Chemical Engineering Research Experiences for Undergraduates

建议编号：9732421 PI：阿泰大学：匹兹堡大学摘要在过去的四年里，由于国家科学基金会对我们的REU网站的支持，我们建立并维持了一个高质量的项目，吸引了许多来自本科院校和研究型大学的有能力和高度上进的学生进入活跃的研究环境。我们项目的大多数REU实习生，他们已经完成了本科学位，都进入了各种研究生课程(88%的非裔美国人，79%的学生主要是本科院校的学生)。我们请求三年的支持，以继续我们的国家科学基金会支持的REU网站(15名暑期实习生)在匹兹堡大学化学和石油工程系。我们的目标是引进工科本科生，特别是小型高校化学工程、化学、生物专业的本科生参加研究活动。我们的教育理念包括由教师导师提供建议和指导的动手实验室实验，并通过研讨会和参观工业实验室以及课外社交活动来丰富我们的教育理念。我们计划继续从宾夕法尼亚州西部地区及其周边的大量学院和大学，即历史上的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)招生，并从主要本科院校(至少50%)招收大量学生，其余部分从研究型大学招生。

Proposal No.: 9732421 PI: Ataai University: U of Pittsburgh ABSTRACT As the result of NSF support of our REU site in the last four years, we have built and sustained a high-quality program that has attracted many capable and highly motivated students from primarily undergraduate colleges as well as research universities, into an active research environment. Most of the REU interns of our program, who have completed their undergraduate degree, have entered various graduate programs (88% of African Americans, and 79% of students from the primarily undergraduate institutions). We are requesting 3 years of support to continue our NSF-Supported REU site (15 summer interns) in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Our goal is to introduce undergraduates from engineering and the sciences, especially undergraduates majoring in chemical engineering, chemistry, and biology at small colleges and universities to research activities. Our educational philosophy upon which our program is based includes hands-on laboratory experimentation with advice and guidance supplied by a faculty mentor, and enriched by seminars and visits to industrial laboratories, as well as extracurricular social interactions. We plan to continue recruiting from a great number of colleges and universities in and around the Western Pennsylvania region, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and to enroll a large number of students from the primarily undergraduate institutions (at least 50%) and the balance from research universities.