Research Experience For Undergraduates (REU): Research Participation in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

建立了一个REU网站项目，有8名学生参加。该项目包括夏季和学年两个部分。在8名参与者中，至少有3名将从规模较小、研究活动有限的地区学院中选出，参加暑期项目。招聘工作的一个特别重点是吸引大学内外的妇女、少数民族和残疾学生团体的参与者。六名教职员工将监督REU参与者的研究工作。教职员工积极从事的研究领域包括实验和计算流体力学、气体动力学、传热、直升机空气动力学和空气弹性稳定性、空气声学、噪声控制、汽车工程、造纸技术和机器人技术。REU参与者可以在他感兴趣的任何一个研究领域中选择研究问题。典型的研究问题有：(1)二维射流的建模；(2)并行结构计算机上的计算流体力学；(3)实验非定常换热；(4)无轴承转子叶片的气动弹性稳定性；(5)短纤维复合材料的细观力学建模；(6)相互作用的同轴超音速射流中的组织结构。

A REU Site program is established involving eight student participants. The program has both the summer and academic year components. At least three of the eight participants will be selected for summer participation from smaller regional colleges with limited research activity. A particular focus of recruitment efforts is to attract participants from women, minority and disabled student groups from within and without the university. Six faculty members will supervise the research efforts of the REU participants. The areas in which the faculty members are actively engaged in research span experimental and computational fluid mechanics, gas dynamics, heat transfer, helicopter aerodynamics and aeroelastic stability, aeroacoustics, noise control, automotive engineering, paper technology and robotics. A REU participant may select research problem in any one of these research areas of interest to him. Typical research problems are: (1) modelling of two dimensional jets, (2) computational fluid dynamics on parallel-architecture computers, (3) experimental unsteady heat transfer, (4) aeroelastic stability of bearingless rotor blades, (5) micromechanics modelling of short fiber composites, and (6) organized structures in interacting coaxial supersonic jets.