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SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION DISPLAY (SID)

TECHNICAL MEETING AND DINNER
Thursday, November 12, 2015 5:30 PM

We have an exciting start to the season with a talk by Dr. Craig Armiento, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Professor at UMass Lowell, Director of the Printed Electronics Research Collaborative (PERC), Co-Director for the Raytheon-UMass Lowell Research Institute (RURI) and Director for the Photonics, Electromagnetics and Nanoelectronics Center (CPEN). He will be presenting “Developing Printed Electronics for DoD Applications through University, Corporate, and Government Partnerships”.

Plus…

An Opportunity to tour the brand new Saab ETIC home of RURI and PERC at UMass Lowell

The brand-new state-of-the art facility focused on Additive Manufacturing and Printed Electronics was opened in January 2015. Industry and University collaborators can design a concept using a multi-physics computer simulation then create the design using 3D and 2D systems. With the design in-hand, walk down the hall and test the RF and microwave characteristics.  Soon, you will be able to integrate the design into operating radar and antenna systems on the campus.

The facility is built in order to develop new devices and subsystems providing electromagnetic, electronic and photonic functionality for the DoD; 3D and 2D printed antennas, radars, frequency selective surfaces, transistors, coplanar waveguides, metamaterials, remote-access RFIDs, and hybrid systems with ultra-thin chips and printed interconnects. 

WHERE
University of Massachusetts, Lowell Campus
Saab Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center, 40 University Drive, Lowell, MA 01854

For directions, we suggest using a GPS. Once you reach University Avenue, it is easier to navigate visually. You will park in the Cumnock lot which is located across the street from the Saab building. On one side of the street is Southwick Hall which is a yellow brick building and adjacent to Southwick Hall on University Avenue is Cumnock Hall, a grey stone building. Between the two buildings is a driveway entrance to the attended parking lot. The guard house is grey.

Once you have parked, the SAAB Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center is the large grey/red stone and glass building across the street from the parking lot. For a visual reference, the website, www.uml.edu/PERC/

For further directions, a link to the campus map can be downloaded at http://www.uml.edu/docs/campus_map_8%201%2014_final_tcm18-110645.pdf

PRESENTATION
Developing Printed Electronics for DoD Applications through University/Corporate/Government Partnerships

The University of Massachusetts Lowell has established a center for development of Printed Electronics (PE) with a focus on RF/microwave applications. This research effort will be done in conjunction with corporate and government partners. This talk will discuss the Raytheon-U Mass Lowell Research Institute (RURI) and will describe work on printed antennas and frequency selective surfaces. The Printed Electronics Research Collaborative (PERC), which is partially supported by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, will establish a team of companies focused on developing the PE supply chain with a focus on the defense cluster in the region.

GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Craig Armiento
Craig Armiento is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. In addition to directing Printed Electronics Research Collaborative (PERC), he is also Director of the Center for Photonics, Electromagnetics and Nanoelectronics (PEN). He is a founder and Co-Director of the Raytheon-UMass Lowell Research Institute (RURI). Prof. Armiento served as ECE Department Chair from 2005-2011. Prof. Armiento’s current research interests are printed electronics and antennas, photonic devices, advanced packaging, Flex-Hybrid integration and RFIDs. Prof. Armiento teaches courses in Electronics, Solid State Devices and Fiber Optic Communications.

Prior to coming to UMass Lowell in 2003, Prof. Armiento had over twenty years of industrial R&D experience. He led research projects at GTE Laboratories (now Verizon) on projects including Fiber-to-the-Home (now FiOS), optoelectronic hybrid integration, III-V device fabrication and GaAs ICs. He also was Director of Optical Networking at Lightchip Optical Networks Inc. and was a researcher at M.I.T. Lincoln laboratory. Prof. Armiento has over 100 publications and presentations and 16 U.S. patents. He received his Ph.D., E.E. and S.M. degrees in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T and a B.S.E.E from Manhattan College.

 WHEN

November 12^th, 2015

5:30pm – 6:00pm             Meet and Greet
6:00pm – 6:45pm             Dinner
6:45pm – 7:45pm             Presentation by Dr. Craig Armiento
7:45pm – 8:30pm             Tour of UMass Lowell RURI

FEES
Non-Members  $15.00
Members            $10.00
Student Rate     $5.00