NSF CHREC - Members

Through participation as research partners in the Center, industry and government members directly benefit in terms of research achievement and technology transfer with a leveraged and synergistic funding pool, collaboration and cooperation with other members, and access to a strong cadre of faculty members, graduate students, and post-doctoral researchers. CHREC members have influence over and access to a broad range of cost-effective research activities at the leading edge of this important new field. They select the project topics that their resources will support and review project progress and results on a semiannual formal basis and continual informal basis and thus benefit from research results in a timely fashion, before new developments lead to publications, with full access to all intellectual property emerging from the Center. Members leverage strong university research labs with world-class facilities. In addition to work conducted in the Center, many benefits arise between members from their memberships, such as new industrial partnerships and teaming opportunities. Recruitment is also a major advantage of participation in CHREC, leveraging interactions with many bright and highly educated and skilled students.

Per NSF guidelines, industry and government contributions in the form of annual CHREC membership fees, coupled with baseline funds from NSF, university matching funds, and product donations from vendor partners, directly support the operations of the Center in terms of various costs for personnel, equipment, travel, and supplies. Membership fees provide the requisite funds to support the Center's graduate students on a one-to-one basis, and thus the size of the annual membership fee is directly proportional to the cost of supporting one graduate student, while NSF and university funds support various other costs of operation. Multiple annual memberships may be contributed by any organization that wishes to support multiple students and/or projects. The total operating budget for CHREC is projected to approach $2M/year, in an academic environment that is extremely cost-effective. Thus, a single membership ($35K/yr) is an exceptional value. It represents less than 2% of the projected annual budget of the Center yet reaps the full benefit of all Center activities, a research program that could easily cost more than $10M/year to operate in an industry or government facility.

The organization for CHREC can be found here. For more information about CHREC, please contact one of our directors.

Directors:
Professor Alan D. George (UF), Center Director
Professor Tarek El-Ghazawi (GWU), Co-Director
Professor Brent Nelson (BYU), Co-Director (pending partner institution)
Professor Shawn Bohner (VT), Co-Director (pending partner institution)

Industrial Advisory Board:
Chair: Alan Hunsberger, National Security Agency
Vice-Chair: Nick Papageorgis, Smiths Aerospace Inc.

CHREC Center Coordinator:
Jena Slocum, slocum@chrec.ufl.edu

NSF Center Evaluator:
Dr. Vida Scarpello, vscarpello@bellsouth.net


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	Through participation as research partners in the Center, industry and government members directly benefit in terms of research achievement and technology transfer with a leveraged and synergistic funding pool, collaboration and cooperation with other members, and access to a strong cadre of faculty members, graduate students, and post-doctoral researchers. CHREC members have influence over and access to a broad range of cost-effective research activities at the leading edge of this important new field. They select the project topics that their resources will support and review project progress and results on a semiannual formal basis and continual informal basis and thus benefit from research results in a timely fashion, before new developments lead to publications, with full access to all intellectual property emerging from the Center. Members leverage strong university research labs with world-class facilities. In addition to work conducted in the Center, many benefits arise between members from their memberships, such as new industrial partnerships and teaming opportunities. Recruitment is also a major advantage of participation in CHREC, leveraging interactions with many bright and highly educated and skilled students. Per NSF guidelines, industry and government contributions in the form of annual CHREC membership fees, coupled with baseline funds from NSF, university matching funds, and product donations from vendor partners, directly support the operations of the Center in terms of various costs for personnel, equipment, travel, and supplies. Membership fees provide the requisite funds to support the Center's graduate students on a one-to-one basis, and thus the size of the annual membership fee is directly proportional to the cost of supporting one graduate student, while NSF and university funds support various other costs of operation. Multiple annual memberships may be contributed by any organization that wishes to support multiple students and/or projects. The total operating budget for CHREC is projected to approach $2M/year, in an academic environment that is extremely cost-effective. Thus, a single membership ($35K/yr) is an exceptional value. It represents less than 2% of the projected annual budget of the Center yet reaps the full benefit of all Center activities, a research program that could easily cost more than $10M/year to operate in an industry or government facility. The organization for CHREC can be found here. For more information about CHREC, please contact one of our directors. Directors: Professor Alan D. George (UF), Center Director Professor Tarek El-Ghazawi (GWU), Co-Director Professor Brent Nelson (BYU), Co-Director (pending partner institution) Professor Shawn Bohner (VT), Co-Director (pending partner institution) Industrial Advisory Board: Chair: Alan Hunsberger, National Security Agency Vice-Chair: Nick Papageorgis, Smiths Aerospace Inc. CHREC Center Coordinator: Jena Slocum, slocum@chrec.ufl.edu NSF Center Evaluator: Dr. Vida Scarpello, vscarpello@bellsouth.net