REU Site: Chemical Energy Storage and Conversion

REU 站点：化学能存储和转换

• 批准号: 1004826
• 负责人: Michael Janik
• 金额: $ 27.01万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-15 至 2013-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1004826&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Chemical; Energy; Storage

This three-year REU Site program at Pennsylvania State University, University Park will focus on research in Chemical Energy Storage and Conversion. Ten undergraduate students each year will engage in hands-on research that will help them develop the skills needed for the critical evaluation of these technologies and a deeper understanding of the research process. The REU participants will also have the opportunity to interact and learn from the large number of undergraduates who will be conducting summer research at the university. In addition to the research experience, REU students will be engaged in a series of educational meetings focused on the following topics: 1) Laboratory Safety and Right-to-Know laws; 2) Maintaining a high-quality laboratory notebook; 3) Library services, electronic databases, and citation indices; and 4) Statistical analysis of experimental data. Social activities will be an integral part of the students' experience with the goal of building friendships and collegiality between the students and faculty mentors. Students will be guided through a series of written and oral presentation steps that will provide them with the background they need to create a "virtual poster"- a multimedia presentation of their research that can be shared via the web. This virtual poster will also be transportable, allowing REU students to share their work with students and faculty at their home universities, project collaborators, and future REU participants. Finally, the Principal Investigator (PI) will use the virtual posters as a recruiting tool for future REU applicants.What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity?The goal of this REU Site program is to attract an outstanding and highly diverse group of students nationwide. Recruitment efforts will be done at a number of targeted natural and physical science programs at smaller (primarily Liberal Arts) institutions, including Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, Lincoln University, and Juniata. In addition, efforts will be made to attract students from smaller schools like Bucknell, Villanova, and Lafayette that have undergraduate engineering programs but limited graduate research activities. Participants in the program will be motivated and encouraged to pursue graduate study.The increasing realization of diminishing fossil and fuel resources, coupled with the challenge of energy security and environmental impact of energy consumption, are motivating extensive research efforts in improving and developing new energy storage and conversion technologies. Pennsylvania State University is at the forefront in research in alternative energy technology, with a university wide initiative to take a leadership role in energy-related research.

这个为期三年的REU网站计划在宾夕法尼亚州立大学，大学公园将专注于化学能源储存和转换的研究。 每年有10名本科生将参与实践研究，这将帮助他们培养对这些技术进行批判性评估所需的技能，并更深入地了解研究过程。REU的参与者也将有机会与将在大学进行暑期研究的大量本科生进行互动和学习。 除了研究经验，REU学生将参加一系列教育会议，重点关注以下主题：1）实验室安全和知情权法律; 2）保持高质量的实验室笔记本; 3）图书馆服务，电子数据库和引文索引;和4）实验数据的统计分析。 社交活动将是学生体验的一个组成部分，其目标是在学生和教师导师之间建立友谊和合作关系。 学生将被引导通过一系列的书面和口头演示步骤，将为他们提供他们需要创建一个“虚拟海报”的背景-他们的研究，可以通过网络共享的多媒体演示。 这个虚拟海报也将是可移动的，允许REU学生与他们家乡大学的学生和教师，项目合作者和未来的REU参与者分享他们的工作。最后，主要研究者（PI）将使用虚拟海报作为未来REU申请者的招聘工具。拟议活动的更广泛影响是什么？这个REU网站计划的目标是吸引全国范围内优秀和高度多样化的学生群体。 招聘工作将在一些较小的（主要是文科）机构，包括布林莫尔，斯沃斯莫尔，林肯大学和朱尼亚塔有针对性的自然和物理科学课程。 此外，还将努力吸引来自巴克内尔、维拉诺瓦和拉斐特等规模较小的学校的学生，这些学校有本科工程项目，但研究生研究活动有限。 该计划的参与者将被激励和鼓励继续研究生学习。越来越多的人意识到化石和燃料资源的减少，加上能源安全和能源消费对环境的影响的挑战，正在推动广泛的研究工作，以改善和开发新的能源储存和转换技术。 宾夕法尼亚州立大学在替代能源技术的研究方面处于领先地位，在能源相关研究方面发挥领导作用。