REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research on Granular and Particulate Materials

REU 网站：颗粒和颗粒材料的跨学科研究

• 批准号: 0851828
• 负责人: Kumbakonam Rajagopal
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-04-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0851828&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Interdisciplinary; Research; Granular

This award establishes a new REU Site for a ten-week program at Texas A&M University for three years. The focus of the program is to provide interdisciplinary research experience on granular and particulate materials for 26 diverse undergraduate students. The REU students will work with faculty mentors from different science and engineering departments at Texas A&M on characterizing, modeling, and fabricating granular and particulate materials. Granular and particulate materials span several length scales, from bulky solids such as ores and rocks to nano-particles and ultra-fine powders. Understanding the behavior of granular materials is important in virtue of their scientific, technological relevance and their impact on society. For example, large-size particles play important roles in natural disasters such as landslides, earthquakes, soil liquefaction/erosion, and are also useful for enhanced oil recovery. At the other end of the length scale, nano-particles present great potential for applications in many fields. In this REU program students will engage in research on granular materials and receive training in technical writing, communication/presentation techniques, preparation for graduate school environment, and have opportunities to interact and network among peers and professionals from different research groups. This site is co-funded by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program. Within NSF, this award is jointly funded by the Division of Materials Research in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate and the Division of Engineering Education Centers in the Engineering Directorate.

这一奖项为德克萨斯农工大学为期十周的项目设立了一个新的REU站点，为期三年。该项目的重点是为26名不同的本科生提供颗粒和颗粒材料的跨学科研究经验。REU的学生将与来自德克萨斯A&M不同科学和工程部门的教师合作，对颗粒和颗粒材料进行表征、建模和制造。颗粒和颗粒材料跨越了几个长度的尺度，从矿石和岩石等笨重的固体到纳米颗粒和超细粉末。由于颗粒材料的科学、技术相关性及其对社会的影响，了解颗粒材料的行为是很重要的。例如，大颗粒在滑坡、地震、土壤液化/侵蚀等自然灾害中发挥着重要作用，也有助于提高石油采收率。在长度尺度的另一端，纳米粒子在许多领域呈现出巨大的应用潜力。在这个REU项目中，学生将从事颗粒材料的研究，并接受技术写作、沟通/演示技术、研究生院环境准备方面的培训，并有机会与来自不同研究小组的同行和专业人员互动和建立网络。这个网站是由国防部与NSF REU计划共同资助的。在NSF内部，该奖项由数学和物理科学局的材料研究司和工程局的工程教育中心司共同资助。