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So let me end up in the last five or six minutes here to come back to the original title and theme of the talk, which is “the culture of research.” In the research culture in the professions, use-inspired concepts drive programs. So everybody knows nano, right? Everybody hears the word nano. This is your 787, your Boeing 787. The entire electrical system will be driven by the mechanical flopping of the flings, because energy-harvesting nano materials will be embedded within the composite materials for the wings. Fascinating, this robosurgery, which, right now coming out of our electrical engineering department, is completely remote surgery; these robot sort of surgical devices are completely remote devices. The short-term focus is at the high end in the developed world. Within a decade, these things are going to be absolutely robust for third-world and global health issues. Again, so the use of this is inspiring the way this is going to go. At the University Of Washington, the College of Engineering has 7.5 percent of the faculty members in the university. We have more than 50 percent of the intellectual property developed for the university. My goal is to make it 75 percent within a couple of years. Now, that assumes everybody else is constant. Also, too, our bioengineering department here is shared by the medical school and the engineering school. In fact, much of the school of medicine consists of bioengineers. The core value for us is the connection to our profession. |
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