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- Envision a thermonuclear power plant that does not produce radioactive waste.
- Consider a new technology that will manufacture microelectronic chips that will be able to process 12 times more information than those currently available.
- How can we develop diesel engines that are more environmentally friendly?
- Did you ever wonder how the earth's magnetic field is generated?
- These ideas are being explored at the University of Maryland's Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics (IREAP).
- Experimental and theoretical research and computer simulation are pursued in IREAP by 70 research scientists.
- Faculty members affiliated with IREAP are drawn from a variety of disciplines including the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Physical
Science and Technology (IPST), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Department of Physics.
- The research activity is reinforced and broadened by the presence of some 20 visiting scientists and by collaboration with other teaching faculty who are affiliate members of IREAP.
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U.S. News and World Report
America's Best Graduate Schools
-- Chaos (Nonlinear Dynamics) = #1
-- Engineering = #17 (2007)
---- Aerospace engineering - #8
---- Computer Engineering - #17
---- Electrical Engineering - #14
---- Mechanical Engineering - #20
---- Civil Engineering - #21
---- Materials Engineering - #32
-- Physics = #13 (2006)
---- Plasma Physics = #2
U.S. News and World Report - Undergraduate Rankings - 2007
-- Clark School of Engineering - #25
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- Approximately 65 graduate students are presently working on their research dissertation projects with members of the IREAP faculty. In 2007, 10 graduate students received their Ph.D. degrees and 1 received his Masters of Science degree. In 2006, the numbers were 14 Ph.D.'s and 6 Masters; in 2005, the numbers were 15 Ph.D.'s and 4 Masters; in 2004, 14 Ph.D.'s and 6 Masters.
- Fellows in IREAP: American Association for the Advancement of Science - 2; American Ceramics Society - 1; American Physical Society - 22; American Vacuum Society - 2; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - 10; Indian Academy of Sciences - 1; Institute of Electrical and Telecommunications Engineers, India - 1; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry - 1; Optical Society of America - 4; Photonics Society of Chinese-Americans - 1.
- Other Awards: Lifetime National Associate of the National Academies - 1; Senior Member of the IEEE - 1.
- Research programs conducted by the Institute are focused on basic and applied research involving electrically-charged gases (plasmas) and charged particle beams (electron and ion beams), ion beam microfabrication, materials processing, nonlinear dynamics (chaos), laser-matter interaction, nanoscience, and nanotechnology.
- Active research grants and contracts are in excess of $10 million.
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