REU Site: Systems Approach to Sustainability: Manufacturing, Water and Energy

该合同为亚利桑那大学一个为期三年的REU站点提供支持。通过这种专注于可持续发展的REU经验，本科生将从事具有挑战性的前沿研究项目，并将接触到全球挑战。该计划的具体目标包括：1)让学生接触基础科学和工程研究，提高可持续产品和工艺设计；2)引入系统级框架，实现可持续的工程基础设施；3)通过由教师导师、研究生和工业和/或政府导师组成的团队监督的项目，提供动手实验经验和最先进设施的培训；4)展示如何开展国际工业/大学/政府合作研究项目，以实现创新解决方案和技术进步；5)提高对工业职业和研究生院机会的认识；6)提供可持续发展的全球和多学科视角；7)提高学生的书面和口头沟通能力；8)增加对工程学科感兴趣的学生的多样性。正如世界各地的几所大学现在认识到的那样，可持续发展是一个全球性问题。两家领先的国际大学合作伙伴将与亚利桑那大学的研究人员一起，在重点优势领域提供卓越的REU机会。新加坡国立大学在半导体技术方面进行着领先的研究，并且由于许多半导体公司在中国、马来西亚和整个地区都有制造工厂，因此新加坡国立大学的地理位置具有战略意义。位于布里斯班的昆士兰大学（UQ）最近建立了几个重要的跨学科研究中心，包括矿物工业中的水中心、可持续矿物研究所、功能纳米材料中心和澳大利亚生物工程和纳米技术研究所。这个REU项目将鼓励本科生参加研究生院，并考虑未来的研究或技术职业。招聘工作将针对代表性不足的少数民族和妇女。

EEC-0649202Kimberly L. OgdenThis award provides support for a three-year REU Site at the University of Arizona. Through this REU experience that focuses on sustainability the undergraduate students will engage in challenging cutting-edge research projects and will be exposed to global challenges. Specific objectives of the program include: 1) exposing students to fundamental scientific and engineering research that enhances sustainable product and process design; 2) introducing systems-level frameworks that lead to sustainable engineered infrastructures; 3) providing hands-on laboratory experience and training in state-of-the-art facilities through projects supervised by a team of faculty mentors, graduate students and industrial and/or government mentors; 4) demonstrating how international industrial/university/government collaborative research projects are conducted to achieve innovative solutions and technological advances; 5) increasing awareness of industrial careers and graduate school opportunities; 6) providing a global and multi-disciplinary perspective on sustainability; 7) enhancing the written and oral communication skills of the students; and 8) increasing the diversity of students interested in engineering disciplines.Sustainability is a global issue, as several universities throughout the world are now recognizing. Two leading international university partners will join with the University of Arizona researchers to provide exceptional REU opportunities in focused areas of strength. The National University of Singapore is conducting leading-edge research in semiconductor technology and is strategically located since many semiconductor companies have manufacturing facilities in China, Malaysia, and throughout the region. The University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane has recently established several key interdisciplinary research centers including the Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry, the Sustainable Minerals Institute, Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, and the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.This REU program will encourage undergraduates to attend graduate school and to consider future careers in research or technology. Recruitment efforts will be targeted to underrepresented minorities and women.