Chemical Engineering Research Experiences for Undergraduates

建议没有。摘要在过去的四年里，由于美国国家科学基金会对我们REU网站的支持，我们建立并维持了一个高质量的项目，吸引了许多有能力和积极进取的学生，他们来自主要的本科学院和研究型大学，进入一个活跃的研究环境。我们项目的大多数REU实习生已经完成了本科学位，进入了各种研究生课程（88%的非裔美国人，79%的主要本科院校的学生）。我们正在申请3年的支持，以继续我们在匹兹堡大学化学和石油工程系的nsf支持的REU站点（15名暑期实习生）。我们的目标是将工程和科学专业的本科生，特别是小型高校的化学工程、化学和生物专业的本科生引入研究活动。我们的教育理念是我们的课程所基于的，包括动手实验室实验，由教师导师提供建议和指导，并通过研讨会和参观工业实验室以及课外社会互动来丰富。我们计划继续从西宾夕法尼亚地区及周边地区的大量学院和大学，历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）招募学生，并从主要的本科院校（至少50%）和研究型大学招收大量学生。

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.