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Project Summary
23rd May 2002

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Projects in the order of explanations in this document
BLUE	STATUS E	
RED	STATUS D	
PURPLE	STATUS B	
GREEN	STATUS A	

IR FT PROJECTS
P001/IR -Optical Properties of Nanoscale Arrays
P003/IR -Global Environmental Change: Biomineral Proxies of Ocean Chemistry and 	 	   Climate
P004/IR -Natural Ventilation, Solar Heating and Integrated Low-Energy Building Design 	    (funded by BP)
P009/IR -The Silent Aircraft Initiative
P016/IR -Rhodococcus as Biological Catalysts for Chiral Synthesis and Novel 	   	  	    Pharmaceuticals
P019/IR -A Preparatory Study of a New Ultra-Light Metallic Sheet Material
P028/IR -Responsive Polymer Research Enterprise
P036/IR -Quantum Information Theory and Technology
P038/IR -Ultimate Polymer: Carbon Nanotube Enabled Materials
P039/IR -Digital multiscale 3D-characterisation of carbonate rocks: Canning Basin 	   	   Western Australia

P043/IR -Building a Technology Transfer Infrastructure for CMI and Extending it as a 	 	        Model for UK Universities.
P044/IR -The Sentient Vehicle:  Mobility and the Environment
P049/IR -Fundamental Studies of Digital Mechatronics and its Potential Applications
P054/IR -Interdisciplinary Research Cluster (IRC) in Biomaterials and Tissue 	 	 	    Engineering
P055/IR -Ceramic Encapsulation of Radioactive Waste Materials
P059/IR -MEMS Research Proposal: materials design and processing for MMAs
P061/IR -Magnoelectronic devices
P070/IR -Computational Design and Experimental Selection of Novel Peptide 	  	 	    Synthetasses
P071/IR -Sustainable Chemical Processes in Environmentally Friendly Media
P075/IR -Development of Microfabricated Stem Cell Bioreactors and Real Time Assays
P082/IR -Low Energy Building Design
P086/IR –Teleworking and the Latent Functions of Work
P089/IR -Possible Approaches for Coformulating Enzymes and Bleaches in Aqueous 	  	   Liquid Detergent Compositions.
P091/IR -Determination of the Structure of Amyloid Fibrils by Solid State NMR 	      	  	   Techniques
P092/IR -Development of Speech Processing Technology for Computer Assisted 	  		   Language Learning
P093/IR -Communication and Synchronisation in Future Embedded System Architectures.
P094/IR -The Security of Crypto APIs.

CPE PROJECTS
P045/IR CPE -Promoting Innovation and Productivity in Electricity Markets
P051/IR CPE -New Firm Growth in New Industries
P058/IR CPE -The Geography of Innovation: Creating Places for Enterprise Development
P065/IR CPE -The Globalising Behaviour of UK Firms in a Comparative Context
P067/IR CPE -International Innovation Benchmarking
P074/IR CPE -Understanding the Development and Commercialisation of Digital 	    	  	            Technologies

PP PROJECTS
P002/PP -Windows on Science
P006/PP -A UK Masters Course in Advanced Chemical Engineering Practise
P021b/PP-A New MPhil Course in Environmental Engineering and Sustainable 	 	 	     Development at CU
P024b/PP-Development of a TPP-type Programme for Cambridge University (Phase II)
P025/PP -Managing Change and Innovations in Work and Organisations
P052/PP -Building a Biomedical Business: Effectively translating biomedical science and 	     engineering into business
P053/PP -Development of a BioSciences Programme for Cambridge University
P057/PP -Developing & Managing a Successful Technology and Product Strategy: 	 	    Designing a Distance Offering
P076/UE -Transferring Successful Design Strategies Across Sectors
P077/PP –MIT Support of the Development of a CU Version of the MIT Technology 	                        	     Policy Program

UE PROJECTS
P023/UE -Material and Process Selection Short Course
P030b/UE -Accelerated Studio
P060/UE -MEMS Undergraduate Education: materials design and processing for MMAs
P062/UE -Infrastructure survey and needs specification for CMI remote collaboration and 	     educational ICT initiatives
P063/UE -Analysis and Evaluation of Remote Collaboration Technologies in the Design 	        	     Studio and Elsewhere
P064/UE -OKI: Development and evaluation of a generic learning management system
P069/UE -CMI Connections
P083/UE –Development of Mathematics Project Course Material (CATAM)
P084/UE –Developing Institutionally Based Digital Archives in the UK (D-SPACE)
P085/UE –Learning and Teaching in English: Online Multi Media Approaches 
P088/UE –Cambridge MIT Games to Teach Module Development for Classroom Use and 	      Testing.
P095/UE –Teaching Hardware / Software Codesign.

