REU Site: Solar Physics Program at Montana State University

REU 站点：蒙大拿州立大学太阳物理项目

• 批准号: 0552958
• 负责人: David McKenzie
• 金额: $ 58.42万
• 依托单位: Montana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0552958&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Solar; Physics; Program

The proposers presented a plan to continue an ongoing Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program at Montana State University (MSU) in solar physics, involving student analysis of data from space missions such as Yohkoh, SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory), TRACE (Transition Region And Coronal Explorer), and RHESSI (Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager), as well as from ground-based observatories. The Principal Investigators (PIs) target undergraduates majoring in physics, mathematics, and computer sciences. The program provides solar physics research opportunities for students through an introductory course in solar physics, lectures by visiting scholars, independent research projects carried out with a faculty mentor, and web publication of the students' final reports. Student research projects frequently result in joint professional publications or presentations with the MSU faculty mentor. This MSU REU program provides an important service to the discipline of solar physics, since the subject is being taught at relatively few United States colleges and universities. The PIs are successful in recruiting women (achieving a 3-to-1 female-to-male ratio in 2005) and participate in three programs for Native American students and teachers. MSU now plans to recruit other minorities and to add an ethics component to this project. Their program offers other benefits to society through its strong space weather component. Past participants have reported that the exposure to professional research in a university environment helped them to decide whether to continue their education in graduate school, and whether to pursue solar physics research as a profession.

提议者提出了一项计划，继续在蒙大拿州立大学（MSU）进行太阳物理学本科生研究经验（REU）计划，涉及学生分析来自Yohkoh、SOHO（太阳和日光层观测台）、TRACE（过渡区和日冕探测器）和RHESSI（拉马迪高能太阳光谱成像仪）等空间飞行任务以及地面观测台的数据。主要研究者（PI）的目标是物理，数学和计算机科学专业的本科生。该项目通过太阳物理学入门课程、访问学者讲座、与教师导师一起开展的独立研究项目以及学生最终报告的网络发布，为学生提供太阳物理学研究机会。学生的研究项目经常导致联合专业出版物或介绍与密歇根州立大学教师导师。这个MSU REU计划为太阳物理学学科提供了重要的服务，因为该主题在相对较少的美国学院和大学中教授。土著人民协会成功地招募了妇女（2005年实现了3比1的男女比例），并参加了三个针对美洲土著学生和教师的方案。密西根州立大学现在计划招募其他少数民族，并在这个项目中增加一个道德部分。他们的计划通过其强大的空间天气组成部分为社会提供了其他好处。过去的参与者报告说，在大学环境中接触专业研究有助于他们决定是否继续在研究生院接受教育，以及是否将太阳物理学研究作为一种职业。