REU Site in Chemical Engineering at the Nanoscale

该奖项为康涅狄格大学纳米尺度化学工程的一个为期3年的REU站点提供资金，该站点由约瑟夫·J·赫尔布尔博士指导。这个为期10周的暑期计划将为来自其他机构的10名化学工程本科生提供机会，与化学工程学院合作，开展强调纳米级化学工程的项目。由于所有教员都是校园主要跨学科研究中心的参与者，学生们将有机会获得技术人员协助的分析化学、表面科学和生物技术方面的最先进仪器，以进行他们的研究。将在全国范围内进行招聘，特别强调当地的小型学院和波多黎各大学。除了实验室研究经验外，还将通过会议、讨论、简短的书面总结和夏末REU研究研讨会来强调沟通技能的发展。丰富的研讨会计划还将通过工厂之行和工业科学家的演讲，提供关于纳米技术日益发展的重要性的实用视角，并将通过由教师主持的特别讨论计划和由美国科学促进会(AAAS)科学自由、责任和法律计划主任领导的半天研讨会，强调对科学伦理问题的认识。

This award provides funding for a 3-year REU Site in Chemical Engineering at the Nanoscale, at the University of Connecticut, under the direction of Dr. Joseph J. Helble. This 10-week summer program will provide 10 chemical engineering undergraduate students from other institutions with the opportunity to work with chemical engineering faculty on projects that emphasize chemical engineering at the nanoscale. Because all of the faculty are participants in major interdisciplinary research centers on campus, students will have access to technician-assisted state of the art instrumentation in analytical chemistry, surface science, and biotechnology for their research. Recruiting will be done nationally with a special emphasis on local small colleges and the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez. In addition to the laboratory research experience, communication skills development will be stressed through meetings, discussions, short written summaries, and an end-of-summer REU Research Symposium. A rich seminar program will also provide a practical perspective on the developing importance of nanotechnology through a plant trip and lectures by industrial scientists, and will stress recognition of issues of scientific ethics through a special program of faculty-moderated discussions and a half-day workshop led by the Director of the Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).