IR FT PROJECTS

P001/IR FT- Optical Properties of Nanoscale Arrays
MIT: Professor K.A. Nelson, Chemistry
CU: Professor J. Scott, Earth Sciences 	£758K, 3 years	
E	
Novel memory devices for low cost applications (e.g. credit cards) are not likely to be based on traditional Si-technology but to exploit new ferroelectric materials.  Such materials can easily be produced as thin films or tapes at extremely low cost.  Their storage density is – under laboratory conditions – extremely high while their read/write timescale is relatively slow.  This project focuses on ways to increase the speed of the information transfer and novel technologies to produce ferroelectric thin films.  In the second step it is planned to increase the storage capacity significantly.

E	
P003/IR FT- Global Environmental Change: Biomineral Proxies of Ocean Chemistry and Climate
MIT: E Boyle, Earth Sciences
CU: H Elderfield, Earth Sciences	£324K, 3 years	
Reduction of greenhouse gases and the possible implementation of the Kyoto protocol depend crucially on the trapping of CO2 by the oceans.  In this project the question of the possible seeding of parts of the oceans (eg: the Atlantic Ocean) by fine grained dust of silicon or various oxide materials.  The key for such technologies is to identify exactly the mechanism by which greenhouse gases are absorbed.  The most probable way is by growth of the microscopic foram organisms.  The idea is that the growth of forams can be enhanced by appropriate ‘fertilizers’.  

This research project is to identify their growth behaviour in the past geological history and correlate these data with the chemical composition of the oceans at the same geological time.

P004/IR FT– Natural Ventilation, Solar Heating and Integrated Low-Energy Building Design (funded by BP)
MIT: L Glicksmann, Architecture Mechanical Engineering
CU: A Woods, BP Institute, Earth Sciences	£1698K, 5 years
BP funding	
E	
This project brings together experts involved in architectural design, building engineering, natural ventilation processes and building environmental safety.  Through a combination of complementary fundamental research and a joint design project for a new building, the aim is to build up the foundations of this key emerging discipline in building design.  The objectives of the project are to develop technologies to (a) reduce energy costs of maintaining a comfortable environment with buildings through use of solar power, natural ventilation processes and improved ventilation materials; (b) improve air quality within buildings, to mitigate against sick building syndrome; and (c) improve emergency building ventilation in case of discharge of hazardous gases or fires.  These technologies will be communicated to architectural and building engineering communities.

P009/IR FT- The Silent Aircraft Initiative
MIT: A Epstein, E Greitzer, Aeronautics& Astronautics
CU: A P Dowling, Engineering	£115K, 1 year	
E	
This project aims to develop a compelling statement of the need for a ‘Silent Aircraft’, based on the societal costs of aircraft noise.  If successful, the research will result in (an application for) a multi-disciplinary research project, spanning from novel developments in engineering science through design, manufacturing, economics and policy. The Silent Aircraft Initiative is to be used as a basis for common courses between the University of Cambridge and MIT, which expose students to the breadth of technology-led business – from the conception of new ideas through design to implementation and operation.

P016/IR FT- Rhodococcus as Biological Catalysts for Chiral Synthesis and Novel Pharmaceuticals
MIT: Philip A. Lessard, A J Sinsky, Biology
CU: J Archer, Genetics	£1101K, 5 years	
E	
This project aims to develop the knowledge base required to operate highly efficient rhodococcal cell factories to manufacture chiral precursors and pharmaceuticals.  The collaborators will combine state-of-the-art genetic approaches, genomics, DNA microarrays and directed evolution to investigate metabolic engineering of Rhodococcus as production platforms for (a) cis-amino indanol, a precursor to the AIDS drug Crixivan and (b) novel non-ribosomal peptide antibiotics.  The metabolic pathways involved in these will be investigated, and production bottlenecks circumvented using genetic engineering and directed protein evolution approaches.  This will generate a knowledge base of the quantitative physiology of the rhodococcal cell allowing the project to address three issues of generic importance:

•	those aspects of cell function that affect productivity or influence desired properties of biological products
•	cell function and properties that influence the downstream processing of biological products
•	changes in cell function in response to environmental change, including exposure to normal and abnormal substrates in relevant systems.

P019IR FT- A Preparatory Study of a New Ultra-Light Metallic Sheet Material

MIT: T Wierzbicki, Ocean Engineering
CU: T W Clyne, Materials Sciences	£194K, 1 year	
E	
Ultra-light materials are crucial for advances in building lighter aircraft, cars etc.  In particular the car industry sees a trend to build lighter cars with active safety features (e.g. Volvo).  This project focuses on novel ultra-light sheet materials with sandwich structures with stiff outer layers held apart by a low density core.  The twelve month study is aimed at answering questions of technical optimisation and industrial exploitation.

