The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Johns Hopkins University have been selected to take part in a multimillion-dollar National Science Foundation research center located at Princeton University.
Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students from these universities will develop supersensitive and compact sensor devices for use in medicine, environmental monitoring and the military.
The Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment research center aims to create sensors with better sensitivity, portability and ease of use at a fraction of the current cost. Environmental air quality is one projected use for these sensors, as well as chemical and biological hazard alerts.
Aside from the center?s research aspect, an education outreach mission will be established to train a new generation of American engineers.
With the center?s funding projected to exceed $40 million over 10 years, Anthony Johnson, the leader of this research at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, calls it “an exciting day for engineering research in the Baltimore-Washington region.”
