Title: Forging Strategic Partnerships in
1Forging Strategic Partnerships in Environmental
Systems, Biotechnology and Agricultural Research
for Space Applications
A working meeting held at North Carolina State
University September 25, 2002 Hosted by the
North Carolina Space Initiative
2Participating Institutions
- University of Florida
- North Carolina State University
- UNC Office of the President
- NC AT State University
- UNC-Charlotte
- UNC-Chapel Hill
- UNC-Pembroke
- Winston Salem State University
- Research Triangle Institute
- NC Technology Development Association
- University of Tennessee - Knoxville
3Purpose of Todays Meeting
- To explore mutually beneficial collaborations
among researchers in Florida, North Carolina and
Tennessee in the context of two programs - Environmental Commercial Space Technology Center
(ES CSTC) - Space Biotechnology and Commercial Applications
Program
4Todays Agenda
- Welcome and Opening Remarks Chris Brown
- Overview of NASA Research in NC Chris Brown
- Overview of NASA Research at UF Peggy Evanich
- Environmental Systems Commercial Space Technology
Center - Program Overview Bill Sheehan
- Solid Waste Recovery Bill Sheehan
- Air Revitalization and Water Recovery David
Mazyck - Other UF Research with ESCSTC Applications
Richard Yost - Break
5Todays Agenda
- Space Biotechnology and Commercial Applications
Program - Program Overview Peggy Evanich
- Center for Space Agriculture and Biotechnology
Research and Education (SABRE) Rob Ferl - Integrated Smart Nanosensors for Space
Biotechnology Applications Toshikazu Nishida - Commercial Applications and University
Partnerships for Space Biotechnology Bill
Sheehan - Lunch
- Potential for Collaborations All
- Reconvene and Adjourn
6north carolina space initiative
a program of the kenan institute for engineering,
technology science
7Goals of the NC Space Initiative
- To establish networks to facilitate collaborative
projects - Fundamental and applied space research
- Education in space science, engineering,
business, and policy - Outreach and engagement
- To compete for NASA / other funding
- To apply space technology to issues of concern to
our state and region - To attract space-related industry to our state
and our region - To Make NC a Leading Space State
8Overview of Selected NASA Programs in North
Carolina
- North Carolina State University
- North Carolina AT State University
- University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- Duke University
- Research Triangle Institute
9North Carolina State University
- National leader in Science, Engineering and
Technology - Land Grant University founded 1887
- Centennial Campus established 1984
- 28,000 students, 1,600 faculty, 10 colleges
- 105,215 acres (1,877 in Raleigh)
- Federal research expenditures FY01- 90M
- Total RD expenditures - 300 million
- 35 Engineering 7 Textiles
- 20 Ag and Life Sci 5 Education
- 20 Physical/Math Sci 3 Other
- 10 Vet Medicine
- Number of patents since 1992 350
- Top ten for industry sponsored research
- Ranked 17th nationally for licensing revenues and
patents - Ranked 4th nationally for spinning off start-up
companies
Red Wolf
Moreland/Brown
10NC State and NASA
- From FY97 - FY01, NC State awarded 13.2M in NASA
grants - 1997 - 2.8M
- 1998 - 2.7M
- 1999 - 3.1M
- 2000 - 2.3M
- 2001 - 2.3M
- In 2001, NCSU had 43 competitively awarded NASA
grants and contracts
STS 89, Jan 1998
Bell Tower at NCSU
Moreland/Brown
11NC State involved with 4 NASA Strategic
Enterprises and Education
SeaWiFS
- Examples
- Biological and Physical Research Plant
gravitropism A transgenic approach (Perera, Boss
- Botany) - Aerospace Technology Uninhabited aerial vehicle
Testing (Chokani, Hall, Heinzen - Mech. Aero.