P028//IR FT- Responsive Polymer Research Enterprise
MIT: T A Hatton, Chemical Engineering
CU: N Slater, Chemical Engineering	£773K, 3 years	
E	
It is proposed to establish a joint research enterprise within the CMI to develop a sound basis for the design, synthesis, characterisation, implementation and commercialisation of responsive polymer systems.  Targeted applications areas for these polymers include the fine control of chemical, biochemical and biomedical processes, to enhance their productivity and competitiveness.

P036/IR FT- Quantum Information Theory and Technology
MIT: S Lloyd, Mechanical engineering
CU: P Landshoff, DAMPT	£2440K, 3 years	
E	
Quantum computers are devices that store and process information at the atomic scale.  Researchers at MIT and CU will collaborate to design, build, devise algorithms for and operate prototype quantum computers.  We will work with industrial partners to identify potentially commercialisable devices and processes.  CMI will devise courses and distance learning materials to instruct students at all levels in quantum information processing.

P038/IR FT- Ultimate Polymer: Carbon Nanotube Enabled Materials
MIT: M C Boyce, Mechanical Engineering
CU: Derek Fray, Materials Science	£1097K, 3 years	
E	
This project will bring together expertise from MIT in nanocomposite development and that from Cambridge in carbon nanotube synthesis and processing, to generate a  new class of materials that will enable a wide variety of applications from superstrong cables to chip coolers.
The main objectives of this project are to develop:
•	A single wall nanotube synthesis route that is suitable for industrial scale-up by Thomas Swan Ltd.
•	Processing routes that generate “Ultimate Polymer” components from single wall nanotubes (SWNTs) and blends, suitable for commercialisation by a materials development company.
Carbon nanotube composites and an understanding of the key structure-property relationships that yield optimal properties.

P039/IR FT- Digital multiscale 3D-characterisation of carbonate rocks: Canning Basin Western Australia
MIT: J P Grotzinger, Earth Sciences
CU: J A D Dickson, Earth Sciences	£463K, 3 years	
D	
Newly developed digital techniques will be used to quantify 3D carbonate fabrics   
from microscopic, through outcrop, to platform geometry scales. These data will be
integrated to understand how small-scale processes of carbonate production influence   
platform-scale geometries.

P043/IR FT- Building a Technology Transfer Infrastructure for CMI and Extending it as a Model for UK Universities.
MIT: Lita Nelson, Technology Licensing Office
CU: David Secher, Research Services Division	£179K, 1 year	
E	

Transfer of technology transfer best practice to CMI, and research into new methodology.  This transfer will take advantage of the developed U.S. infrastructure, using experience from MIT to help diffuse knowledge to Cambridge and other UK universities.  The geographical focus of the activity will be Cambridge. 

P44/IR FT- The Sentient Vehicle:  Mobility and the Environment
 MIT: John Hayward, Engineering
CU: Nick Collings, Mechanical Engineering	£295K, 1 year	
E	

Intelligent Management of Traffic and Associated Emissions, through an integration of leading-edge sensors, communications, large data set handling, vehicle emissions modelling, and traffic flow simulation technologies.

E	
P049/IR/NCN/UE – Fundamental Studies of Digital Mechatronics and its Applications
MIT: Prof. Stevn Dubowsky, Mechanical Engineering
CU:   Prof. Sergio Pellegrino, Engineering	£625K, 3 years	

The project will investigate a new concept in mechanism design, digital mechatronics, which has the potential to significantly impact a wide variety of systems and devices, ranging from space systems to commercial products such as medical devices, manufacturing systems, toys and telecommunications.  Inexpensive digital mechatronic devices achieve reliable, precise movements by actuating between discrete stable mechanical configurations using embedded muscle-like actuators.  The program will include regular meetings of MIT and CU teams, as well as longer-term exchanges of researchers for periods of up to three months.

P054/IR FT- Interdisciplinary Research Cluster (IRC) in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
MIT: Prof. L Gibson, Materials Science  Engineering
CU: Prof. W Bonfield, Materials Science	£1995K, 3 years	
E	
This project is for an Interdisciplinary Research Cluster (IRC) in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering. This will entail multidisciplinary research to innovate second-generation biomaterials as bone substitutes and development of tissue engineering, specifically for bone as a generic technology.
The key objectives are:
Innovation of novel bone implant materials, tissue scaffolds and functional tissue engineered artefacts, to translate these materials and artefacts from a laboratory concept to clinical application, to facilitate technology transfer through new start-up or existing UK companies

IP rights are an essential platform for the success of this venture, so it is intended that an internal patent portfolio will be established in the first year along with an Industrial Associates Club (IAC), so further industrial funding will be sought in future years as a consequence of its establishment.
P055/IR FT- Ceramic encapsulation of radioactive waste materials
Prof. Linn W. Hobbs, Materials science Engineering
Dr Martin T. Dove, Earth Sciences	£740K, 3 years	
E	

Collaborative integrated project to understand the nature of radiation damage in crystalline ceramic materials aimed at developing and assessing ceramic encapsulation technologies for long term storage of radio active waste.

