{"id":3907,"date":"2011-07-13T18:46:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T18:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2011\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2011-07-19T15:05:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:05:20","slug":"memsmit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2011\/memsmit\/","title":{"rendered":"MEMS@MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p>The MEMS@MIT Center serves to unite the wide-ranging campus  activities in micro\/nano systems and MEMS with forward-looking  industrial organizations.\u00a0 Currently, MEMS@MIT is composed of more than  150 faculty, students, and staff working on a broad research agenda and  supported by more than $15 million\/year in research sponsorship.\u00a0 The  MEMS research efforts on campus focus on four overarching themes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Materials, Processes, and Devices for MEMS &#8211; including work on  piezoelectrics, magnetics, materials\/package reliability, DRIE, wafer  bonding, plastic fabrication, and printed MEMS<\/li>\n<li>Biological and Chemical MEMS &#8211; includes cell manipulation, DNA and  protein processing, biomolecule detection, medical sensors,  microreactors, micro gas analyzers, and microfluidics<\/li>\n<li>Actuators and Power MEMS &#8211; includeing switches, mirrors, pumps,  turbines, fuel cells, thermophotovoltaics, chemical lasers, and energy  harvesting<\/li>\n<li>Sensors, Systems, and Modeling &#8211; includes wireless sensors, pressure sensing systems, and CAD for MEMS<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Membership benefits include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Insight into newest ideas in MEMS<\/li>\n<li> Early access to research results<\/li>\n<li>Early awareness of IP generated for licensing<\/li>\n<li>Access to high-quality continuing education materials<\/li>\n<li>Partnering for federal or other funding opportunities<\/li>\n<li>Recruitment of leading MIT graduates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MEMS@MIT Center serves to unite the wide-ranging campus activities in micro\/nano systems and MEMS with forward-looking industrial organizations.\u00a0 Currently,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6085],"tags":[72,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3982,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}