Interdisciplinary Research and Education: Statistics/Chemical Engineering

跨学科研究与教育：统计/化学工程

• 批准号: 9721416
• 负责人: Wojbor Woyczynski
• 金额: $ 8万
• 依托单位: Case Western Reserve University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-07-01 至 1999-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9721416&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interdisciplinary; Research; Education; Statistics; Chemical

An interdisciplinary research and education project between the Statistics Department at the CWRU College of Arts and Sciences, and the Chemical Engineering Department at the CWRU Case School of Engineering is being proposed. Its principal component is Professor Woyczynski's residence in the Chemical Engineering Department during his 1998/99 sabbatical, with Professor J. Adin Mann playing the role of a host. This residence will be a part of, and will help to jump start a broader collaborative effort in research and education being developed by Professor Woyczynski on the Statistics side, and Professors Jay Mann, John Angus and Phil Morrison on the Chemical Engineering side. Professor Woyczynski's expected duties will include three components: (a) A joint research program to help in the development of a virtual integrated prototyping and synchroneous manufacturing/control of vapor/plasma deposition processes for thin and thick films of wide band gap semiconductors, such as gallium nitride and diamond. The proposed control design will be model-based, and the main effort will be directed at a detailed study of the required interfacial growth models. (b) Design of undegraduate statistics courses to fit chemical engineering needs, including creation of interactive, Mathematica-based, chemical engineering-oriented computer packages, to complement the about-to-be-published text "Introductory Statistics and Random Phenomena: Uncertainty, Complexity, and Chaotic Behavior in Engineering and Science" (joint with M. Denker, Birkhauser, 1998, 505 pp.). (c) Creation of a framework for joint recruitment, supervision, and job placement of statistics and chemical engineering graduate and, more generally, materials science, students; initiation of the writing process of a graduate text on random media for that population. The PI's expectation is that his residence at the Chemical Engineering Department will produce lasting impact on the research and educational en vironment at CWRU and beyond, including: -Development of new statistical and mathematical tools needed in the virtual integrated prototyping of thin films. Without such tools the optimization of such processes does not seem to be feasible; -Direct application of these tools to the practical issues related to the design of plasma reactors for vapor deposition of such films, including development of industrial-strength software for that purpose. The latter will be done jointly with industrial software vendors, such as ControlSoft Inc., of Cleveland, Ohio, and CFD Research Corp. of Huntsville, AL, that collaborate with the Chemical Engineering department. -Development and fine tuning of statistics courses well adapted to the needs of undergraduate students majoring in materials sciences and engineering. The hope is that this will increase the attractiveness and relevance (as measured by enrollment) of such courses. The publication of the Uncertainty book should have an impact on the way statistics is taught to engineering and science students nationwide. -Creation of an interdisciplinary environment for graduate students would attract new types of students to the program, but more importantly, would improve the marketability of new Ph.D.'s and their flexibility in the job market. The PI plans to apply the acquired expertise to broaden experience and career options of the students by: - Developing and fine-tuning statistics courses to fit the needs of chemical engineering and other materials sciences undergraduate students. - Developing chemical engineering oriented packages and modules for the Uncertainty book. -Writing a graduate level book on random media. -Developing a formal framework for joint advisorship and rotation of Ph.D. level students between the Statistics and Chemical Engineering Departments. -To widen the employment opportunities for undergraduate students with interdisciplinary training, special co-op programs will be pu rsued with selected industrial companies that indicated interest in broadly educated statistics and engineering students. This IGMS project is jointly supported by the MPS Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (OMA) and the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS).

正在提议CWRU艺术与科学学院统计系和CWRU案例工程学院化学工程系之间的跨学科研究和教育项目。其主要组成部分是Woyczynski教授在1998/99年休假期间在化学工程系的住所，J. Adin Mann教授担任东道主。 这个住所将是一部分，并将有助于启动一个更广泛的合作努力，在研究和教育正在开发的教授Woyczynski在统计方面，和教授杰伊曼，约翰安格斯和菲尔莫里森在化学工程方面。 Woyczynski教授的预期职责将包括三个组成部分： (a)一项联合研究计划，以帮助发展一个 气相/等离子体沉积工艺的虚拟集成原型和同步制造/控制， 宽带隙半导体的薄膜和厚膜，例如氮化镓和金刚石。 拟议的控制设计将是基于模型的，主要工作将是针对所需的界面生长模型的详细研究。 (b)设计本科生统计课程，以适应化学工程的需要，包括创建交互式，数学为基础，化学工程为导向的计算机软件包，以补充即将出版的文本“统计学和随机现象：不确定性，复杂性和混沌行为在工程和科学”（与M。Denker，Birkhauser，1998，505页）。 (c)创建一个框架，用于统计和化学工程研究生以及更普遍的材料科学学生的联合招聘，监督和就业安置;为该人群启动随机媒体上的研究生文本的写作过程。 PI的期望是，他在化学工程系的住所将对CWRU及以后的研究和教育设施产生持久的影响，包括： - 开发薄膜虚拟集成原型所需的新的统计和数学工具。 没有这些工具，优化这些进程似乎是不可行的; - 将这些工具直接应用于与等离子体反应器的设计有关的实际问题，以气相沉积这种薄膜，包括为此目的开发工业强度的软件。 后者将与ControlSoft Inc.等工业软件供应商联合完成，和计算流体力学研究公司的亨茨维尔，俄亥俄州，与化学工程系合作。 - 发展和微调统计课程，以适应材料科学和工程专业本科生的需要。 希望这将增加这些课程的吸引力和相关性（以入学人数衡量）。 《不确定性》一书的出版应该会对全国范围内向工程和科学学生教授统计学的方式产生影响。 - 为研究生创造跨学科的环境将吸引新类型的学生加入该计划，但更重要的是，将提高新博士的市场竞争力。以及他们在就业市场上的灵活性。 PI计划通过以下方式应用所获得的专业知识来拓宽学生的经验和职业选择： - 开发和微调统计课程，以适应化学工程和其他材料科学本科生的需求。 - 为《不确定性》一书开发面向化学工程的软件包和模块。 - 写一本关于随机媒体的研究生水平的书。 - 为博士学位的联合授予和轮换制定正式框架。统计系和化学工程系之间的学生水平。 - 为了扩大跨学科培训的本科生的就业机会，将与选定的工业公司合作，这些公司表示对受过广泛教育的统计学和工程学学生感兴趣。 该IGMS项目由MPS多学科活动办公室（OMA）和数学科学部（DMS）共同支持。