REU Site: Internships in Nanosystems Science, Engineering and Technology (INSET)

加州大学圣巴巴拉分校（UCSB）为期三年的REU网站项目名为“纳米系统科学、工程和技术实习”（INSET），将为社区大学生创造教育和研究机会，通过多层次的指导，促进他们未来在科学和工程领域的学术和职业成功。INSET计划的目标是：(1)鼓励社区大学生通过发展调查、沟通和合作方面的专业科学技能，追求研究事业；(2)促进不同群体的社区大学学生成功转入四年制大学，并鼓励他们攻读研究生教育；(3)通过校园范围内的培训研讨会和网络，培育研究导师的专业发展；(4)提高研究型大学对社区学院转学生的支持能力。INSET项目将由加州纳米系统研究所主办，该研究所通过整合生物和电子材料的纳米级构建块，探索形成新材料和复杂系统的丰富机会。该计划的参与者将获得在科学和工程学科传统界限之外的尖端技术开发方面的实践经验。此外，INSET计划将与纳米技术与社会中心合作，该中心将吸引学生参与新技术的社会影响的讨论和研究项目。这种合作将培养学生和研究人员进行广泛的多学科研究的能力，不仅涉及自然科学和工程，还涉及社会科学和数学。INSET的招生工作将建立在与加州社区大学建立的关系上，这些社区大学有大量未被充分代表和弱势群体。该项目将提高其他机构支持社区学院转学生的能力，方法是提高成绩优异的社区学院学生的知名度，推广成功的大学/社区学院合作模式，并通过出版物和专业会议传播INSET评估结果。

EEC-0754874Evelyn L. HuThis three year REU Site program at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) entitled" Internships in Nanosystems Science, Engineering, and Technology" (INSET), will create education and research opportunities for community college students, promoting their future academic and career success in science and engineering through multi-tiered mentorship. The objectives of the INSET program aim to: (1) encourage community college students' pursuit of research careers through the development of professional scientific skills in investigation, communication and collaboration; (2) promote the successful transfer of a diverse cohort of community college students to 4-year institutions, and encourage their pursuit of graduate education; (3) nurture the professional development of research mentors through campus-wide training workshops and networking; and (4) enhance the capacity of research universities to support community college transfer students.The INSET program will be hosted by the California NanoSystems Institute where research explores the richness of opportunities in forming new materials and complex systems by integrating nanoscale building blocks from both biological and electronic materials. Participants in this program will gain hands-on experience in the development of cutting-edge technologies that fall outside the traditional boundaries of science and engineering disciplines. Additionally, the INSET program will collaborate with the Center for Nanotechnology and Society, which will engage students in discussions and research projects on the societal impacts of new technologies. This collaboration will foster students' and researchers' abilities to enable broadly multi-disciplinary research, engaging not only the natural sciences and engineering, but also social sciences and mathematics.Recruitment efforts for INSET will build on established relationships with California community colleges that have large underrepresented and disadvantaged populations. This program will enhance the capacity of other institutions to support community college transfer students by raising the profile of high-achieving community college students, promoting successful university/community college partnership models, and disseminating INSET evaluation findings through publications and professional conferences.