Academic Enrichment 1996 Award Recipient

CMR Scholar in Sensor Materials

Sponsored by:

     Office of Research, Center for Materials Research

Participating Units:

     College of Engineering
     College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Award:   Hire distinguished senior faculty whose research will enhance areas of excellence already at OSU.

Annual Funding: $75,000          

Dr. Marc Madou, CMR Scholar in Sensor Materials, was hired in April 1997. He was founder and principal of Microfabrication Applications and President and founder of Teknekron Sensor Development Corporation. Prior to these activities he held scientific and management positions at Stanford Research International. He is the author of some 100 publications, holds over a dozen patents with several additional patents
pending and is the author of a definitive text book on microfabrication.

Dr. Madou holds appointments in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Chemistry. He also serves as Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Industrial Sensors and Measurements (CISM).

Since arriving at OSU, Dr. Madou has established a state-of-the-art processing lab and initiated a new program emphasizing Bio MEMS
(MicroElectroMechanicalSystems). Examples of his devices include medical sensors for glucose, urea, blood and breath, as well as a telemetric pill that is designed to transmit data from inside the body.

Dr. Madou has led a number of interdisciplinary initiatives. Among them is a seven-week CMR seminar series on BioMaterials that featured presentations by science/engineering speakers combined with presentations from an OSU Medical College, Dental College or Veterinary College faculty member. This was the first time that these communities held such a joint seminar. In addition, Professor Madou has
developed programs with the Cleveland Clinic, the Battelle Institute and the Edison Bio Technology Center. In 1999 he was awarded a $1.4 million dollar Ohio Board of Regents Hayes Investment Fund Award to purchase equipment for his work in BioMems. This was the result of a consortium which he led with engineers from OSU, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Cincinnati.