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MEMS in Homeland Security, Defense, and Aerospace Applications

*Schedule of Events, Monday March 29, 2004

8:00 - 9:00 ~ Registration and Continental Breakfast ~
*Session Chair, Laurie Locascio

9:00 - 9:40 Invited Speaker Chris Foster, MD Department of Business and
Economic Development

9:40 - 10:20 Invited Speaker John Butler, National Institute of Standards and
Technology

10:20 - 10:35 ~ Break ~

10:35 - 10:55 04-01. Applications of MEMS in Homeland Security: Detection
Technologies for Weapons of Mass Destruction David J. Nagel

10:55 - 11:20 04-16. Microfluidic Focusing Methods: Prospects for HighSensitivity Detection and Separation of Biological and Chemical
Warfare Agents David Ross

11:20 - 11:45 04-15. uCantilever Gas Sensors with Custom Drive Electronics for
Testing & Handheld Applications Stanley Stepnowski, Eric Houser,
R. Andrew McGill

11:45 - 12:10 04-09. MEPS – MEMS Electrochemical Power Supplies: Low-Cost
Integrated Power for Homeland Security and Defense Microsystems
Charles Lakeman, Patrick Fleig, and Jenniffer DeGreeff

12:10 - 1:20 ~ Lunch ~
*Session Chair, Ron Polcawich

1:20 - 2:00 Invited Speaker R. Andrew McGill, Naval Research Laboratory
2:00 - 2:25 04-12. In situ Measurements of Temperature and Species
Concentration in a Microscale Combustion Reactor Scott Heatwole,
Christopher Cadou, and Steven Buckley

2:25 - 2:50 04-02. The MEMS Flux Concentrator: A device for minimizing the
effect of 1/f noise A.S. Edelstein, 1*Jeff Pulskamp, 1 Michael Pedersen, 2 and William Bernard 2

2:50 - 3:00 ~ Break ~

3:00 - 3:25 04-19. 3d Silicon MEMS Fabrication Using Gray-Scale Lithography
and Deep Reactive Ion Etching C.M. Waits, B. Morgan, and R.
Ghodssi

3:25 - 3:50 04-17. Electrostatically Actuated Resonant Microcantilever in
CMOS Technology for Gas Sensor Applications Ioana Voiculescu,
Mona Zaghoul, R. Andrew McGill, Eric Houser, Stanley Stepnowski, Evgueni
Sokolovski, and Gary Fedder
*Poster Chair, Samara Firebaugh

3:50 - 7:00 ~ Poster Session and Evening Reception ~ Tuesday March 30, 2004
*Session Chair, Robert Osiander

8:30 - 9:15 Invited Speaker Thomas George, Jet PropulsionLaboratory

9:15 - 9:40 04-04. MEMS-based Magnetometer Manufactured in 0.35um SiGE
BiCOMOS Process Eli Richards and Dennis Wickenden

9:40 - 10:10 04-07. Wireless Communications Systems for MEMS Sensor Arrays
Matthew Bevan, Wolfger Schneider, and Kenneth Wright

10:10 - 10:35 04-14. Design and Packaging Considerations for a
Microelectromechanical Satellite Thermal Control Device Matthew
A. Beasley and Samara L. Firebaugh

10:35 - 10:50 ~ Break ~

10:50 - 11:15 04-10. Fuel- Air Mixing Challenges in Micro-Power Systems Kiran
Dellimore and Christopher Cadou

11:15 - 11:40 04-20. Development of MEMS-based Micronozzles for Gas
Separation Sheng Li, Carl B. Friedhoff, Robert M. Young, and Reza
Ghodssi

11:40 - 12:05 04-06. Novel MEMS Stirling Cooler Keith Rebello, Matthew Moran,
Danielle Wesolek, Bruk Berhane, and Ann Garrison Darrin

12:05 - 1:15 ~ Lunch ~
*Session Chair, Brian Jamieson

1:15 - 2:00 Invited Speaker Kensall Wise, University of Michigan

2:00 - 2:25 04-03. Fabrication of MEMS-Based Microshutter Arrays for Optical
Transmission Selection Bernard Lynch, David Franz, R.G. Hu, M.D.
Jhabvala, C.A. Kotecki, M.J. Li, H. Oh, and Y. Zheng

2:25 - 2:35 ~ Break ~

2:35 - 2:40 ~ Award Best Poster ~

2:40 - 3:05 04-08. A Micro- Machined Flat Plasma Spectrometer (FlaPS)
Danielle Wesolek, John L. Champion, Fred A. Herrero, Robert Osiander,
Roy L. Champion, and Ann Darrin

3:05 - 3:30 04-11. Effect of Structural Heat Conduction on Flame Propagation
and Power Density in Micro Combusters Timothy Leach, Christopher
Cadou, and Gregory Jackson

*Schedule may be changed based on the discretion of the committee.
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