Up Close: The Advanced Materials Institute
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The Advanced Materials Institute (AMI) is the materials research arm of the Colorado Advanced Technology Institute (CATI), a state agency created in 1983 by the state General Assembly as an economic development initiative involving academic, industry, and government sectors. AMI represents a unique process in academic research: long-term materials needs of industry members are addressed by university investigators, with federal agencies providing the major source of funding. AMI is a consortium of four research universities (Colorado School of Mines as the lead institution, Colorado State University, and the Universities of Colorado and Denver) and a present industrial membership of nine corporations (AMAX Inc., Adolph Coors Company, Digital Equipment Corporation, Gates Company, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Manville, Martin Marietta, and Telectronics). The Institute is governed by a Board of Directors with representatives from each participating organization. Sustaining memberships, which do not include representation on the Board, are available; memberships of both kinds are open to non-Colorado-based companies.
two universities to focus on a single problem, reducing research and equipment duplication. Overview of Results
As AMI begins its third year, the 25 awards authorized to date have resulted in seven major grants which now exceed $2.3 million; 15 more proposals are either under review or being written. Each grant obtained in this manner represents a project, initially defined by company members, which also reflects the mutual interests of
Four New Laboratories
This year CATI has made funds available to permit AMI to start specialized materials research laboratories. Proposals were invited from principal investigators, and industry board members selected from more than a dozen proposals the four that promised the greatest potential benefit: • Materials Processing (Colorado School of Mines) • High-Speed Electronic Materials (University of Colorado) • Amorphous Materials (Colorado School of Mines) • Polymers (Colorado State University) Each laboratory will have multi-university involvement. National Conference on Industry-University Advanced Materials
AMI hosted its first national conference February 25-27, 1987 in Denver, Colorado in conjunction with the annual meeting of The Metallurgical Society. Cosponsors were the Solar Energy Research Institute and the National Bureau of Standards. Nationally recognized research leaders presented keynote addresses in each topical area, followed by invited and contributed papers, more than 60 in all. The topical areas covered included advanced ceramics, amorphous materials, interfacial phenomena, materials and processes for highspeed electronic devices, and new high performance composites.
How the AMI Concept Works
The long-term materials needs of industry members provide AMI's research agenda; many items, once identified, become company-shared interests. Requests for proposals, based on the agenda, are distributed to the affiliated universities for competitive awarding of
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