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TxAIRE |
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The University of Texas at
Tyler has received $3,750,000 from the Emerging
Technology Fund/Research Superiority Acquisition of
Talent Grant to establish TxAIRE, the Texas Allergy,
Indoor Environment, and Energy Institute. Further, The
University of Texas at Tyler and the University of Texas
System have committed $2,500,000 to support TxAIRE over
five years.
The mission of TxAIRE will be to provide the
infrastructure and critical mass of first-rate
authorities for its academic, health, and industrial
partners to identify and understand indoor air
pollutants, assess their health effects, develop new
technologies for improving residential air quality and
controlling associated energy costs, and bring those
products to commercialization. TxAIRE will focus on
applied technologies that will lead to viable products
that can be taken to market quickly either by new
start-up firms or by expansions within existing
manufacturers in the region. The ultimate purpose of
TxAIRE is to generate significant expansions and new
business ventures for manufacture of IEQ and micro-CHP
products in Northeast Texas.
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COSMOS |
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The Center for Organic
Semiconductor Modeling and Simulation (COSMOS) was
established through federal funding. COSMOS will
constitute a collaborative research program between The
University of Texas at Tyler and The University of Texas
at Dallas to develop a scientific approach for
describing organic electronics. Behavior modeling and
asynchronous distributed simulation will be used to
model electronic transport in molecular systems, in
conjunction with device fabrication and testing to
improve the understanding of organic semiconductor
materials and devices. In this research program,
representative organic semiconductor devices with
different molecules, grain sizes, grain orientations,
and other parameters will be fabricated; their
electrical characteristics measured; and original
mathematical and computer models to describe the
electrical characteristics of the devices will be
developed, validated, and refined. The use of analytic
equations will be followed by discrete-event-based
behavior modeling and simulation to accelerate the
development process, permitting progress in a scientific
and systematic manner. The eventual goal of the research
is to achieve a high degree of understanding, so that it
will be possible to first predict and then control the
behavior of real-world flexible electronics
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TSTEM |
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Through
funding from the Texas Education Agency High School
Program, The University of Texas at Tyler established
the East Texas Center for STEM Education focusing on
rural communities. The center will conduct empirical
research, provide technical assistance, professional
development opportunities, and access to research-based
curriculum materials, The Center is envisaged to be a
recognized model of an interdisciplinary,
technology-based approach for teaching, research, and
service in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics (STEM) education community. The mission is
to bring together education, business, industry, and
governmental agencies to create a world class STEM
education system (P16) that results in the development
of STEM students, teachers, professionals, and leaders
prepared for the evolving challenges of the 21st
century. A primary goal of the center is to develop
effective evidence-based graduate and undergraduate
teacher preparation and professional development
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