Subject: NSF Press Release - Partnerships - Asia
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Title       : FIVE NSF CENTERS FORM PARTNERSHIPS
              WITH PACIFIC RIM INSTITUTIONS
NSF Contact : OLPA
Type        : Press Release
Date        : October 31, 1991

 

 
Cheryl Dybas                                            IMMEDIATE
(202) 357-9498                                   October 31, 1991
                                                     NSF PR 91-95
 
               FIVE NSF CENTERS FORM PARTNERSHIPS
                  WITH PACIFIC RIM INSTITUTIONS
 
     Five research centers funded by the National Science
 
Foundation (NSF) have established Partnerships for Science and
Engineering with education and research institutions in Southeast
Asia.  The purpose of these partnerships is to help accelerate
economic and technological development by forging strong new
bonds between the participating institutions and technology-based
industries in their home countries.  Each of the NSF centers will
receive a two-year award in the amount of $100,000 from the
Agency for International Development (AID) to implement a joint
program of research, education, and information exchange in
specific technical areas.
     The five Partnerships and their areas of concentration are:
     1) the Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Data Storage
Systems at Carnegie Mellon University with the Magnetic
Technology Centre of the National University of Singapore, in the
area of data storage technology;
     2) the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center
(I/UCRC) for Hazardous Substance Management at the New Jersey
Institute of Technology with the University of Indonesia in
Jakarta, in the area of hazardous waste management;
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     3) the I/UCRC for Ceramic Research at Rutgers University
with the Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia,
in the area of advanced ceramics;
 
     4) the I/UCRC for Parallel, Distributed, and Intelligent
Systems of the University of Pittsburgh with the Department of
Mathematics of the University of Malaysia and the Institute of
Systems Science of the National University of Singapore, focusing
on multimedia, multilingual knowledge-based engineering; and
 
     5) the I/UCRC for Design of the Analog-Digital Integrated
Circuits at the Washington State University with the Universiti
Teknologi Malaysia, in electronics.
 
     The Partnerships for Science and Engineering are formed
under a U.S. State Department initiative, the Asian Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC) Partnership for Education, which is
being implemented and administered by AID.  These partnerships
are aimed at strengthening the linkages between academic and
industrial sectors in the participating countries.
 
     AID selected NSF's ERC and I/UCRC programs to be the U.S.
partners in this program because of their success in establishing
productive ties between industry and academia, building on the
strong scientific and engineering skills and knowledge available
at academic institutions.
 
     APEC is comprised of Australia, Brunel, Canada, Indonesia,
Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, the Republic of
Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States.  The
organization provides a forum for multilateral dialogue on
matters affecting the Pacific Basin.  The APEC Partnership for
Education focuses on contributing to the sustained development of
APEC members through human resource development.  Several non-
APEC South Pacific nations (Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Niue,
Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and
Western Samoa) are also included.
 
     The APEC partnership for Education contains three elements:
(1) educational partnerships between U.S. and other APEC and
South Pacific institutions; (2) outreach for students in the
U.S.; and (3) training for private sector participants in
university/industry collaborations.  The NSF component is
expected to develop a greater institutional capacity, on the part
of the participating institutions in both countries, to
contribute skills and services to industry through activities
such as training, internships, personnel, student exchanges, and
 
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joint research.  Both partners are expected to establish
relationships and develop services to support the local business
community.  It is anticipated that, eventually, the Partnerships
will encourage linkages between businesses in Southeast Asia and
the United States.
 
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     The National Science Foundation is an independent agency of
the Federal Government established in 1950 to promote and advance
scientific progress in the United States.  NSF accomplishes its
mission primarily by competitively awarding grants to educational
institutions for research and education in the sciences,
mathematics, and engineering.
 
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