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    Initiating Cross Disciplinary Research : The Neuron-Based Chemical Sensor Project
    (Chemical Engineering Education, 1989) Kisaalita, William S.; Van Wie, Bernard J.; Skeen, Rodney S.; Davis, William C.; Barnes, Charles D.; Fung, Simon J.; Chun, Kukjin; Dogan, Numan S.
    CHEMICAL ENGINEERING is essential to the pro-cess of bringing new areas like biotechnology, electronic, and other advanced materials to commercial success. The success of this process depends on significant cooperation between chemical engineering and other disciplines. Although there is a large volume of literature on the subject of interdisciplinary and/or crossdisciplinary research [1-3], most of it concerns large projects (as defined in Table 1) and little has been written from a chemical engineering perspective. The rationale behind the levels of funding used in Table 1 is called for. Usually in the initial stages of a project, $30,000 to $70,000 for a single year is only sufficient to generate pilot data and perhaps to provide incentive for the formation of a cross-or an interdisciplinary team. A yearly budget of $70,000 to $150,000 for a period of three to five years provides enough for more than one graduate student to focus on specific aspects relating to the expertise of each co-investigator. Amounts above $150,000 can support large groups with more personnel per discipline involved as well as supporting inter-university research activities where extensive travel may be necessary. The purpose of this paper is to address the problems