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2. HAS THE STC PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHED ITS GOALS?
Pages 12-20

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From page 12...
... Recently, NSF has refined the goals for the STC program as expressed in a memorandum from Neal Lane, NSF director, to Alice Rivlin, Office of Management and Budget director, dated September 30,1994. Briefly, these refined goals are .
From page 13...
... For the purposes of this report, the panel accepts the goals transmitted to OMB as the NSF's most current position. However, the panel believes that · Given that multidisciplinary research was not part of the original solicitation, it cannot be fairly used to judge the existing STC program.
From page 14...
... Similarly, the Center for Research in Cognitive Science addresses one of the most important and difficult subjects in all of science and is viewed as having made substantial contributions of very high quality. Reports on the Center on Synthesis, Growth, and Analysis of Electronic Materials characterize it as an excellent national resource for the fundamental study of the synthesis, growth, and analysis of electronic materials with strong and growing interdisciplinary interactions involving first rate faculty producing high-quality research.
From page 15...
... We believe that several centers, such as the Center for Particle Astrophysics and the Center for Discrete Mathematics, are predominantly in a single discipline. For example, the Center for Quantized Electronic Structures requires the efforts of materials scientists, physicists, and engineers coordinated in a center approach order to conduct the long-term research on materials synthesis and analysis that will lead to new types of ultrasmall devices that involve the quantum nature of electronic motion.
From page 16...
... Undergraduate and graduate education is easily coupled to the research endeavor, but that is not necessarily true of K-12 education. The panel found that all the centers have substantial involvement with undergraduate and graduate students.
From page 17...
... How Well Are STCs Performing Relative to the Goal of Knowledge Transfer and Exchange? A desirable aspect of the STCs is that they are involved in a two-way exchange of knowledge with other researchers, graduate students, businesses, and industry.
From page 18...
... The Center for Advanced Cement-Based Materials has an industrial-affiliates program that links the center to 17 industry members who have their own research and development operations; in addition, through a small-business partnership program, the center offers technology-transfer seminars, with approximately 50 persons in attendance from industries that do not have their own research units. Spinoff companies are an important consequence of knowledge transfer and exchange activities, and they go beyond patents and publications.
From page 19...
... Similarly, a successful center whose original importance and timeliness are derived from long-term research needs of a particular industry, still can find that its programs and the needs of industry drift apart over the course of the lifetime of the center. At least one center, which is universally deemed a technical success, is in the situation that the billion-dollar industry toward whose needs its work is directed exists essentially only outside the United States except for relatively small entrepreneurial firms in niche markets.
From page 20...
... 6. STC programs adequately include undergraduate and graduate students in their activities.


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