Materials With Intelligence
Smart Materials
Applications that Improve Lives
Our faculty researchers are focused on finding practical ways to advance sensor technology, to create new materials that can reconfigure themselves to react to environmental conditions, and to improve the lifecycle management of infrastructure through sensor systems and predictive modeling. Watch the video to learn more.
Research in Action
Advancing Materials
Sensors are increasingly embedded in everyday technology such as lights, thermostats, security systems, smoke alarms, refrigerators, and automobiles. Voice-activated personal assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa connect with some of these devices, but the smart homes of the future will have fully integrated sensor technology that can be managed from a single device. What’s more, they’ll use artificial intelligence and machine learning to adapt to your patterns and recognize changes that could predict a safety hazard.
Pushing the Limits of Technology
Researchers in the Texas State Materials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization program (MSEC) develop advanced materials for innovative solutions in the areas of energy, environment, health and security. A unique resource available to the program allows researchers to push the boundaries of new technologies and make improvements in specific fields like solar power, computer speed, infrared imaging and many others.
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Funding Opportunities
Students
- Sponsor a collaboration between industry and faculty/students to solve a challenge or advance new applied knowledge
- Provide undergraduate scholarships to help Texas State recruit high-achieving students to collaborate with faculty on research
- Endow graduate fellowships and scholarships to fund student research opportunities
Faculty
- Invest in faculty fellowships to recruit visiting experts in materials science to collaborate with students
- Sponsor opportunities for students, faculty, and industry to showcase their innovative sensors-based projects
- Establish an endowed professorship to support faculty in continuing cutting-edge research
- Name an endowed chair to support departmental leadership in the future of teaching and research in these areas
Programs
- Endow a Materials with Intelligence Program Fund to provide flexible resources to implement and sustain this initiative
- Seed and accelerate projects that focus on materials with intelligence research
- Direct grants to support the purchase of state-of-the-art equipment and training for advanced sensor development and testing
- Fund a Materials with Intelligence Innovator Award that encourages new research collaborations and highlights innovative sensor development
- Support boot camps to teach sensors-based entrepreneurship and commercialization