{"id":57331,"date":"2025-06-12T14:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T18:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ieeeusa.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=57331"},"modified":"2025-07-29T16:49:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:49:38","slug":"more-than-microchips","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ieeeusa.org\/events\/more-than-microchips\/","title":{"rendered":"More than Microchips"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:calc( 1260px + 40px );margin-left: calc(-40px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-40px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:20px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:20px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:20px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:20px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:20px;--awb-spacing-left-small:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"IEEE-USA Webinar: More Than Microchips (A Special Presentation by DARPA)\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LGW8_RKJ5Xk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nPresenter: <\/strong>Dr. Rhonda Farrell<\/p>\n<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n<p>Since the invention of the transistor in 1947 and the integrated circuit in 1958, microchips have fueled scientific advancements, manufacturing innovations, and economic growth. Today, DARPA\u2019s Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) will advance the next generation of microsystems to disrupt the underlying technology, disrupt current manufacturing, and create new markets. This requires unique insight to discover fundamentally new ways of creating advanced circuits that will dramatically alter and exceed the current state-of-the-art in microsystems. This will involve:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using the power of light at the microscale in three dimensions with advanced photonics;<\/li>\n<li>Harnessing quantum mechanical phenomena for sensors and computers that break traditional classical limits;<\/li>\n<li>Developing a toolbox of organic and biological molecules and hybrid bioelectronics that will leverage living system phenomena and connect back to traditional microsystems;<\/li>\n<li>And advancing technologies for affordable, rapid, and sustainable microsystems fabrication to enable a new domestic manufacturing ecosystem that leverages commercial scaling and drives strong economic growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Join <strong>Dr. Whitney Mason<\/strong> to learn about how DARPA is reimagining microsystems, and upcoming opportunities to engage with DARPA in this effort.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><h2>About the Presenter<\/h2>\n<p><b><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignleft wp-image-57333 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/ieeeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Whitney-Mason-175x175.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/ieeeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Whitney-Mason-175x175.jpg\" alt=\"Whitney Mason, Ph.D.\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27175%27%20height%3D%27175%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20175%20175%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27175%27%20height%3D%27175%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ieeeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Whitney-Mason-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/ieeeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Whitney-Mason-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/ieeeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Whitney-Mason-175x175.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ieeeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Whitney-Mason-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ieeeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Whitney-Mason-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/ieeeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Whitney-Mason-275x275.jpg 275w, https:\/\/ieeeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Whitney-Mason-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ieeeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Whitney-Mason-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ieeeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Whitney-Mason-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ieeeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Whitney-Mason.jpg 700w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Whitney Mason, Ph.D.<\/strong>, is director of the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/about\/people\/whitney-mason1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at DARPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, she held the deputy director role in the agency\u2019s Strategic Technology Office (STO) from 2022 &#8211; 2023. Prior to joining STO, Mason served as a program manager in MTO from 2017 &#8211; 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Her research interests include imaging sensors that provide multifunction capability. In particular, she is interested in novel device structures, optics, and electronics that enable new capabilities compared to current state-of-the-art imaging systems.<\/p>\n<p>Mason joined DARPA from the Army C5ISR Center, formerly the Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center, where she was the director of the Science and Technology Division within the Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. In that role, she led a team of scientists and engineers in the pursuit of new and improved focal plane array materials and devices; advanced read-out circuits; and enhanced optical materials and designs, lasers, and image processing.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Education<\/span><br \/>\nPh.D., Physics, University of Oklahoma<br \/>\nBS, Physics, Georgetown University<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" 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href=\"http:\/\/innovationatwork.ieee.org\/ieee-usa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0to request a certificate.*<\/p>\n<p><em>*Please allow 7-10 days to receive a certificate.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how DARPA is reimagining microsystems, and about upcoming opportunities to engage with DARPA in this 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