The Next Century of Research at Georgia Tech Georgia Tech faculty and administrators polled by Research Horizons listed the following technologies and areas of study as having the potential for making major contributions in the 21st century:

Smart Garment. Dr. Sundaresan Jayaraman, School of Textile & Fiber Engineering. http://vishwa.tfe.gatech.edu/gtwm/gtwm.html Microneedles. Drs. Mark Prausnitz and Mark Allen, School of Chemical Engineering and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. www.gtri.gatech.edu/rh-sf98/needles.html Biomaterial called Salubria. Dr. David Ku, School of Mechanical Engineering. www.gtri.gatech.edu/rh-spr99/biomat.html Microjet cooling. Drs. William Black, Ari Glezer and James Hartley, School of Mechanical Engineering. www.gtri.gatech.edu/rh-spr98/mjet.html Combustion CVD of liquid oxygen solutions licensed by Microcoating Technologies Inc. Former graduate student Dr. Andrew Hunt. www.gtri.gatech.edu/rh-win99/film.html Future computing. Dr. Gregory Abowd, College of Computing. www.gtri.gatech.edu/rh-spr98/b-band.html Tissue engineering. Drs. Robert Nerem, David Ku and Robert E. Guldberg, School of Mechanical Engineering; Dr. Athanassios Sambanis, School of Chemical Engineering; and Dr. Ajit Yoganathan, School of Biomedical Engineering. www.gtri.gatech.edu/rh-win98/bio.html Digital imaging of microstructures. Dr. David McDowell, School of Mechanical Engineering, Chair of Materials Council; and Dr. Arun Gokhale, School of Materials Science and Engineering. www.me.gatech.edu/me/people /academic.faculty/McDowell_David.html   www.mse.gatech.edu/faculty/gokhale/gokhale.html Delivery of digital TV over ordinary phone lines via DSL technology to homes commercialized by mPhase Technologies Inc. . Drs. Ron Bohlander, Kirk Pennywitt and Tim Strike, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Information Technology and Telecommunication Laboratory, and Electronic Systems Laboratory. www.mphasetech.com/ Understanding cognitive processes in aging. Dr. Anderson Smith, School of Psychology. www.gtri.gatech.edu/rh-win97/aging.htm Medical imaging. Dr. Paul Benkeser, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Dr. Norberto Ezquerra, College of Computing. www.gtri.gatech.edu/rh-win98/bio.html    www.bme.gatech.edu/faculty/benkeser.htm    www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/norberto.ezquerra/ Neuroengineering. Drs. Stephen Deweerth, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and William Ditto, School of Physics. www.bme.gatech.edu/faculty/deweerth.htm www.bme.gatech.edu/faculty/ditto.htm Bioinformatics. Dr. Mark Borodovsky, School of Biology. www.gtri.gatech.edu/rh-win99/gen-main.html Design and development of technologies for reusable space launch vehicles. Dr. John Olds, School of Aerospace Engineering. www.prism.gatech.edu/~nasa0008/olds.shtml Design of supersonic aircraft that is both technically and economically practical. Drs. Dimitris Mavris and Stephen Ruffin, School of Aerospace Engineering. www.asdl.gatech.edu/people/dnmavris/    www.ae.gatech.edu/graduate/admission_info/Ruffin.html Adaptive control system using emotional long-term memory. Drs. Ashwin Ram and Anthony Francis, College of Computing. www.cc.gatech.edu/~ashwin/    www.cc.gatech.edu/aimosaic/students/centaur/ Laser scanner for early cataract prediction. Dr. Nai-Teng Yu, School of Chemistry. www.chemistry.gatech.edu/people/faculty/Yu.html Telemedicine technology. Drs. Mike Burrow and John Peifer, Biomedical Interactive Technology Center, in collaboration with the Medical College of Georgia. www.ibb.gatech.edu/bioengineering/research/informatics/    www.gtri.gatech.edu/res-news/HOUSECALL.html Microspring technology. Dr. Suresh Sitaraman, School of Mechanical Engineering. www.me.gatech.edu/me/people/academic.faculty/Sitaraman_Suresh.html Advanced electrical testing. Dr. Abhijit Chatterjee, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. http://users.ece.gatech.edu/chat/ Underfill and adhesive materials. Dr. C.P. Wong, School of Materials Science and Engineering. www.mse.gatech.edu/faculty/wong/wong.html Environmentally conscious design. Dr. Bert Bras, School of Mechanical Engineering. www.me.gatech.edu/me/people/academic.faculty/Bras_Bert.html Microflyers. Dr. Robert Michelson, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Aerospace and Transportation Laboratory. www.gtri.gatech.edu/rh-spr97/microfly.htm Engineering the environment to face vexing 21st century problems, including transportation. Multidisciplinary. www.gtri.gatech.edu/rh-spr99/traffic.html Management Science: the capability to structure the activities of a global firm, including distributed design and dynamic supply chain management; and methods to assess and prioritize the multiple short- and long-term goals required for global competitiveness. Multidisciplinary. www.srl.gatech.edu Using the decision-based design paradigm: extend existing methods to develop both distributed and centralized decision-making capabilities and solution algorithms for agile, rapid, flexible enterprise management and design. Multidisciplinary. www.srl.gatech.edu Test bed development for product design and enterprise-wide design methodologies that contribute to the understanding of distributed design and manufacturing in a global context. Multidisciplinary. www.srl.gatech.edu Enterprise integration and process re-engineering: design of supply chains and management strategies for realizing systems and products for the global marketplace. Multidisciplinary. www.me.gatech.edu/me/people/academic.faculty/Mistree_Farrokh.html Environmentally conscious design and manufacture: metrics and methods for the realization of systems and products for the global marketplace. Multidisciplinary. www.srl.gatech.edu/people/bras/ecdmpres/index.htm Robust concept exploration of product families: top-level specifications for product families that can be manufactured at different plants around the world. Multidisciplinary. www.srl.gatech.edu Environmental health: issues related to particulates both on the local and the regional scale. School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. www.eas.gatech.edu Gases in the atmosphere: field experiments supported by modeling aimed at understanding the global distribution of gases in the atmosphere. School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. www.eas.gatech.edu Materials: especially polymers and composites. Multidisciplinary. www.mse.gatech.edu    www.ce.gatech.edu Information security and electronic commerce. Georgia Tech Information Security Center. www.gtisc.gatech.edu Interdisciplinary and integrated research in systems design, operations management, operations research and computer science. Multidisciplinary. www.isye.gatech.edu Microchips: i.e., the adoption of silicon technology to build things other than computer chips, namely: fluidics, biologics, MEMS mini- mechanical systems . School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. www.ece.gatech.edu Microelectronics packaging. Microelectronics Research Center and Packaging Research Center. www.mirc.gatech.edu    www.prc.gatech.edu Earth system science and climate change. School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. www.eas.gatech.edu Contents    Research Horizons    GT Research News    GTRI    Georgia Tech Send questions and comments regarding these pages to Webmaster@gtri.gatech.edu Last updated: October 25, 1999