On August 23rd, DTU and the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development, AOARD, located in Japan, held an information session about the AOARD Research Fund for Asian scientists. Attendees included Dr. Seng Hong, Program manager of AOARD and lecturers and researchers at the DTU Institute for Research and Development.
Dr. Seng Hong
The primary focus of AOARD is to fund basic research to advance the frontiers of science. The fund was created to cultivate and build relationships between leading scientists and engineers throughout Asia-Pacific with their university counterparts. AFOSR and AOARD have a long-term view of application development, with an interest in developing collaborative projects between Asia-Pacific scientists and engineers, and AFRL scientists.
AOARD will collaborate with and finance eligible researchers at DTU and sponsor Air Force related workshops and conferences. Dr. Ta Quoc Bao, from the DTU Institute for Research and Development, who received financial support from AOARD in 2015, talked about his project entitled: “Research on Manufacturing a Handheld Medical Diagnostic Device”.
Dr. Ta Quoc Bao
Dr. Hong said: “AOARD currently supports about 1,200 projects at 200 research institutes worldwide. The future of the US Air Force relies on fundamental scientific research and AOARD has been expanding its investments to provide the optimal conditions for scientists to focus on US Air Force and National Defense projects.”
(Media Center)