced graphene oxide, Nafion ® membrane, and perfluorinated anion exchange membrane. The profound meaning of these demonstration is twofold, firstly showcased the robustness and wide portability of the tested BCP patterning scheme, secondly demonstration of introducing the BCP templates onto smart substrates that have special functionality and wide implications. Further ionization and metallization of BCPs templates exemplify the feasibility of fabricating nanostructured electrolytes and metal nanowires with controlled periodic features sizes. Ordered nanostructures with designed ionic loadings, metal densities on functional substrates open up tremendous possibility to be incorporated into sensor, nanoseparators and nanoreactors with novel properties that yet to be uncovered

Understanding the global refugee crisis: managerial consequences and policy implications

The number of refugees is predicted to increase continually this century. We tackle the topic of the global refugee crisis and, in particular, its business and management implications. We investigate the dynamics of refugee integration and settlement processes, and present evidence for the specific challenges associated with the refugee crisis. Drawing on the organizational justice and inclusion literatures, we present the benefits of using organizational justice theory as a template for understanding refugee inclusion and for developing organizational practices and policies that support refugee inclusion. Supporting the UN’s call for more company participation in achieving Sustainable Development Goals, we argue for more active involvement of host country organizations as part of the solution to this global crisis. We also call for greater attention from business and management scholars to issues related to forced migration and refugee inclusion in the workplace. We discuss implications for theory, business practices, and public policies

Comparisons & analyses of U.S. & global economic data & trends

Issued as final reportSRI Internationa

Developing physical properties of hierarchical nanostructures for biomedical applications

The present dissertation focuses on the different properties of selfaggregation processes of mixed molecular systems with the aim to design and optimize complex structures that promote the triggering of sequences leading to the deposition, nucleation and growth of hydroxyapatite crystals with the proper geometry and orientation. New strategies and novel synthetic routes were effectively developed, resulting in economically viable materials that mimic the structure and composition of the extracellular matrix, making them eligible and suitable for numerous applications in tissue regeneration and biomedical engineering

Evaluating end-of-life strategies for decommissioned semiconductor facilities

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-118).This thesis studies the life-cycle of semiconductor facilities and the potential roles that they may play once they reach the end of their life. Specifically, the author's findings are based on studies associated with the decommissioning of a semiconductor manufacturing facility ("fab") at the Intel Corporation's Aloha Campus in Portland, Oregon. With increasing demarids for its products, Intel is constructing newer and more modern facilities to support large-scale manufacturing efforts. As newer product lines and facilities come on line, older product lines are being eliminated and older semiconductor facilities that produced them are consequently being shut down largely without regard for what their use will be afterwards. As such, this study starts by first looking at the concept of facility life-cycle with respect to semiconductor manufacturing facilities. After discussing potential pre-shutdown planning requirements, the author presents an empirical framework for evaluating possible roles that these fabrication facilities could play after they are taken out of service. In brief, the framework consists of five general steps - (1) establish reference state; (2) develop list of alternatives; (3) establish decision factors; (4) generate measures for comparison; and (5) compare and contrast to draw conclusions -and is based upon a thorough consideration of all relevant technical, strategic, and financial issues. The paper then applies the framework to a current semiconductor manufacturing facility that was the focus of this research. The example developed for Intel's Fab 4 demonstrates that a combination of a short-term role (utilizing the building as a manufacturing support platform) and a long-term strategy (combining the resources of Fab 4 and Fab 5) appears to be the "most feasible" set of alternatives. In addition, the methodology is then applied to other examples of past and potential future wafer fabrication facility decommissioning projects. Conclusions from this research indicate that a process-oriented (rather than outcome-oriented) framework best captures the iterative and dynamic nature of the problem. As such, the major contribution of this methodology is that it presents a framework for how to think about the problem rather than how to immediately solve it. As such, the author believes that the research results presented herein are not intended to be a panacea for what remains to be a difficult problem. However, since companies will no longer be able to walk away from existing facilities, the author concludes that incremental investment and planning for adaptive re-use during the facility's lifetime would appear to offer numerous advantages over waiting until after it is shut down.by Kevin Michael Stewart.S.M.M.B.A

Сборник текстов по чтению на английском языке для студентов специальности 1-40 03 01 Искусственный интеллект

Venskovich Mikhail Stanislavovich; Shpudeiko Lyudmila Nikolaevna; Kisten Natalya Vasilievna. Artificial intelligence. Collection of texts on reading in English for students of the specialty 1-40 03 01 Artificial intelligenceСборник текстов по чтению на английском языке предназначается, прежде всего, для студентов специальности 1 – 40 03 01 Искусственный интеллект, но может использоваться и студентами, изучающими вычислительные машины, системы, комплексы и сети. Цель пособия – совершенствование навыков чтения и понимания аутентичной научно-технической литературы по изучаемой специальности, развитие навыков перевода