Engr.) - Earth Science SeaWiFS data from the Indian
Ocean (Morrison - Marine, Earth and Atm. Science) - Space Science - X-ray emission and dynamics of
supernova remnants (Reynolds - Physics) - Education - Space biology lectures in digital
format (Brown - Kenan Institute and Botany)
Moreland/Brown
12NC State is home to 55 established research
institutes, centers, laboratories, consortia and
initiatives. Four of these are directly related
to NASA missions
Arabidopsis Root Cap (Scott and Allen)
- NASA Specialized Center for Plant Gravitational
Genomics - Center for Earth Observation
- North Carolina Space Grant Consortium
- North Carolina Space Initiative
These Centers are one way NCSU
links with other organizations with like-minded
goals
Moreland/Brown
13An Advanced Technology Community for University,
Industry and Government Partnerships
- Five multi-disciplinary RD neighborhoods
- Bioscience and Biotechnology
- Advanced Materials
- Pre-College Education
- Environmental Technologies
- Advanced Communications Technologies
Moreland/Brown
14NC AT STATE UNIVERSITY
- Comprehensive Land Grant University in
Greensboro, NC with an enrollment of 8,300 - Seven schools and colleges Agriculture, Arts
Sciences, Business Economics, Education,
Engineering, Nursing, Technology - Undergraduate and Graduate programs with Doctoral
programs in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical,
and Industrial Systems) - Top 5 HBCUs in federal RD obligations
- Top 5 universities in NC in research productivity
- Total program funding of 32M
- Current portfolio of 277 projects at 129M
Psalmonds
15NC AT is involved with 4 NASA Strategic
Enterprises
Examples Aerospace Technology Investigation of
aero servo structural interactions in aerospace
applications Biological and Physical Research
Logistics in a food production system using
intelligent agents Human Exploration and
Development of Space Performance modeling of a
pilot in a free flight mode Earth Science A web
based visualization tool for 3D/4D imagery and
geospatial information
Psalmonds
16TECH TRANSFER, EDUCATION and PUBLIC OUTREACH
- NASA Southeast Regional Technology Transfer
Center (http//dor.ncat.edu/ottc/serttc) - Integration of NASA Research into Undergraduate
Education in Mathematics, Science, Engineering
and Technology - NASA Space Grant College and Fellowship Program
- NASA Sharp Plus Program
- Ronald E. McNair Graduate Research Fellowship
Program - Undergraduate and Graduate Student Researchers
Program
Psalmonds
17Among the Leaders
- Now 20th in federal science engineering
support, and the only N.C. university in the top
20 (NSF) - First among public universities in the south in
NIH funding (13th overall) - Among the top four public research universities
in the nation (Lombardi et al., 2000) - 9th nationally in federal funding for
fellowships, traineeships, and training grants - 42 of our graduate programs in the top 25
- 11th in faculty members in national academies (35)
Lowman
18Collaborationin science and education
Lowman
19Left Carbon nanotubes Below Otto Zhous lab
- Research to understand carbon nanotubes,
understand their intercalation chemistry, and
evaluate them as potential energy storage
devices.
Lowman
20Medical Science has been Important to NASA
- Since 1989, NASA has supported Professor Mitsuo
Yamauchi in the UNC-Chapel Hill School of
Dentistry - Studies have included biochemical changes of bone
in a model of weightlessness and bone matrix
changes during skeletal unloading and reloading
Lowman
21NASA Research Activities at Duke
- Prebreathe Reduction Protocol (PRP) Trials
- Effects of Precipitation Variability and
Desertification on Water Dynamics in Arid Lands
A Patch and Landscape Modeling - The Impacts of Land-Use/Land-Cover in Amazonia on
Hydrometeorological Processes at Different
Spatial and Temporal Scales - The Influence of Irrigation on Warm Season
Precipitation in the Great Plains - Modeling of Unsteady Three-Dimensional Flows in
Multistage Machines - The Mechanics of Flapping Flight
- An Investigation of the Geometrical Scaling
Properties of Inflatable Structures Used for
Space Solar Power Generation
Hall
22Research Triangle Institute
RTI is an independent, non-profit research
organization of 1950 individuals in 115
disciplines dedicated to improving the human
condition
Winfield
23NASA/RTI Technology Commercialization Contract
Winfield
24Forging Strategic Partnerships in Environmental
Systems, Biotechnology and Agricultural Research
for Space Applications
A working meeting held at North Carolina State
University September 25, 2002 Hosted by the
North Carolina Space Initiative