New Engineering Center to Transform Sensor Technology
Fourteen Baltimore researchers are part of a new national engineering research center that is expected to revolutionize sensor technology, yielding devices that have a unique ability to detect minute amounts of chemicals in the atmosphere, whether they are emitted from factories or exhaled in human breath.
The goal of the center is to produce devices that are so low in cost and so easy to use that they will transform the way doctors care for patients, local agencies monitor air quality, governments guard against attacks and scientists understand the evolution of greenhouse gases. Dubbed MIRTHE (for Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment), the project will combine the work of about 40 faculty members, 30 graduate students and 30 undergraduates from Princeton, Johns Hopkins, UMBC, Rice University, Texas A&M University and City College of New York.
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