2006 Faculty Awards: MeasureNet Earns Honor for Sprague, Vorhees
More than 100 installations in universities, community colleges and high schools attest to the potential of the MeasureNet hardware and software that the team of Estel Sprague, PhD, and Robert Voorhees created for use in student chemistry labs.
Their networked laboratory data system saves money by connecting 12 workstations in a 24-student lab to a single computer, rather than requiring 12. It also uses a web-based data storage system so that students can easily save and retrieve the results of their experiments.
Sprague and Voorhees invented MeasureNet in 1996 with funding from the National Science Foundation and Procter & Gamble. In 1998, they formed MeasureNet Technology Ltd. and obtained a licensing agreement with UC to market their invention commercially.
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