REU Site - Summer Internships in Nanomaterials and Nanomechanics

该合同为位于费耶特维尔的阿肯色大学（UA）的一个为期三年的REU站点提供支持。该项目每年将招收9名本科生，为期三年，为期10周。REU网站专注于纳米材料和纳米力学。本科生将接触到前沿问题，这将刺激和挑战他们。总体目标是：1)吸引参与者参与纳米尺度工程研究；2)允许本科生自我评估自己对研究生的兴趣；3)增加未来纳米材料和纳米力学专业人才的数量；4)使阿肯色大学费耶特维尔分校的机械工程系成为并被公认为全国一流的本科和研究生项目。REU计划包括研讨会和讲习班，让参与者接触纳米工程以及专业发展，重点是研究和研究生学习。为了提高参与者的研究经验，将有补充的社会活动，如参观区域研究/工业设施，野炊和团体郊游到当地感兴趣的地区。由于招收的本科学生来自研究基础有限的院校、少数族裔院校、未被充分代表的少数族裔、妇女和残疾人士，因此该研究中心的影响更为广泛。此外，该项目独特地整合了现有的UA项目，涉及非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔学生，阿肯色州高中生和荣誉学生。这些本科生参与纳米材料和纳米力学方面令人兴奋的研究，提高了他们考虑研究生学习的可能性，并扩大了国家技术人力的基础。该奖项由刺激竞争性研究实验计划（EHR/EPSCoR）共同资助。

EEC-06478874Matthew GordonThe award provides support for a three-year REU Site at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (UA). The program will engage 9 undergraduate students each year for three years in a 10-week summer program. The REU Site focuses on Nanomaterials and Nanomechanics. The undergraduate students will be exposed to cutting-edge problems that will stimulate and challenge them. The overall objectives are: 1) to engage the participants in nanoscale engineering research; 2) to allow the undergraduate students to self-assess their interest in graduate school; 3) to increase the number of future professionals in nanomaterials and nanomechanics; and 4) to enable the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville to become, and be recognized as, a nationally top tier undergraduate and graduate program.The REU program includes seminars and workshops to expose participants to nanoscale engineering as well as professional development, with an emphasis on research and graduate studies. To enhance the participant's research experience there will be complementary social activities, such as, tours of regional research/industrial facilities, cookouts, and group outings to local areas of interest.The Broader Impacts of this REU site arise from the recruitment of undergraduate students from institutions with a limited research base, minority institutions, underrepresented minorities, women and persons with disabilities. In addition, this program uniquely integrates with existing UA programs involving Afro-American and Hispanic students, Arkansas high school students and honors students. The involvement of these undergraduate students in exciting research in nanomaterials and nanomechanics enhances the likelihood that they will consider post-graduate study and broaden the base of the Nation's technical manpower. This award is co-funded by the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EHR/EPSCoR).