Education and Outreach
Education
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ICTAS Faculty Fellow Program
Designed after the prestigious Fellow Awards in Bell Labs and other institutions, this program will honor top notch faculty through recognition at a public ceremony and a financial award. It will be limited to 0.1% of the faculty per year with a lifetime cap of 1% This program is in the early stages of formulation and details will be announced as we sort through the resources to fund it.
ICTAS Doctoral Scholars Program
A new program, the ICTAS Doctoral Scholars Program, was established in 2007 to honor exceptional Ph.D. applicants with a Graduate Research Assistantship through the Ph.D. qualifying period. This program is a cooperative effort supported and coordinated primarily by ICTAS, with significant contributions from participating departments, colleges, and the graduate school. Successful candidates of the highest caliber will be selected for this honor. This award is an investment in the university intellectual talent, creativity, and productivity, and complements the mission and strategic plan of the university. The initial goal for the program is to recruit 10 scholars per year toward a steady number of 40 ICTAS scholars by 2011 ad infinitum.
Doctoral Scholars Class of 2011
Doctoral Scholars Class of 2012
Outreach
ICTAS is continuously reaching out and cultivating oppertunities to devlop communities locally and globally.
Virginia’s A. L. Philpott Manufacturing Extension Partnership (VPMEP)
Virginia Tech and VPMEP are partnering to create a framework by which Virginia Tech, primarily through the College of Engineering, and VPMEP jointly promote technical assistance, research, and outreach with manufacturing interests in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This collaborative effort is expected to improve competitiveness of manufacturers across the Commonwealth. ICTAS will coordinate the Virginia Tech effort on behalf of the College of Engineering.
Robert (Bob) Schwabik, Project Manager for Technology Transfer, will nurture a pipeline connection with clients of the Virginia A. L. Philpott Manufacturing Extension Partnership (VPMEP) as well as with the fifty nine centers currently participating in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NIST MEP). Bob has over 38 years total industrial experience, including more than 10 years at VPMEP.
Assisting Virginias small manufacturers in understanding and protecting intellectual property and serving as a resource for interfacing with Tech's vast inventory of technology and intellectual property is a new area for the Manufacturing Extension Program. One of the first steps planned to advance university discoveries is to help researchers communicate (via invention disclosure) the unique technology or expertise that is presented in the disclosure so that the technology or expertise and the potential applications are more apparent to the non-technical reader. This undertaking is co-sponsored by Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.