AVS 46th International Symposium
    Manufacturing Science and Technology Group Tuesday Sessions
       Session MS-TuM

Invited Paper MS-TuM7
Industrial-Academic-Government Partnerships; A Successful Example

Tuesday, October 26, 1999, 10:20 am, Room 611

Session: New Manufacturing Research Paradigms
Presenter: J.B. Bindell, Cirent Semiconductor (Lucent Technologies)
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Semiconductor manufacturers have always had a close relationship to Universities, using them for purposes ranging from professional training to contract research and development. These relationships have also been synergistic, with the Universities strongly benefiting from in depth relationships with high technology firms. These reverse benefits have also been multifaceted, with funding, training delivery opportunities and contact with well known industrial scientists yielding many productive interactions. When Lucent Technologies located its leading edge manufacturing facility in Orlando, Florida, and then moved a major Bell Labs R&D division to the same facility, a number of interactions were suddenly spawned. Three distinct players were involved. These were Lucent, which found itself in need of strong University support, the University of Central Florida (UCF) and the University of South Florida (USF), both relatively close neighbors, and the state of Florida itself which had designated an extended area between Orlando and Tampa as the "Florida High Tech Corridor". The corridor's establishment was an important part of a desire to make this region a magnet for additional semiconductor manufacturers and for the economic growth that would surely follow. This three-way partnership between industry, government and education has led to a new paradigm for such interactions in which the boundary between our industrial laboratory and those of the Universities has become unclear. In fact, in the disciplines where Lucent has needed University support, these partnerships have created resources which are well on their way to national prominence. This presentation will center on the University programs and facilities that have developed from this partnership as well as on the issues of industrial involvement in the area of workforce development.