Mission Statement
- Develop new and "disruptive" technologies based upon new organic and hybrid materials processed into devices at low cost
- Create a better-trained, diverse workforce in the area of materials and devices for information technology, and to improve the diversity of that work force through proactive recruiting and innovative web-based cooperative learning
- Create new opportunities for providing interdisciplinary, hands-on education by facilitating exchange of students amongst groups with diverse research capabilities and interests
Drumheller Fountain, University of Washington
- Formulate cooperative research and development agreements, intellectual property agreements, and personnel exchanges to promote inter-university, research university/designated-minority institution, and university/industry/Federal laboratory interactions
- Develop and implement new modes of technology transfer and entrepreneurship and assess how these modes impact inventors (students, faculty, and postdoctoral fellows) and universities
- Create road maps for organic and hybrid photonics and electronics
- Design, implement, and assess new educational approaches that provide more flexible and accessible career pathways for students
- Provide ethics training at each university to all incoming members; topics will include scientific integrity, the concept of inventorship, accurate record keeping, and the requirement to share credit
