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Outreach Program Title:
Advance
Women in Science, Technology,
Engineering and Math
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Lisa
Harlow
Phone:
(401)
874-4242
Fax:
(401)
874-5545
E-mail:
Lharlow@uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
Participate in ongoing Advance work and Chair the
Evaluation/Assessment of this grant
Outreach Program Impact Statement:
This just started but is already a visible
presence on campus, raising awareness and providing resources to
advance women in science related fields
Outreach Program Title:
Air
Pollution Research Laboratory
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Osama
Ibrahim
Phone:
(401)
874-2535
Fax:
(401)
874-2355
E-mail:
Outreach Program Description:
Air Pollution; Air Pollution Monitoring Instrumentation; Remote
sensing; Indoor Air Pollution
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Outreach Program Title:
Business
Association and Manufacturing Alliance (WBAMA)
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Marcia
Feld
Phone:
(401)
277-5235
Fax:
(401)
277-5263
E-mail:
mfeld@uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
To expand the presence of small businesses in the neighborhood, and
to call attention to the needs of local entrepreneurs, the
Woodlawn/University of Rhode Island (URI) COPC and its partners will
establish the Woodlawn Business Association and Manufacturing
Alliance (WBAMA).
Outreach Program Impact Statement:
The alliance is expected to provide local businesses with a
stronger voice at the local and State levels, increase contact among
businesses, and create a greater awareness of local and regional
business conditions.
Outreach Program Title:
Business
Internships
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Everett
Harris
Phone:
(401)
874-2955
Fax:
(401)
874-4312
E-mail:
harrisey@etal.uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
This internship program places seniors and advanced juniors from
the College of Business Administration in sites around the state.
Interns put in 120 hours at a site during a regular semester.
Outreach Program Impact Statement:
The students learn real world business practice. The site has the
use of the student's information, enthusiasm and short learning
curve.
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Outreach Program Title:
Career
Day Program
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Patricia
Salazar
Phone:
(401)
874-4861
Fax:
(401)
874-2580
E-mail:
Outreach Program Description:
Outreach Program Title:
Center
for Personal Financial Education
Website:
www.gettingfiscallyfit.org
Outreach Program Director Name:
Joan
Anderson
Phone:
(401)
874-7436
Fax:
(401)
874-4020
E-mail:
grayanderson@uri.educmkerbel@etal.uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
develop and deliver personal financial education programs and
conduct related research
Outreach Program Impact Statement:
increase financial literacy; improve personal financial behavior
Outreach Program Title:
Center
for Product Innovation
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Deborah
Rosen
Phone:
(401)
874-5000
Fax:
E-mail:
drosen@uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
This URI/small business partnership was established to aid
manufacturing firms in creating new jobs through new products.
Individual companies or groups of 2 or 3 companies work with Center
faculty & students to invent, design & manufacture new
products.
Outreach Program Title:
Civil
Engineering Transportation Workshop (or Symposium) Series
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Wayne
Lee
Phone:
(401)
874-2695
Fax:
(401)
874-2786
E-mail:
lee@egr.uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
The Rhode Island Transportation Research Center (RITRC) organizes
some civil engineering transportation workshops (or symposiums) for
the practical transportation issues, e.g., pavement management
system and Superpave asphalt technology, etc. It typically features
a virtual "who's who" of internationally prominent leaders
in each topic. It aims at a broad audience including policy makers,
decision makers, small- and large-industry leaders, technical
managers, engineers, technical staffs, and public works personnel.
The intent is to provide the state-of-the-art information and
technology transfer, to provide access to resources and expertise
helpful in the solving practical problems, and to improve industry
efficiency and productivity.
Outreach Program Impact Statement:
It provides recent advances in the science and engineering of
transportation engineering and public works and practices.
Outreach Program Title:
Colloidal
and Interfacial Engineering Lab
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Arijit
Bose
Phone:
(401)
874-2804
Fax:
(401)
782-1180
E-mail:
bose@egr.uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
a) Production of Inorganic Nanoparticles (magnetic, metallic,
ceramic)& Examination of their Anomalous Properties.
Bioseparations Using Surface Functionalized Magnetic
Nanoclusters.c) Finite Element Modeling of Free Surface Flows
w/Dynamic Contact Lines
Outreach Program Title:
Computational
Mechanics Group
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Martin
Sadd
Phone:
(401)
874-5548
Fax:
(40l)
874-2355
E-mail:
sadd@egr.uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
The program is concerned with computational simulation of solid and
fluid systems. Such
simulation involves the development of appropriate models of the
problem, and results are determined using numerical methods on a
computer.
