There are numerous benefits to becoming a CASI Researcher. As an individual scientist, engineer, or business professor in higher education, you gain access to an organization tailored to create and maintain strong working level relationships between academia and your possible customers and sponsors in industry and government. Sponsored research existing because of CASI has grown in only three years from less than $200,000 per year in the CY2000 to over $2,000,000 per year in CY2002. It started in 1997 as an Oklahoma EPSCoR experiment and by 2001 had become an EPSCoR "graduate" providing major new opportunities to the faculty and staff of numerous higher education institutions.

New Research and Technical Needs
As a CASI Researcher, you will directly benefit from Center activity to increase the mutual awareness between your community and the aviation community. This activity is designed to show the aviation community specific expertise, capabilities and facilities which can benefit aviation. This activity is designed to show you of the CASI research community the requirements and technical needs of the aviation community. Currently CASI's scope is primarily maintenance, repair and overhaul needs of the Air Force and FAA communities in Oklahoma, but CASI is continually seeking opportunities to expand into other elements of aviation when it is clear that CASI can make a big different in another area of aviation. Over the past two years, CASI has developed close ties with several entities in the aviation community. They are:

• US Government entitites (e.g., Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, FAA's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center)
• Original Equipment Manufacturers (e.g, Boeing and Lockheed Martin)
• Major systems engineering and engineering support firms (e.g., CACI and SAIC)
• Charitable trust (e.g., Battelle Memorial Institute)
• Leading small business constractors (e.g., MTC and SSAI)

CASI is not limited to relationships with these partners. As a State of Oklahoma organization, the Center will continually seek out new teaming and subcontract relationships with any element of the aviation community that can contribute to the CASI research community, and is interested in working with our faculty and students.

Adding Your Information to the CASI Database

We have provided a searchable database via this website that CASI Directors and interested parties can use to find expertise needed on projects.  You can obtain an account on this database through the following link.  By following the instructions there you will be able to set up a password protected listing of your contact information, areas of expertise, research interests, past projects, ...

Enter/Edit Information on CASI Researcher Database

New Funding Opportunities
As a CASI Researcher, you would benefit from new funding opportunities identified and secured by CASI senior leadership. These funding opportunities emerge in large part because of the high quality and outstanding reputation of researchers already in the consortium, as well as the efforts of CASI leadership and the support of government and industry partners.

Streamlined "On Contract" Support
You would benefit from streamlined contract and financial arrangements set up to enable rapid "on contract" status in days or weeks rather than months. These arrangements are currently in existence with major aviation support firms such as Boeing, CACI - ASG, Lockheed Martin, MTC, SAIC, and SSAI.

In Depth Insight of Aviation Industry
Your work with the industry and government elements of the aviation community will enable you to bring relevant experience and problem sets into teaching your students. We are beginning to see students with CASI related experience obtaining employment in the aviation community.

Summer Employment
CASI has sponsored several highly successful projects during summer breaks of CY2000 through CY2002. We envision opportunities for more professors students to work on existing problems during future summer.

Opportunities to Identify Promising Areas for a Sabbatical Leaves
CASI also presents opportunities for interested faculty to work full time with an aviation partner during sabbaticals.

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