Industry Engagement
ASAP seeks to fulfill the mission of NSF's I-UCRC program to generate "breakthrough research by enabling close and sustained engagement between industry innovators, world-class academic teams, and government agencies with significant benefits to all entities."
Benefits of Membership
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Access to faculty members with deep expertise in materials science, device physics and engineering, and circuit design from three different labs in Grainger College of Engineering.
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Existing infrastructure for basic and applied research at UIUC with high-quality synthesis, fabrication, characterization, modeling and simulation tools.
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High caliber graduate students from the U.S. and all over the world.
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Access to IP from research projects.
- Ability to leverage NSF $ for management resources and leverage further for additional grants with only 10% overhead for the IUCRC program as opposed to standard ~60%
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High return on investment—leverage one membership fee across projects and updates from all projects
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Excellent Open Innovation program – leverage outside experts and use ASAP as a platform to collaborate across different sectors of the industry (foundry, tool company, defense company, start-up, clients, etc.)
Member Organizations
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- IBM
- Intel Corporation
- LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Lab (MIT LL)
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TSMC)
- Raytheon Technologies
- Sandia