REU Site in Chemical Engineering at the Nanoscale

该奖项为康涅狄格大学纳米级化学工程REU项目提供了为期3年的资金，由Joseph J. Helble博士指导。这个为期10周的暑期项目将为来自其他机构的10名化学工程本科学生提供机会，与化学工程教师一起研究纳米级化学工程的项目。因为所有的教师都是学校主要跨学科研究中心的参与者，学生将有机会在分析化学、表面科学和生物技术方面获得技术人员协助的最先进的仪器进行研究。招聘将在全国范围内进行，特别强调当地的小型学院和波多黎各马亚圭斯大学。除了实验室研究经验外，沟通技巧的发展将通过会议、讨论、简短的书面总结和夏季末的REU研究研讨会来强调。丰富的研讨会计划还将通过工厂之旅和工业科学家的讲座，为纳米技术发展的重要性提供一个实用的视角，并将通过教师主持的讨论和由美国科学促进会（AAAS）科学自由、责任和法律计划主任主持的半天研讨会，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).