Outreach Program Impact Statement:
Computational modeling has become an essential tool for industries
across the nation and world. Our
center can develop simulations to determine stress, strain,
displacement, temperature, fluid flow, etc. within complex
engineering systems. These simulations supply our supporting industries and
government agencies with important information needed to solve
complex problems for advancing technology.
Outreach Program Title:
Computer
Training for Business, Industry and Governments
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
John
McCray
Phone:
(401)
277-5489
Fax:
(401)
277-5060
E-mail:
DRMCCRAY@URI.EDU
Outreach Program Description:
Outreach Program Title:
Consumer
Affairs Program
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Joan
Anderson
Phone:
(401)
874-4567
Fax:
(401)
874-4020
E-mail:
GRAYANDERSON@URI.EDU
Outreach Program Description:
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Outreach Program Title:
Design
for Manufacture & Assembly Center
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Winston
Knight
E-mail:
knight@egr.uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
(DFMA) enables designers and engineers to consider manufacturing
& assembly problems at the concept design stage through
prototyping. DFMA is now recognized as the essential tool in
concurrent engineering & allows increasingly accurate estimates
Outreach Program Title:
Development
of a Customer Satisfaction & Performance
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Albert
DellaBitta
Phone:
(401)
874-4232
Fax:
(401)
874-4312
E-mail:
Dbitta@uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
Development of a Customer Satisfaction and Service Quality
Measurement and Tool for the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority
Outreach Program Impact Statement:
Will assess the relative impact of RIPTA customers' ratings of
individual service attributes on overall satisfaction. Ultimately,
this method of measuring satisfaction and service quality is
expected to form the basis for standardizing RIPTA's future
assessments and tracking its success in meeting customers'
expectations for the elements of service delivery comprising the
attributes of rider satisfaction. It will also shape RIPTA's
performance measurement protocol to guide the targeting of resources
for improving service delivery and customer satisfaction.
Outreach Program Title:
Digital
Signal Processing Center
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Ramadas
Kurmaresan
Phone:
(401)
874- 4798
Fax:
(401)
782-6422
E-mail:
kumar@ele.uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
The research center is devoted to analyzing signals using
computers. processing acoustic signals such as speech, a microphone
array digital audio tape recording equipment with interface to
workstations, power amplifiers loudspeakers are available
Outreach Program Title:
Dynamic
Photomechanics Laboratory
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Arun
Shukla
Phone:
(401)
874-2283
Fax:
(401)
874-2355
E-mail:
Outreach Program Description:
The laboratory is devoted to studies of dynamic phenomena including
crack propagation, wave propagation, and impact using methods of
photomechanics, strain gages, and fiber optics.
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Outreach Program Title:
Electron
Microscopy & Imaging Facility
Website:
http://www.uri.edu/research/gsc/
Outreach Program Director Name:
Paul
Johnson
Phone:
(401)
874-5919
Fax:
(401)
874-2202
E-mail:
emif@etal.uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
The Facility offers research and teaching services in transmission
electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, cryo-transmission
electron microscopy, light microscopy with digital image acquisition
as well as laser scanning confocal microscopy
Outreach Program Title:
Electronic
Meeting Support
Website:
http://www.uri.edu/ajc/wpines/
Outreach Program Director Name:
George
Lewis
Phone:
(401)
397-3361
Fax:
(401)
397-6540
E-mail:
geolew@uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
Powerful new facilitation process that provides each participant
with a network-linked computer that assists in the exchange of
information & the development of vital consensus.
Outreach Program Title:
Employment
Network Center
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Marcia
Feld
Phone:
(401)
277-5235
Fax:
(401)
277-5263
E-mail:
mfeld@uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
The Woodlawn/University of Rhode Island (URI) COPC will be working
with members of a statewide consortium to bring an Employment
Network Center to the Woodlawn neighborhood of Pawtucket, Rhode
Island. Five Employment Network Centers are being established
throughout the State as part of the Network Rhode Island Initiative.
Outreach Program Impact Statement:
Visitors to the Woodlawn center will participate in employment and
career-identification classes and take tests that match their skills
and interests with potential jobs. They also will set career goals;
attend workshops on resume building, interview techniques, and
appearance; and participate in job-shadowing programs.
Outreach Program Title:
Engineering
Academy of Southern New England
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Harold
Knickle
Phone:
(401)
874-
Fax:
E-mail:
knickle@egr.uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
The Engineering Academy of Southern New England is a NSF
Engineering Education Coalition. The Academy was established in 1994
and promotes reform in undergraduate engineering education
Outreach Program Title:
Entrepreneur
Awards Program
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Bahram
Nassersharif
Phone:
(401)
874-2186
Fax:
(401)
782-1066
E-mail:
bn@egr.uri.edu
/ BN@URI.EDU
Outreach Program Description:
Outreach Program Title:
Executive
Action
Website:
www.uri.edu/ajc/wpines
Outreach Program Director Name:
Thomas
Mitchell
Phone:
(401)
397-3302, ext. 6024
Fax:
(401)
397-3363
E-mail:
mitchell@uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
The Executive Action program provides team-building experiences for
members of organizations that want to improve their communication,
problem solving and teamwork skills
Outreach Program Impact Statement:
The program responds to the needs of organizations to develop the
values of teamwork and communication.
