UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering announced last week that
Cymer Inc. has provided major funding for an educational and research program
designed to train engineers to improve a wide variety of industrial products
and processes.

The new Cymer Center
for Control Systems and Dynamics, which opened May 30, is designed to enhance
the Jacobs School’s
chances of gaining numerous high-tech industry partnerships. CCSD will offer a
wide range of control classes and seminars whose breadth is unmatched by other U.S.
universities. Topics include communication systems and networks, seismic
protection, aerospace and marine systems and sensor networks,

“The field of controls has matured to the point where we can
now apply what we are learning from fusion reactors and magnetic levitation
trains to numerous other areas of application,” said Miroslav Krstic, founding
director of CCSD and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the
Jacobs School.
“The new center will broaden the faculty’s exposure to practical problems to a
growing list of important industrial applications.”