P059/IR FT- MEMS Research Proposal: materials design and processing for MMAs
MIT: M A Schmidt, S M Spearing, Microsystems Technology Laboratories  Aeronautics& Astronautics
CU: JA Williams, NA Fleck, WI Milner, DF Moore, Eng.	£757K, 3 years	
E	

To develop future generations of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) by the processing of a new type of MEMS material , Diamond Like Carbon, and by originating the appropriate design and test methods.

E	
P061/IR FT– Magnoelectronic devices
MIT: Caroline Ross, Materials Science and Engineering
CU: Anthony Bland, Cavendish Laboratory	£737K, 3 years	

New magnoelectronic devices will be developed using com-lementary expertise at MIT and CU.  These represent a new class of device which offers greater functionality than standard microelectronic devices.  The project will involve studies of the fundamentals of such devices, fabrication of prototypes, training of students, and liaison with companies that may commercialise the devices.

P070/IR – Computational Design and Experimental Selection of Novel Peptide Synthetasses
A	
MIT: Prof. Amy Keating, Biology
CU: Dr Florian Hollfelder, Biochemistry Department	£514K, 3 years	
Aims to develop strategies for the evolution of novel functional proteins that have the potential to synthesize peptide-based drug analogues in a biomimetic fashion.  This effort is guided by rational computer aided design of key protein-protein recognition features (based on structural analysis), by mechanistic enzymology and by in vitro selection and evolution experiments.

B	
P071/IR – Sustainable Chemical Processes in Environmentally Friendly Media
MIT: Prof.s R.L. Danheiser (Chemistry) and J.W. Tester (Chemical Engineering)
CU: Prof. A.B. Holmes, Chemistry.	£443K, 3 years	
Aims to bring together three research groups in an interdisciplinary collaboration supporting three graduate students working for three years to develop potentially commercial chemical processes in environmentally friendly reaction media such as supercritical carbon dioxide.

B	
P075/IR – Development of Microfabricated Stem Cell Bioreactors and Real Time Assays
MIT: Prof.s H. Lodish (Biology) and L. Griffith (Biological Engineering)
CU: Prof. A. Green, Head of Haematology Dept.)	£556K, 4 years	

This collaborative project aims to develop a robust protocol and bioreactor to continuously expand human hematopoietic stem cells in culture, with the aim of using these cells for bone marrow transplantation and other cell therapies, and for gene therapy for genetic diseases affecting hematopoietic cells such as sickle cell anaemia, thalassimia, and immune system disorders.

B	
P082/IR – Low Energy Building Design

MIT: Prof. L. Glicksman, Architecture and Mechanical Eng.
CU: Prof. A. Woods, BP Institute, and Dr K. Steemers, Architecture	£300K, 3 years	
In developing low energy buildings, there is a need to analyse the energy demand of a building, in terms of both heat and electricity, and to evaluate the potential for different renewable energy sources to supply this demand.  This project will explore the fundamental controls on heat and mass flow in buildings using renewable energy sources, through a combination of theoretical and experimental modelling.  Much emphasis will be given to the crucial effects of diurnal and seasonal fluctuations in a buildings environment and the implications for control of the energy supply system.  The research will provide much improved constraints for the complex engineering problem of matching highly variable energy supply (associated with renewable sources) with energy usage.  Much of the focus of the research project will be in evaluating different design options for large low-energy corporate buildings.  The research team will work very closely with the design team for the European headquarters of BP in Aberdeen, which is presently under design, and which has provided this fabulous opportunity to combine basic research with real engineering practice and building design.

P086/IR –Teleworking and the Latent Functions of Work
MIT: 
CU: Dr Brendan Burchell, Social & Political Science	£41K, 8 Months	
A	

This project will review the literature on Teleworking, focusing on its individual, organisational and societal implications.  The review will be discussed at an end of project workshop.  New theoretical approaches and proposals for further research will also be presented.

P089/IR –Possible Approaches for Coformulating Enzymes and Bleaches in Aqueous 	 	     Liquid Detergent Compositions.
MIT: Professor A. Hatton, Chemical Engineering
CU: Professor Nigel Slater, Chemical Engineering	£350K, 2 years	
A	

Proposes to encapsulate enzymes and isolate them from bleach using polymeric vesicles preventing enzyme denuteration.  Due to lipophilic nature of the polymeric membrane, the amphiphilic bleach activator will be solubilized in the bilayers, protected from hydrolysis.  Polymers are therefore sensitive to specific triggers.

P091/IR –Determination of the Structure of Amyloid Fibrils by Solid State NMR 	           	  	    Techniques.
MIT: professor Robert Griffin, Magnet Lab
CU: Professor Christopher Dobson, Chemical Lab	£770K, 3 years	
A	

This project aims to determine the high-resolution structure of amyloid fibrils comprised of short peptide sequences by solid state NMR, and to employ this knowledge to design novel biomimetic nanostructures.

