REU Site: Applying the Tools of Physics to Contemporary Problems in Science and Engineering

REU 网站：将物理学工具应用于当代科学和工程问题

• 批准号: 0647885
• 负责人: Gary Gladding
• 金额: $ 23.04万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-04-01 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0647885&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Applying; Tools; Physics

This award supports an REU site at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The ten week program involves Physics research projects in condensed matter physics, materials physics, biological physics, nuclear and high-energy physics, astrophysics, atomic physics, computational physics, and complex systems. The program introduces undergraduate students to the broad range of problems in science and engineering that can be addressed using the tools of physics. The REU projects are original research exercises intimately related to ongoing faculty research at the cutting edge of physics. Students write code that is subsequently used in real experiments, they design and test components for real instruments, and they analyze real data. Projects are challenging but "doable" and are designed to achieve measurable accomplishments in the 10-week time frame. A wide range of research activities are supported so that participants receive an engaging introduction to the breadth of forefront research opportunities in the major subdisciplines of physics. In addition to research skills, undergraduates receive valuable training in technical communications skills, teamwork skills, and research ethics, and information and discussion on career choices. The program will also work to ensure student progress and success by assigning a graduate student or postdoc in the individual research groups as a personal "mentor" in addition to the faculty adviser, scheduling frequent and regular student-faculty interactions, and promoting collegial relationships among the REU students and the larger Physics community at Illinois. Students will present three oral reports during the program: a 5-min introductory talk during the first week; an informal 10-15-min "progress" report during the sixth week, and a formal APS-style presentation in the final week. Talented undergraduate students from academic institutions having limited research programs in physics will be especially recruited and encouraged to apply, as are students who are members of historically under-represented minority groups.

该奖项支持伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的REU网站。 该计划为期十周，涉及凝聚态物理，材料物理，生物物理，核和高能物理，天体物理，原子物理，计算物理和复杂系统的物理研究项目。 该计划向本科生介绍了可以使用物理工具解决的科学和工程领域的广泛问题。REU项目是与物理学前沿正在进行的教师研究密切相关的原创研究活动。 学生编写代码，随后用于真实的实验，他们设计和测试组件的真实的仪器，他们分析真实的数据。项目具有挑战性，但“可行”，旨在在10周的时间框架内取得可衡量的成就。广泛的研究活动得到支持，使参与者获得一个从事介绍前沿研究的机会在物理学的主要分支学科的广度。 除了研究技能，本科生在技术沟通技能，团队合作技能，研究道德，信息和职业选择的讨论接受宝贵的培训。 该计划还将努力确保学生的进步和成功，通过分配研究生或博士后在个人研究小组作为个人“导师”除了教师顾问，安排频繁和定期的师生互动，并促进REU学生之间的合议关系和更大的物理社区在伊利诺伊州。学生将在课程期间提出三个口头报告：第一周5分钟的介绍性演讲;第六周10-15分钟的非正式“进展”报告，以及最后一周正式的APS风格的演示。 来自物理学研究项目有限的学术机构的有才华的本科生将被特别招募并鼓励申请，历史上代表性不足的少数群体的学生也是如此。