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Friday, June 29, 2001
http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=1558 TEACHERS LEARN HOW TO SPARK INTEREST IN SMALL TECH AMONG NEXT GENERATION By Tom Henderson Small Times Senior Writer .... ANOTHER PROGRAM IN ILLINOIS A researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is creating a short course in small tech aimed at high school students and hopes to have a video series available for distribution and a Web site launched early next year. Taher Saif, an assistant professor in mechanical engineering, received a three-year, $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in mid-1998. Most of the money was to support his research in thin films for small tech devices, but $40,000 was to develop instruction materials in MEMS. Saif said he got the university to add $10,000 to the teaching project....
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