{"296491":{"#nid":"296491","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Part of Four Grants Intended to Strengthen U.S. Manufacturing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETeams from the Georgia Institute of Technology are recipients of four grants recently announced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The funding is designed to support research that will strengthen U.S. manufacturing and innovation performance across industries.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe NIST grants, which range from $378,900 to $540,000, were part of $9 million in advanced technology planning grants awarded to 19 universities and other nonprofit organizations and are the first conferred by NIST\u2019s inaugural Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia (AMTech).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETodd McDevitt, associate professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Stem Cell Engineering Center, will serve as the technical lead for the $499,636 AMTech grant awarded to the Georgia Research Alliance, in partnership with Georgia Tech. With cell therapy manufacturing projected to grow rapidly over the next decade, the funds will be used to establish a national road map and consortium in cell manufacturing to improve access to cutting-edge medical technology for patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBen Wang, executive director of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute, will serve as the lead for a second AMTech grant totaling $385,112 that will help speed development and deployment of advanced composites.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Institute of Paper Science and Technology, part of the Agenda 2020 Technology Alliance, is a collaborator on the $482,078 NIST funded project that will map pathways for developing advanced technologies for pulp and paper manufacturing. The Agenda 2020 Technology Alliance is an industry-led consortium that promotes development of advanced technologies for the pulp and paper industry.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETom Kurfess, professor, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and HUSCO\/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control, is part of a $434,577 award led by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing \u0026amp; Machining focused on developing a strategy and roadmap to identify current barriers to full adoption of MTConnect, an evolving interoperability standard for manufacturing. The funding will also determine the best path forward to achieve widespread implementation across manufacturing industries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETechnology road mapping is a key component of all funded AMTech projects. Each consortium will engage manufacturers of all sizes, university researchers, trade associations and other stakeholders in an interactive process to identify and prioritize research projects that reduce shared barriers to the growth of advanced manufacturing in the United States.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is a national leader in research, education, policy and industrial assistance related to manufacturing. President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson serves on the Steering Committee of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, and Georgia Tech\u2019s Enterprise Innovation Institute runs the Manufacturing Extension Partnership for the state of Georgia (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gamep.org\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/gamep.org\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/gamep.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E). \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"National Institute of Standards and Technology Awards Inaugural Funding"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETeams from the Georgia Institute of Technology are recipients of four grants recently announced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The funding is designed to support research that will strengthen U.S. manufacturing and innovation performance across industries.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Teams from the Georgia Institute of Technology are recipients of four grants recently announced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2014-05-12 09:13:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:26","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"296611":{"id":"296611","type":"image","title":"Manufacturing","body":null,"created":"1449244530","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:55:30","changed":"1475894995","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:55","alt":"Manufacturing","file":{"fid":"199417","name":"13c3000-p1-125.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/13c3000-p1-125_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/13c3000-p1-125_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2256510,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/13c3000-p1-125_0.jpg?itok=NUBFXuU2"}}},"media_ids":["296611"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gamep.org\/","title":"Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/director\/amtech-050814.cfm","title":"NIST Awards 19 Advanced Manufacturing Technology Planning Grants"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/","title":"National Institute of Standards and Technology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"215","name":"manufacturing"},{"id":"10619","name":"National Institute of Standards and Technology"},{"id":"10598","name":"NIST"},{"id":"167413","name":"Stem Cell"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}