P092/IR –Development of Speech Processing Technology for Computer Assisted 	  	     Language Learning.
MIT: Drs James Glass, Stephanie Seneff, Computer Science Lab  
CU: Professor Steve Young, Engineering	£891K, 4 years	
A	

Aims to develop a language learning system with four major components: a) an intelligent agent capable of maintaining an interactive dialogue with a student in a target language, b) a second intelligent agent capable of translating within the topic domain between the students native language and the target language, c) and assessment component, and d) a set of tools which allow second language teachers to author specific dialogues and scenarios.  

Revised proposal expected following PD meeting with PI.

P093/IR–Communication & Synchronisation in Future Embedded System Architectures. 
MIT: Professor Krste Asanovic, EECS
CU: Professor Simon Moore, Computer Lab 	£726K, 3 years	
A	

Proposes to develop new communication and synchronisation mechanisms as the basis for future embedded computer architectures that are power efficient, I/O-centric, and scalable to thousands of processors and millions of concurrent tasks for pervasive computing applications.

P094/IR –The Security of Crypto APIs
MIT: Professor Ronald Rivest, EECS 
CU: Professor Ross Anderson, Computer Lab 	£193K, 3 years	
A	

Investigation into the use of formal methods in the analysis of cryptographic processors, potentially benefiting all parties who need security in their computer applications.

IR CPE PROJECTS

P045/IR CPE- Promoting Innovation and Productivity in Electricity Markets
MIT: Paul Joskow, Denny Ellerman, Economics
CU: David Newbury, Michael Pollitt, Applied Economics	£758K, 3 years	
E	

The aim of this research project is to draw on international experience in order to investigate how we can best insure that electricity sector reforms can promote productivity and innovation within the electricity sector. It will examine the strengths and weaknesses of alternative architectures for liberalized electricity markets, the interaction between electricity markets and market-based environmental control mechanisms and how technological innovation can be promoted in the industry in ways that are compatible with environmental goals and constraints. The coordinating theme of our proposed research is developing simple, feasible mechanisms to improve the management of complex spatial networks.  We will draw heavily on the joint expertise of economists and engineers at Cambridge and MIT.  A major output of this initiative will be a series of publications, meetings and conferences involving business leaders and government officials concerned about energy and environmental policy with the goal of maximizing opportunities for the results of this research to positively affect business and public policy decisions.

P51/IR CPE– New Firm Growth in New Industries
MIT: Prof. James Utterbuck, Sloan School
CU: Dr Elizabeth Garnsey, Engineering	£1023K, 3 years	
B	
This project on new enterprises in new industries aims to:
Increase understanding of internal growth processes and problems in high tech new enterprises; improve knowledge of industry evolution in new high tech industries; improve conceptualisation and evidence on network activity of high tech enterprises

P058/IR CPE– The Geography of Innovation: Creating Places for Enterprise Development
MIT: Bernard Frieden, Architecture
CU:   Peter Tyler, Land Economy	£250K, 1 year	
E	

This project will examine cases where universities, committees, economic development planners, industry leaders etc have tried to create enabling environments for the growth of technology intensive industries.

P065/IR CPE – The Globalizing Behaviour of UK Firms in a Comparative Context
MIT: Suzanne Berger, Political Science and Industrial 
          Performance Centre
CU:   Christel Lane, Centre for Business Research and SPS	£1393K, 4 years	
E	

This project will analyse the responses to globalisation of British firms in comparison with the responses of a set of similar firms in the same sectors in the US, continental west Europe and Japan.  The research will examine empirically three related firm responses to the pressures of globalisation: changes in corporate governance; changes in organizational scope and structure; and changes in location.  The principle research methodology will consist of in-depth interviews carried out by multi-disciplinary teams of Cambridge and MIT researchers at matched sets of firms in the UK, US, Germany, Japan, France and Italy.  The firms will be drawn from four sectors.  The sectoral selection criteria will include the value of the sector to British exports, to employment, and to innovative activities.  The strategic responses of British firms and the processes through which their decisions are negotiated, advanced and implemented within the firm will be compared with those of their counterparts (and competitors) overseas.  The objective is to contribute to a better understanding of how to improve the performance of British productive activities.

P067/IR CPE – International Innovation benchmarking and the Determinants of Business Success.

MIT: Prof. Richard Lester, Industrial Performance Centre
CU:   Dr A.D. Cosh, Centre for Business Research	£700K, 2.5 years	
B	

The first purpose of the project is to benchmark UK/US innovation performance in a wider European context using comparable data derived from responses to core European Community Innovation Survey questions.  At present there are no surveys of innovative behaviour in the USA that allow a comparison with any European country.  This is a major gap in the literature and opens the way for a major original contribution of the project.  The businesses covered will include the full size range of entrepreneurial and larger firms.

