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4 Outcomes and Metrics
Pages 39-43

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... website, "The goal of the ERC Program is to integrate engineering research and education with technological innovation to transform national prosperity, health, and security."1 The committee resonates with this existing goal and suggests that the toplevel goal of future convergent engineering research centers (CERCs) should be to solve critical societal problems with engineering research and to advance fundamental knowledge on how to deliver those solutions to society.
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... RECOMMENDATION 4-1: A key objective of the convergent engineering research centers should be capacity-building through student training and development, at both the graduate and undergraduate level, and direct engagement with industry. Metrics that might be used to measure student outcomes can include tracking of student placement in industry, university, government, or nonprofit positions and contributions made in those positions, compared with a non-CERC control student population.
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... FINDING 4-2: The development and dissemination of engineering and intellectual work products with durable value accelerates innovation and scientific progress. RECOMMENDATION 4-2: Future convergent engineering research centers should be encouraged to produce broadly accessible engineering prototypes, tools, data repositories, platforms, and enabling technologies that foster broad scientific, engineering, and manufacturing innovation.
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... 6  SRI International, 2004, The Economic Impact on Georgia of Georgia Tech's Packaging Research Center, Arlington, Va. 7  SRI International, 2008, National and Regional Economic Impacts of Engineering Research Centers: A Pilot Study.
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... OPPORTUNITIES FOR CENTERS TO ENHANCE THE DELIVERY OF SOCIETAL VALUE While the considerable achievements of the ERC program have been recently documented,10 the committee believes that a qualitative improvement in the delivery of societal value is possible in future centers through dissemination and systematic use of team-research and value-creation best practices among all center personnel (Boxes 2.4 and 2.5, respectively)
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