BMT NEWS Subscribe to one of three industry specific newsletters , locate the latest media information, or find an event to benefit your company on the calendar . Indiana BMT Soon, it will be possible for an Indiana company to create a machine with gears the size of a grain of pollen, and fabricate them thousands at a time for pennies apiece. The technology doesn t yet exist. The Initiative is sponsored by the NASA Glenn Research Center and the State of Ohio and managed by Battelle Memorial Institute. Indiana s 21 st Century Research and Technology Fund has supported several MEMs-based projects in Indiana.
MEMs are a new revolution in manufacturing extremely miniaturized mechanical devices.
MEMs are potentially the next great revolution in traditional engineering disciplines, said David Snow, BMT s Tech Access Manager. The Glennan Initiative is a technical partner that can assist projects or possibly share costs through NASA Joint Sponsored Research Agreements. The initiative is named for T. Keith Glennan, a former president of Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland who was named as the first administrator of NASA by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958. GMI is comprised of a growing membership that represents heavy industrial users, the scientists and facilities at NASA Glenn Research Center, several technical service firms, and major university research institutions. BMT is the latest member of the Initiative.