The second purpose is to carry out an econometric analysis of the determinants of innovation activity and its impact on business performance, based on the rich dataset generated by the survey.  This also will be unique in providing the first specifically designed comparative analysis of the innovative behaviour of UK and US firms, utilizing standardized measures of innovation activity, and relating them to a commonly agreed set of performance and causal variables developed for, and collected in, the proposed innovation survey.

B	
P074/IR CPE– Understanding the Development and Commercialisation of Digital Technologies

MIT: Prof. W. Orlikowski, Sloan Management School
CU: Dr K. Munir, Judge Institute of Management Studies 	£242K, 2 years	
This project addresses a key failing of British hi-tech firms: an inability, despite having the necessary scientific and technological knowledge, to transcend technological discontinuities successfully and to take advantage of the opportunities offered by new technologies.  Specifically, the project will involve study of how digital technologies are transforming existing markets for products and services and to identify strategies for British firms to capitalise on the opportunities that are offered.  The study will focus on the evolutionary dynamics in two industries: digital imaging and digital online news.  The aim is to develop a model of how potential users draw on various social structures to make sense of products based on radically new technologies.  The research will seek to enable managers in the British hi-tech sector to understand the evolutionary dynamics of digital technologies and thus to take advantage of all the opportunities that radical change creates.  Expertise at both MIT and Cambridge will be drawn upon to come up with a fuller understanding of digital technology and the accompanying evolutionary dynamics.

A Major output of this initiative will be a series of publications, workshops and conferences involving business leaders concerned about the impact of digital technology on their industries with the goal of maximising opportunities for the results of this research to positively affect business and public policy decisions.

PP PROJECTS

E	
P002/PP - Windows on Science
MIT:  J Pickering,  Charles Marshall, MIT Museum
CU:  D Norman, Andy Buckley, Sedgwick Museum	£19K, 1 year	

Development of effective outreach and public access programmes by science and technology based institutes are vital to the development and maintenance of public understanding, sympathy and appreciation.  Collaboration between the staff of MIT and Cambridge Museums will explore the range and variety of techniques available in the fields of access and outreach.  This will lead to new collaborative ventures ranging from staff exchange, international events, development of educational programmes.  In particular there would be a focus on realising the huge potential available through joint IT initiatives.

P006/PP - A UK Masters Course in Advanced Chemical Engineering Practise
MIT: T A Hatton, Chemical Engineering
CU: J S Dennis, Chemical Engineering	£1369K, 4 years	
E	

To develop a one year MPhil course in advanced chemical engineering practice at CU to mirror the very successful one at MIT and which would include (a) the establishment of two UK ‘Practice Schools’ to be attended by MIT and CU students (b) joint CU/MIT delivery of course modules and (c) CU students attending the Fall Semester of the MIT Masters Course.

P021b/PP - A New MPhil Course in Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Development at CU
 MIT: E Adams, Civil & Environmental engineering
CU: Civil & Environmental engineering, Engineering	£1588K, 4 years	
E	

This project will address the design and delivery of a new MPhil course entailing the development of new material and the inclusion of a wide range of existing modules in an open architecture; the development of novel approaches in distance learning, and the exchange of teaching elements between CU and MIT.

P024b/PP - Development of a TPP-type Programme for Cambridge University
MIT: D Hastings, Aeronautics& Astronautics
CU: J Runde, Judge Institute	£728K, 4 years	
E	

The Technology Policy Programme has run successfully at MIT for over 30 years.  The programme combines in-depth technological and engineering expertise with a range of policy-relevant subjects, producing engineers who are aware of the policy implications of their work.  A Cambridge-UK version of this programme is to be developed jointly by Cambridge and MIT faculty, commencing on a pilot basis in Autumn 2001.

P025/PP - Managing Change and Innovations in Work and Organisations
MIT: T Kochan, Sloan School
CU: Simon Deakin, Economics	£424K, 2 years	
E	

The basic proposition underlying this project is that while the nature of work and the workforce have changed dramatically, the institutions governing work and employment are based on models of the past - an industrial model of the economy, a male breadwinner model of the labour force and family structure, and a norm of shareholder primacy in corporate governance.  The result of this mismatch has created and is sustaining an unacceptable gap between the winners and losers in today’s labour markets and holding back the innovative capacity of many firms and organizations.  Thus both the economy and the society are paying a price for failure to get on with the task of modernizing employment policies and institutions.  The project will focus on emerging forms of partnership at work, family-friendly employment policies and inclusive corporate governance practices which are addressing the need for a new architecture of employment institutions in America and Britain.  The project will directly address the link between institutions, competitiveness and productivity which is a central concern of CMI through collaborative research and dissemination of findings, and will provide for the adaptation to the needs of British users of a teaching module developed initially at MIT.

