IRES: U.S.-Hungary Research and Education on Microfluidics Applications in the Chemical and Materials Sciences

OISE 0754138戈麦斯这个国际研究经验的学生（IRES）活动链接在加州州立大学-洛杉矶由弗兰克A。戈麦斯与匈牙利德布勒森大学的同行。 首席研究员Gomez和他的同事James Rudd也在加州州立大学，他们将与匈牙利合作伙伴Attila Gaspar和Lajos Daroczi合作，管理一种平衡的，基于团队的方法，为本科生和研究生提供微流体应用的坚实背景。 这将通过审查化学、材料科学和化学相关学科之间的问题来实现，目的是展示科学的跨学科性质和国际合作的价值。该项目将为三名美国本科生和一名研究生提供研究经验，他们将前往德布勒森，与美国和匈牙利的导师一起完成指定的项目通过参加合作研究、研讨会、演讲和职业讲习班，促进他们的专业发展。 该IRES计划的指导学生项目包括：1）微流控芯片的设计和制造，2）使用显微镜和阀门和泵技术测试泄漏和堵塞; 3）芯片实验和亲和毛细管电泳（ACE）数据分析，4）使用化学计量学进行优化研究和5）分离比较。研究结果应该会导致两种在分析化学中有用的微流体技术的改进：基于磁铁的阀门和色谱柱。这个美国-匈牙利IRES合作实现了发展全球科学家和工程师的计划目标，使美国和欧洲的专家能够联合收割机互补人才，并在共同感兴趣和能力强的领域共享研究和教育资源。更广泛的影响包括向美国学生，包括从社区学院招募的学生，介绍微流体系统的国际专业知识，这是一个与药物诊断相关的领域。IRES的教育价值在于学生参与导师的前沿研究，并在职业生涯早期接触到与环境和药理学问题国际合作相关的好处。

OISE 0754138GomezThis International Research Experience for Students (IRES) activity links a team at the California State University- Los Angeles led by Frank A. Gomez with counterparts from Debrecen University in Hungary. Principal Investigator Gomez and his colleague James Rudd, also at California State University, will work with Hungarian partners, Attila Gaspar and Lajos Daroczi, to manage a balanced, team-based approach that provides undergraduate and graduate-level students with a solid background in microfluidic applications. This will be accomplished by examining problems at the interface of chemistry, materials science and chemistry-related disciplines with the goal of demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of science and the value of international collaboration.Annually, this IRES program will provide research experience for three U.S. undergraduate students and one graduate student who will travel to Debrecen to work with U.S. and Hungarian mentors on assigned projects that contribute to their professional development through participation in cooperative research, seminars, presentations, and career workshops. The guided student projects for this IRES program involve: 1) design and fabrication of microfluidic chips, 2) testing for leakage and blockage using the microscope and valve and pump techniques; 3) experiments on the chips and analysis of affinity capillary electrophoresis ( ACE) data, 4) use of chemometrics for optimization studies and 5) comparison of separations. Results should lead to refinements for two microfluidic technologies useful in analytical chemistry: a magnet-based valve and a chromatography column. This U.S.-Hungary IRES collaboration fulfills the program objective of developing global scientists and engineers by enabling experts in the United States and Europe to combine complementary talents and share research and education resources in an area of strong mutual interest and competence. Broader impacts include the introduction of U.S. students, including students recruited from community colleges, to international expertise on microfluidic systems, an area relevant to pharmaceutical diagnostics. The educational value of the IRES rests with the students' involvement in their mentors' cutting-edge research and early career exposure to the benefits associated with international cooperation on environmental and pharmacological problems.