Our Outreach Efforts

 

High School Outreach Efforts

 

 

 

 

DFW Semiconductor Executive Council  Advanced Summer Institute for Educators

 

·          Summer program for DFW area High School Teachers

·          Teacher learned about new technologies in semiconductors, MEMS and photonics.

·          Career planning seminar for student advising.

·          Hands-on demo

·          Programs active since 2004. Dr. Chiao is the first organizer.

 

 

 

UTA Fort Worth ISD Academic Connection

 

·          Lectures to Fort Worth ISD High School to inspire students in engineering and science

·          Organized by the Dr. Judy Reinhartz College of Education

 

 

 

Texas Accelerated Science Achievement Program (Texas ASAP)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 US-Mexico Outreach Efforts (website established for the lectures, click )

 

2005 July 10-13

 

Guadalajara

Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN

Unidad Guadalajara

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

 

MEMS Lecture Series

 

Organized by Dr. Antonio Ramírez Treviño

 

·          Attendees came from 9 Universities in Mexico

·          Sponsored by FUMEC (United State – Mexico Foundation for Science) and Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN

·          Website and lecture mateirals

 

 

2005 March 3-5

 

Monterrey

Student Society of Electronics and Communications Engineering

Tecnologico de Monterrey

Monterrey, N.L. Mexico

 

This is part of the education effort in the

20th International Symposium in Electronics and Communications – SIDEC BioMEMS

 

MEMS Lecture Series

 

Organized by Rodrigo Martinez Duarte and about 40 undergraduate students

 

·          The first Symposium in Mexico and Latin America for BioMEMS

·          More than 800 students from many universities all over the Mexico

·          UTA participating the lectures in MEMS fabrication, Medical MEMS and RFMEMS

·          Broke a Guiness World Record with more than 3000 students’ handprint painting outside of the lecture auditorium.

·          The website is in Flash, the screen captures are here: Front page, RF MEMS

 

2004 Oct. 4-6

 

Guadalajara

Guadalajara the Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Zapópan

 
MEMS Lecture Series

 

Organized by José Manuel Gaytán Pérez

 

2004 Sept. 5-8

 

Juárez

Instituto de Ingenieria y Tecnologia

Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, México

MEMS Lecture Series

 

Organized by Dr. Jose Mireles Jr. Garcia

 

·          Attendees came from 12 Universities and companies in Mexico

·          More than 250 undergraduate students attended the E-week talk “Lilliputian’s Machines for Gulliver’s World – Medical Applications for MEMS”

·          Sponsored by FUMEC (United State – Mexico Foundation for Science) and Instituto de Ingenieria y Tecnologia, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

·          Part of the E-week effort at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

·          Website and lecture mateirals

 

2003 Sept. 5-8

 

Puerto Vallarta

First MEMS Ibero-American workshop

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

 

Organized by Drs. Ing. Guillermo Fernandez de la Garza (FUMEC), Jose Mireles Jr. (UCJA) and Frank Lewis (UT-Arlington) and Juan Villalvazo Naranjo

 

Sponsored by Mexican Academy of Sciences, CONACyT, Government of Jalisco, FUMEC, National Science Foundation, and University of Guadalajara.

 

2003 July 10-12

 

Veracruz

Universidad Veracruzana

 

Organized by Dr. Jose Tello Allende

 

RF MEMS lecture series

 

·          Attendees came from more than 20 Universities and companies in Mexico

·          Sponsored by FUMEC (United State – Mexico Foundation for Science) and Universidad Veracruzana.

·          Lecture materials were distributed at the classroom.

 

 

Industry Outreach Efforts

 

2005 Feb. 08

2005 MUMPS Workshop

Hosted by Dr. JC. Chiao

 

2003 Jan. 8

Arlington Leadership meeting

“Big Business in Small Tech – nano and microtechnologies”

 

Regular

UTA MEMS

Seminar

Distinguished Speaker Series Micro & Nano-Systems

Organized by Dr. Zeynep Celik-Butler

Websites:

2005 Spring

2004 Fall

2004 Spring

2003 Fall

 

Links

Organizations we worked with for industrial collaboration

 

ARRI

 

StarTech

Arlington Technology Incubator

Greater Dallas Chamber

National RFID

 

 

Austin Ventures

Sevin Rosen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Created by JC Chiao