P052/PP - Building a Biomedical Business: Effectively translating biomedical science and engineering into business
MIT: Fiona Murray, Sloan School
CU: Steven Casper, Judge Institute	£180K, 2 years	
E	

This course is intended for anyone interested in founding or growing a biomedical company or working in the healthcare sector with a particular focus on the introduction of biomedical innovations. This course will be developed with the entrepreneurial manager-scientist in mind.  It will assume some knowledge of the start-up process (consistent with the 15.390 New Ventures course at MIT or the Cambridge Core MBA Course in Entrepreneurship).  We will therefore not explicitly cover the “nuts and bolts” of new business plans, but rather aim to understand the specific needs of those writing business plans and building companies in the biomedical sector of the economy.

P053/PP - Development of a BioScience Enterprise Programme for Cambridge University
MIT: Martha Grey, Health Sciences & Technology
CU: Joe Herbert, Biological, Veterinary and Medical Sciences	£250K, 1 year	
E	

This proposal is directed towards establishing an MPhil programme in BioScience Enterprise for Cambridge University that will run in parallel and interact with a Masters programme in Biomedical Enterprise at MIT.  The objective of the programme is to provide high-level education to those who will be the entrepreneurs and innovators of the future.  It will attract students of high calibre, and provide them with an integrated programme of contemporary scientific knowledge, the legal and ethical framework of business practice and a strong grounding in business and enterprise, orientated towards the sphere of biomedical and biotechnological industrial innovation.  In importing best practice from MIT, we will be seeking to secure the involvement of outward looking individuals with relevant understanding of both sides of the divide between academia and industry, in addition to other skills, such as communications and relationship building.

P057/PP - Developing & Managing a Successful Technology and product strategy: Designing a Distance Offering
MIT: Rebecca Henderson, Sloan School
CU: N.A.	£26K, 1 year	
E	

Designing a version of the well received course “Developing & managing a Successful Technology and Product Strategy: Designing a Distance Offering” so that it can be taught at a distance.

P076/PP –Transferring Successful Design Strategies Across Sectors
A	

MIT: Prof. L. Bucciarelli, School of Engineering
CU: Dr C. Eckert, CUED 	£95K, 2 years	
This project will conduct comparative research on design methods and practise in widely different sectors to foster transfer of best practices.  Two research colloquia with experienced professionals will provide data for analysis and dissemination through a workshop under the aspices of the Design Council and commercial and academic publication.  A key aim is to establish a network for ongoing exchange of design and product development methods.

P077/PP –MIT Support of the Development of a CU Version of the MIT Technology 	 	     Policy Program.
MIT: Daniel Hastings, Engineering
CU: Jochen Runde, JIMS 	£1,011K, 4 years	
A	

Continuation of three previous CMI funded programs to develop a CU technology policy program.  Stage four will develop a core integrative course similar to the basic technology and policy course at MIT, which will form the backbone of the CU TPP program.  Once this has been set up, and in conjunction with the three previous courses and various optional courses presently running at JIMS and the CUED, CU will be in a position to offer a one year M.Phil version of the MIT TPP from October 2002.

UE PROJECTS

P023/UE - Material and Process Selection Short Course
MIT: L Gibson, Materials science Engineering
CU: D Cebon, Engineering	£26K, 1 year	
E	

This short course consists of 8 one-hour lectures, 2 two-hour computing sessions using the ‘Cambridge Engineering Selector’ software, and a set of exercises.  The eight hours of lectures will be delivered in Cambridge and transmitted in real time to MIT using video-conferencing facilities.  Computing classes will be conducted independently at the two universities.

P30b/UE – Accelerated Studio
MIT: B Sanyal, Urban studies & Planning
CU: M Grant, Land Economy	£315K, 2 years	
E	

The Joint Studio seeks to educate planning and design students about innovative ways to use space, design, transportation, development and public policies to accommodate technology-led and entrepreneurial development in the regions of the Cambridge’s (UK and US) while sustaining a liveable environment there.

P060/UE - MEMS Undergraduate Education: materials design and processing for MMAs

MIT: SM Spearing, Aeronautics and Astronautics
          MA Schmidt, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
CU:   J Williams, N Fleck, W Milne, D Moore, Engineering	£749K, 3 years	
E	

MEMS has been described as a disruptive technology changing dramatically the form of established technological solutions as well as opening up new areas for commercial exploitation.  The aim of this teaching initiative would be to generate pedagogic material to both raise the awareness of a significant proportion of the undergraduate body of Cambridge engineers of this technology as well as providing sufficiently detailed education to those graduates who will be leading the UK’s participation in this rapidly developing field.