It responds to the need by many organizations to develop the
values of teamwork in their organization in an experiential way,
that is by using an action-learning model that involves all members
in a group problem-solving scenario.
Companies come back for several years to allow their staff to
improve their teamwork skills.
Since the program is voluntary and paid for by the
organization or firm, it is assumed there is value added or the
organizations would seek other training.
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Outreach Program Title:
Fiber
Optics Communication Laboratory
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Harish
Sunak
Phone:
(401)
874-5859
Fax:
(401)
782-6422
E-mail:
Outreach Program Description:
The FOCL was set up in 1985 to establish a state of the art
facility to do experimental work in the area of light wave
technology. Current areas include Fiber amplifiers; fiber lasers;
fiber based Bragg gratings; fiber optical communications
Outreach Program Title:
Forensic
Science Partnership
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Everet
Crisman / Dennis Hilliard
/ Jimmie Oxley
Phone:
(401)
874-5076
Fax:
(401)
874-4689
E-mail:
EEC@URI.EDU
Outreach Program Description:
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Outreach Program Title:
GAP
(Guarantee Admissions Programs)
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Harry
Knickle
Phone:
(401)
874-1000
Fax:
E-mail:
knickle@egr.uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
Outreach Program Title:
Gear
Conservation Engineering Working Group
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Kathy
Castro
Phone:
(401)
874-5063
Fax:
(401)
789-8930
E-mail:
Kcastro@uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
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Outreach Program Title:
High
Performance Computer Laboratory
Website:
www.ele.uri.edu/research/hpcl
Outreach Program Director Name:
Quing
(Ken) Yang
Phone:
(401)
874-2505/5880
Fax:
(401)
782-6422
E-mail:
qyang@ele.uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
The research center is devoted to designing and analyzing high
performance computers, memory systems, disk I/O, and data storage
systems
Outreach Program Impact Statement:
The new technology developed in this lab represent next generation
computer and data storage systems.
Outreach Program Title:
Hosting
Governmental Visitors
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Otto
Gregory
Phone:
(401)
874-5984
Fax:
(401)
874-4689
E-mail:
GREGORY@EGR.URI.EDU
Outreach Program Description:
Outreach Program Title:
Hosting
Industry Visitors
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Otto
Gregory
Phone:
(401)
874-5984
Fax:
(401)
874-4689
E-mail:
GREGORY@EGR.URI.EDU
Outreach Program Description:
Outreach Program Title:
Hosting
International Visitors
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Otto
Gregory
Phone:
(401)
874-5984
Fax:
(401)
874-4689
E-mail:
GREGORY@EGR.URI.EDU
Outreach Program Description:
Outreach Program Title:
Hosting
Professional Society Meetings
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Otto
Gregory
Phone:
(401)
874-5984
Fax:
(401)
874-4689
E-mail:
GREGORY@EGR.URI.EDU
Outreach Program Description:
Outreach Program Title:
Hosting
Student Technical Society Meetings
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Ray/Mercedes
Wright/Rivero
Phone:
(401)
874-2785/(401) 874-2271
Fax:
E-mail:
WRIGHTR@EGR.URI.EDU
/ RIVERO@EGR.URI.EDU
Outreach Program Description:
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Outreach Program Title:
Industry
Relations
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
Otto
Gregory
Phone:
(401)
874-5984
Fax:
(401)
874-4689
E-mail:
GREGORY@EGR.URI.EDU
Outreach Program Description:
Outreach Program Title:
Infrastructure
Research Laboratory
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
George
Tsiatas
Phone:
(401)
874-5117
Fax:
E-mail:
gt@uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
Elimination of Expansion Joints in Highway Bridges Fatigue Strength
of Previously Stressed Bridge Girders Prediction of Fatigue Life of
Highway Bridge Girders Durability of Concrete Repair Systems
Outreach Program Title:
Integrated
Circuit Center
Website:
Outreach Program Director Name:
James
Daly
Phone:
(401)
792-5844
Fax:
(401)
782-6422
E-mail:
daly@ele.uri.edu
Outreach Program Description:
Studies of novel integrated circuits, design methodologies and
testing/simulation procedures. The department maintains a network of
29 workstations used by the center for design, layout and simulation
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