REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Program for Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB) in Nanoscale Science and Engineering

REU网站摘要：加州大学伯克利分校纳米科学与工程约翰逊(Superb)的夏季本科工程研究计划(Superb)，0552948加州大学伯克利分校的多学科纳米科学与工程(NSE)计划和代表不足工程学生中心(CUES)将在三年内每年支持10名本科生，作为正在进行的伯克利工程研究夏季本科计划(Superb)的一部分。Superb为本科生提供了通过与教员和研究生导师在他们感兴趣的领域进行研究项目合作来获得研究经验的机会。除了研究工作，参与者还将参与许多其他活动。每周将为优秀学生举行学术支持会议，提供有关研究生院招生和奖学金、时间管理、研究方法、演示文稿和其他相关主题的技术报告的信息。此外，还计划对当地工业设施和国家实验室进行实地考察。该项目在为期一天的论坛上达到高潮，学生们在论坛上向他们的教职员工和研究生导师以及工程界的其他成员做演讲。每个学生都需要书面报告，并进行汇编以供分发。之所以选择纳米科学与工程的拟议研究重点，是因为它越来越受到本科生的欢迎，对学术界和工业界都具有重要的战略意义。在过去的几十年里，前所未有的技术进步已经影响到我们的日常生活，包括通信、计算、能源、交通和医学，仅举几例。这些进步源于创造和定制微米结构材料和设备的能力不断提高。理论预测，当结构缩小到纳米尺寸时，戏剧性的变化将继续下去。然而，现有的科学和工程原理不足以应对这一挑战。为了应对这一挑战，该计划侧重于新型功能器件和系统的纳米结构合成和加工、纳米尺度的表征和建模。这些组件中的每一个都有助于将这些纳米结构集成到工程系统中，这些系统可大致分为五类：纳米电子学、纳米光子学、纳米生物学、纳米磁学和纳米机械。SUPERB旨在通过让学生接触到纳米科学和工程尖端领域的研究来增加未被充分代表的学生攻读高级研究生学位的数量。Superb已被证明是在国家需要的研究领域培养有竞争力的研究生候选人的关键项目。

Abstract for REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Program for Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB) in Nanoscale Science and Engineering Johnson, 0552948The multidisciplinary Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NSE) Program and the Center for Underrepresented Engineering Students (CUES) at the University of California at Berkeley will support 10 undergraduate students each year for three years as part of the ongoing Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB). SUPERB offers undergraduate students the opportunity to gain research experience by working with a faculty member and graduate student mentor on a research project in their area of interest. In addition to the research work, participants will be involved in a number of other activities. Weekly academic support meetings will be held for SUPERB students, providing information on graduate school admissions and fellowships, time management, research methodology, presentations and technical report presentations on other related topics. Also, field trips are planned to local industrial facilities and national laboratories. The program culminates in a daylong forum in which students make presentations to their faculty and graduate student mentors, and other members of the engineering community. Written reports are required of each student and are compiled for dissemination. The proposed research focus in Nanoscale Science and Engineering was chosen as it is becoming increasingly popular with undergraduate students and is strategically important to both academia and industry. Unprecedented technological advances in the past decades have impacted our daily lives, including communications, computation, energy, transportation and medicine, to name a few. These advances result from an ever-improving ability to create and tailor micrometer-structured materials and devices. Theory predicts that dramatic changes will continue when structures are scaled down to nanometer size. However, existing scientific and engineering principles are inadequate for this challenge. In order to address this challenge, the program focuses on nanostructure synthesis and processing of novel functional devices and systems, nanoscale characterization and modeling. Each of these components facilitates the integration of these nanostructures into engineered systems that can be broadly characterized into five categories: nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, nanobiology, nanomagnetics and naomechanics.SUPERB aims to increase the number of underrepresented student who pursue advanced graduate degrees by exposing students to the excitement of research in the cutting-edge field of Nanoscale Science and Engineering. SUPERB has proven itself to be a critical program for developing competitive graduate candidates in research areas of national need.