RUI: San Jose State/IBM Almaden Center Integrated Research and Education Program

本科院校研究（RUI）项目由分析和表面化学项目作为与工业界学术联络的资助机会（GOALI）活动支持，结合圣何塞州立大学（SJSU）和IBM阿尔马登研究中心（IBM/ARC）的智力和物质资源，为本科生、研究生、高中化学教师的综合研究和教育计划侧重于材料的分析化学和表面化学。在这项为期36个月的标准资助期内，Pesek和Scharberg教授以及他们在上海州立大学化学系、物理系和材料工程系的9位同事将与IBM/ARC的22位同行一起，共同指导22名本科生、研究生、小型学院教师和高中化学教师，他们将从事材料化学的基础和应用研究项目。每位参与者都将在上海州立大学和IBM/ARC的实验室工作，从而使他们能够获得学术和工业研究的视角，以及工业-学术合作如何使两个组织受益。这个学术-工业综合研究和教育计划建立在这些组织的开创性工作的基础上，这些组织得到了美国国家科学基金会（NSF）资助CHE-9300131。这种合作研究活动的参与者将对基础科学研究和应用科学研究有更好的认识，这将鼓励学生追求更高的学位，鼓励小型大学教师在其本国机构发起或更积极地开展项目，从而与学生分享研究和发现的兴奋，并鼓励高中教师激励更多的学生将科学作为一种职业。

This Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) project, supported in the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program as a Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) activity, combines intellectual and physical resources of San Jose State University (SJSU) and the IBM Almaden Research Center (IBM/ARC) to offer undergraduate students, graduate students, and high school chemistry teachers an integrated research and education program that focusses on the analytical and surface chemistry of materials. During the tenure of this thirty-six month standard grant, Professors Pesek and Scharberg and nine of their SJSU colleagues in the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Engineering will join with twenty-two of their counterparts at IBM/ARC to jointly mentor a total of twenty-two undergraduates, graduate students, small college faculty, and high school chemistry teachers as they pursue fundamental and applied research projects in materials chemistry. Each of the participants will spend time working in laboratories both at SJSU and IBM/ARC, thereby enabling them to gain a perspective on academic as well as industrial research, and how industrial- academic cooperation can benefit the two organizations. This academic-industrial integrated research and education program builds upon the pioneering work of these organizations that was supported under NSF grant CHE-9300131. Participants in this cooperative research activity will gain an enhanced appreciation of basic and applied scientific research which should encourage the students to pursue more advanced degrees, the small college faculty to initiate or more actively pursue projects at their home institutions and thereby share the excitement of research and discovery with their students, and the high school teachers to motivate more of their own students to consider science as a career.