Center for Advanced Processing and Packaging Studies

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1998
Center for Advanced Processingand
Packaging Studies
1987
1994
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Transition to Self-Sufficiency Critical
Questions
NCSU Site-Ken Swartzel -Josip
Simunovic OSU SiteSudhir Sastry
-Steve Schwartz UC-D Site- Sharon Shoemaker

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Transition to Self-Sufficiency Critical
Questions

• No More NSF! No More Alex!
• What Will We Do?????
• Who Are We Going To Call?
• The Rules Change
• The Leverage Factor Changes-s!
• University Perception Changes!
• Industrially Relevant Basic
  Research
• 
  versus
• Contract
  Research
• Reality Changes!
• Graduate Education
• What Are We All About?

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Transition to Self-Sufficiency Critical
Questions

• Drive to Seek New Non-Industry Funding
• Reclaim Leverage Factor
• Reclaim Credibility
• Reclaim Operating Dollars
• Reclaim Relationships
• No More Tie Projects
• No More EPSCoR Projects
• No More Undergraduate Supplements
• No More Industry Fellowships
• No More Long-Term Projects
• No More NSF Co-Sponsored
• International Conferences

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Transition to Self-Sufficiency Critical
Questions
Excommunication from The NSF IUCRC Program Does
Not Mean Falling from Grace-Or Does
It?---Perception or Reality?