Undergraduate Research in Mechanical Engineering

在9周的暑假期间，REU网站计划将为大约10名学生提供广泛的机会，在广泛的机械工程主题上进行研究。该计划将在全国范围内进行广告宣传，并将选拔程序作为该计划的一个组成部分，这将最大限度地吸引全国顶尖学生，包括女性、残疾人和少数群体成员。被选中参加该项目的学生将有机会从几乎涵盖整个机械工程领域的广泛主题中选择一个暑期项目。具体的主题将由在该特定领域有专长并积极参与这些主题研究的教职员工指导。学生将被鼓励为他们的工作选修一门学分课程。没有这方面背景的学员可以参加一些补充课程，如基本的车间作业、仪器仪表以及计算机和计算机图形的使用。该计划的一个主要部分是一系列研讨会，其中包括学生介绍他们的研究计划(大约在计划一周后)和他们的结果(在计划结束时)。每个学生都需要一份正式的书面报告来总结他们的努力。在所有情况下，都将努力让学生的作品在技术出版社上发表。根据过去类似项目的经验，预计一些学生的作品实际上将是可以出版的，其中大量学生将继续读研究生。研究领域涉及工程设计、控制理论、流体力学、复合材料的传热学应用力学和制造。

An REU Site Program is proposed that will offer a wide variety of opportunities of approximately 10 students to perform research on a broad range of mechanical engineering topics during a 9-week summer period. National advertising of the program and selection procedures to be used as an integral part of the program will maximize the possibility of attracting top students nationally, including students who are women, handicapped, members of minority groups. Students selected for the program will have the opportunity of choosing a summer project from a wide range of topics that encompass virtually the complete realm of mechanical engineering. Specific topics are scheduled to be directed by faculty members with a specialty in that specific areas and who are active in research in those topics. The students will be encouraged to enroll in an optional credit course for their work. Supplemental programs, such as fundamentals of shop practice, instrumentation, and computer and computer graphics use, will be available to participants who do not have that background. An integral thrust of the program is a seminar series that includes the students presentation of their research plans (after approximately one week on the program) and their results (at the end of the program). A formal written report will be required of each student summarizing their efforts. In all cases, attempts will be made to have the students work publishable in the technical press. Based on past experience with similar programs, it is anticipated some of the student work will, in fact, be publishable and that a large number of these students will go on to graduate school. Research areas involve engineering design, control theory, fluid mechanics, heat transfer applied mechanics of composite and manufacturing.