CAREER: Dynamic Optimal Control of Groundwater Remediation

这个奖项是为了支持这位研究者根据NSF 94-101（美国国家科学基金会教师早期职业发展（Career）计划）的要求而设立的，该计划旨在鼓励作为教育者和研究者的学术教师的早期发展。该研究员计划进行的研究旨在建立一种有效的优化设计算法，用于净化被有害物质污染的含水层中的水。调查员的教育计划包括培养教授工程课程的有效技能，并利用这些技能丰富她将负责教授的课程。她的目标是让学生达到一定的理解水平，使他们能够分析与含水层净化有关的问题，并针对这些问题设计适当的工程解决方案。该研究者的研究结果可能会改进用于净化地下水的工程设计方法。她的教学计划有望提高女性和少数族裔对工程学的参与度。＊＊＊

9501906 Culver This is an award to provide the support this investigator requested in response to NSF 94-101, the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program which has the intent of encouraging the early development of academic faculty as educators and researchers. The research this investigator plans to conduct is directed toward establishing an efficient optimal design algorithm for decontamination of water in aquifers that have been contaminated with hazardous materials. The investigator's education plan involves development of effective skills for teaching engineering courses and to use those skills to enrich courses she will be responsible for teaching. Her goal is to bring students to a level of understanding that allows them to analyze problems relating to decontamination of aquifers and to design appropriative engineering solutions to those problems. Results of this investigator's research are likely to improve the approaches taken toward engineering design of procedures for decontaminating groundwater. Her teaching plan is expected to result in increased participation in engineering by women and under-represented minorities. ***