P062/UE - Infrastructure survey and needs specification for CMI remote collaboration and educational ICT initiatives
MIT: na
CU: Jem Rashbass, CARET	£72K, 1 year	
E	
An important element of the work of CMI is to exploit various information and communication technologies to facilitate:
•	Collaboration between various sites at the two institutions.  This may be between different research groups, teams developing new courses, students working with each other at a distance, CMI staff in both institutions and others.
•	Distance education in both the PPP and UE programmes with consequences for the NCN programme.
•	The development of new teaching modalities and courses.

This project will enable the Cambridge element of these activities to be speedily and effectively developed though first surveying, and secondly making recommendations for the development of the technical infrastructure for each of these areas.

P063/UE - Analysis and Evaluation of Remote Collaboration Technologies in the Design Studio and Elsewhere
MIT: na
CU: Alan Blackwell, Computer Laboratory	£180K, 3 years	
E	

The aim of this project is to (a) write a review of the existing literature on collaboration through new ICT; (b) study the processes of remote collaboration in the Joint Urban Design studio which CMI has funded and (c) develop further research proposals in this area.

P064/UE – OKI: Development and evaluation of a generic learning management system
MIT: Vijay Kumar, Academic Media Production Services
CU:  Jem Rashbass, CARET	£1296K, 3 years	
B	

The work outlined in this proposal is for the development of a generic, open source, modular learning management system based upon sound pedagogic principles that is comparable with the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) led by MIT.  The deliverables will take the form of specific modules written with direct input from, and to address the needs of, several courses being produced as part of the undergraduate exchange and professional practice programmes in CMI.  The educational benefits of these will be evaluated as a basic research component that is integral to the proposed work and will be used to inform subsequent developments.  The OKI represents a major project in the higher education sector of the US with direct links to the international standards organisations ADL and IMS.  As such, the products of this CMI proposal and those form the OKI are likely to affect online teaching throughout the world and a deliverable from this proposal will be at least one meeting to inform the NCN, and subsequently, appropriate guidance for members of the NCN who wish to take part in the OKI.

069/UE – CMI Connections

MIT: K Kolenbrander, Office of the President
CU:   E R Wallach, King’s College	£71K, 1 year	
E	

The project will enable a shared entrepreneurial experience for approximately 70 Cambridge and MIT undergraduates in which individuals are challenged within a supporting community to develop and share a vision for the future and to create a plan of action to support that vision.  The program represents a direct contribution of the Undergraduate Education and Student Exchange Programmes of CMI to the primary entrepreneurship objective of CMI.  CMI Connections uses a curricular platform that resembles that of MIT Leadership, a six-day leadership development program that MIT has run in partnership with LeaderShape, Inc. each year since 1995.  The key feature of the program is the sustained presence of students, faculty and staff throughout the week.  Approximately 12 faculty and staff from the two institutions will join the 70 Cambridge and MIT undergraduates.  Using a curriculum that is highly interactive, the students, faculty and staff will all serve as both teachers and as learners throughout the week.

P083/UE –Development of Mathematics Project Course Material (CATAM)
MIT: Professor Haynes Miller, Mathematics
CU: Dr Robert Hunt, DAMTP	£375K, 3 years	
A	

Course Material will be created to update and augment existing computational mathematics projects at CU and create “Mathematics Laboratory” courses at MIT.

P084/UE –Developing Institutionally Based Digital Archives in the UK
MIT: Ann Wolpert, Director MIT Libraries
CU: Peter Fox, CU Library 	£116K, 1 years	
A	

Proposes to study the value of creating institutionally based digital archives in top research facilities of the UK.  The research team also proposes to take advantage of the DSpace facility developed as a joint research project of MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard.  They anticipate that CU will be the first international federator of DSpace.  

P085/UE –Learning and Teaching English: Online Multi Media Approaches.
MIT: Professor Peter Donaldson, Literature Faculty
CU: Professor Barry Windeatt, Faculty of English	£503K, 3 years	
A	

Collaborative work to produce web sites and on line facilities for teaching and learning in English Literature, with particular emphasis on the use of different forms of media for teaching Victorian literature, Shakespeare, and textual analysis.

P088/UE –Cambridge-MIT Games to Teach Module Development for Classroom Use and 	      Testing.
MIT: Henry Jenkins, Comparative Media Studies
CU: Jem Rashbass, CARET	£193K, 1 year	
A	

The development of example educational programmes based on the concepts created by the iCampus Games to Teach Project at MIT and immersive 3D technologies developed by CARET at Cambridge University.  The work will lead to the development and deployment of working modules for computer and video game prototypes in a number of subjects; these will be tested among and evaluated on students at CU and MIT, as well as other universities.  

P095/UE –Teaching Hardware / Software Codesign.
MIT: Professor Anantha Chandrakasan, Microsystem Lab
CU: Dr Simon Moore, Computer Lab	£191K, 2 years	
A	

Proposes to develop the next generation of laboratory equipment for teaching hardware / software codesign to computer science and electrical engineering undergraduates.
Pre-proposal only.