NSF-Experimental Systemic Initiative Supplemental Proposal

93-53661 POWER NSF-试验性系统倡议补充提案密西西比州NSF-EPSCoR项目已经完成了高级发展计划的第一年。这一高级计划的设计是，在化学/材料科学的广泛领域，各个校园组成部分以集群的形式相互作用，通过整合跨机构的资源，成功地解决了该州的研究障碍。教师和学生之间的合作导致了更多的教师和行业交流，增加了EPSCoR调查人员的研究活动，并加强了EPSCoR组成部分所在部门的本科生和研究生教学。这项实验性的系统倡议计划旨在加强教师的专业发展、本科生和研究生水平的学生发展、教育以及知识转移和与行业的互动。它将提供资金，使教职员工和学生有机会通过旅行以及与顶尖科学家举行的研讨会和研讨会与各自研究领域的专家进行互动。缺乏这种活动的机会被认为是该州进行研究的障碍之一。这项提案涉及密西西比州高级发展EPSCoR计划的三个目标：(A)通过实施机构间联系来培养足够数量的科学家；(B)通过与其他正在进行的计划合作并通过刺激该州的人力资源库积极参与研究和教育进程来加强科学界；以及(C)通过与其他研究界发展更强有力的研究联系，并建立商业联系和支持大学研究的机制，向适当的用户群体转让技术。密西西比州EPSCoR计划旨在满足该计划中个别组成部分的学生和教职员工的特定需求。这些活动的目标是那些将前往合适的行业或参加由受邀的科学家和顾问举办的校园研讨会的教师。他们还针对参与EPSCoR研究的学生以及该州和该地区其他大学的学生。这七项改进设计概述如下：-与参与聚合物粘合和复合材料相关研究的公司的教员互动；-与从事复合材料制造的公司和实验室的教员互动；-与从事复合材料制造的公司和实验室以及应力分析短期课程的教员互动；-教员与公司和实验室的互动，以交流无损评估、开发模拟无损评估过程的数值模型和分析超声波信号的知识；利用在超声波信号处理方面具有专业知识的外部顾问；-为州和地区调查人员和学生举办为期三天的研讨会和研讨会，与最先进的解决方案、固体和显微成像核磁共振实验方面的顶尖科学家一起；-教职员工和学生旅行参加专业会议；计划与公认演讲者举行计算化学会议；-为来访的学生提供本科生研究机会；为具有表面物理化学能力的新EPSCoR教员提供研究援助；-邀请科学家参加十个系列研讨会，为教职员工和研究生解决化学和生物系统中瞬变物种的光谱询问问题。

93-53661 Powe NSF-Experimental Systemic Initiative Supplemental Proposal The Mississippi NSF-EPSCoR Project has completed its first year of the Advanced Development Program. The advanced program, designed with individual campus components interacting as clusters in the broad areas of chemistry/materials science, is successfully addressing barriers to research in the state by combining resources across institutional lines. Collaboration among faculty and students has resulted in more faculty and industry exchanges, has increased research activity among the EPSCoR investigators, and has strengthened undergraduate and graduate instruction in the departments housing the EPSCoR components. This Experimental Systematic Initiative proposes to enhance the professional development of faculty, student development at the undergraduate and graduate levels, education, and knowledge transfer and interaction with industry. It will provide funding to allow faculty and students the opportunity to interact with experts in their areas of research through travel and through seminars and workshops with leading scientists. The lack of opportunity for such activity has been identified as one of the barriers to research in the state. This proposal addresses three of the objectives of the Mississippi Advanced Development EPSCoR Program: (a) to create a critical mass of scientists by implementing inter-institutional links; (b) to strengthen the scientific community by working with other ongoing programs and by stimulating the human resource pool in the state to become actively involved in the research and education process; and (c) to establish technology transfer to appropriate user groups by developing stronger research links with other research communities and by creating mechanisms for commercial linkages and support of university-based research. The Mississippi EPSCoR initiative is designed to provide for the specific needs of the students and faculty of individual components within the program. These activities target faculty who will either travel to appropriate industries or participate in campus seminars conducted by invited scientists and consultants. They also target students involved in the EPSCoR research as well as students at other universities in the state and region. The seven enhancement designs are summarized as follows: - Faculty interaction with corporations involved in related research in and involvement in technical meetings on polymeric adhesion and composite materials; - Faculty interaction with corporations and laboratories dealing in composite fabrication and in short courses in stress analysis; - Faculty interaction with corporations and laboratories for knowledge exchange in non-destructive evaluation (NDE), in development of numerical models simulating NDE processes, and in analysis of ultrasonic signals; use of external consultants with expertise in ultrasonic acoustic signal processing; - A three-day symposium and workshop for state and regional investigators and students with leading scientists in state-of-the-art solution, solid state and micro- imaging nuclear magnetic resonance experiments; - Faculty and student travel for professional conferences; planned conference on computational chemistry with recognized speakers; - Undergraduate research opportunities for visiting students; research assistance for new EPSCoR faculty with competence in physical chemistry of surfaces; - A series of ten seminars with invited scientists addressing spectroscopic interrogation of transient species in chemical and biological systems for faculty and graduate students.