REU: AERO-U: Aerospace Engineering Research Opportunities for Undergraduates

REU：AERO-U：本科生航空航天工程研究机会

• 批准号: 1157070
• 负责人: Dimitris Lagoudas
• 金额: $ 38.31万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1157070&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; AERO; Aerospace; Engineering; Research

This three year REU Site award will engage 10 undergraduate students in research focuses in computational and experimental multi-scale physics in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. The objectives of this REU are to: (1) Involve a total of ten students, for ten-weeks in each of three summers, in three key research areas of multi-scale physics (solid mechanics, fluid and plasma dynamics, system dynamics and control); (2) Encourage participation of students from underrepresented minorities, which includes females; (3) Provide information on graduate school and encourage students to apply; (4) Provide opportunities for REU students to present and publish with faculty and collaborate beyond the summers if possible; and (5) Provide networking and community-building opportunities among REU, TAMU students, and faculty.The project will enable access to limited research opportunities in multi-scale physics. Specific research areas include plasma flow physics and electromagnetic space propulsion systems, novel turbulence physics models, and hypersonic flow physics. Many of these areas are critical to national goals, USA leadership in space exploration, future aerospace transportation needs, and homeland security, in addition to connecting to current research and challenges faced by engineering on a global level.The program also seeks to enhance and diversify the pool of talented students considering research careers in multi-scale physics by enabling access for women and underrepresented groups to aerospace engineering research. Participating students will be involved in research that can contribute to increased understanding of meso-scale and multi-scale physics and new approaches to modeling such phenomena. Faculty and student mentors will work closely with the College of Engineering's Institute of Engineering Education and Innovation on ensuring the experience includes aspects of multi-disciplinary design, experiential learning, systems thinking/engineering, and professional development for the students. In addition, the students will be a part of a larger group of undergraduate researchers through our collaboration with the College of Engineering's Undergraduate Summer Research Grant program, which works with in excess of 60 students each summer. Students who complete the program will be tracked through professional and social networking sites (Linked-In, Facebook, etc.). After participating, REU students will receive information they can use in recruiting for the REU or for outreach visits that they can initiate on their own and continue keeping this access to the careers open. Participating students will be required to display their posters and recruit future REU students at their home institutions, i.e., practice each one, reach one and teach one.

这项为期三年的REU SITE奖项将吸引10名本科生在德克萨斯农工大学航空航天工程系从事计算和实验多尺度物理方面的研究。该研究生院的目标是：(1)在三个暑假中，每年10周，让10名学生参与多尺度物理的三个关键研究领域(固体力学、流体和等离子体动力学、系统动力学和控制)；(2)鼓励来自少数族裔的学生参与，其中包括女性；(3)提供研究生院的信息，并鼓励学生申请；(4)为研究生院的学生提供展示和出版的机会，如果可能的话，在暑假之后进行合作；以及(5)在REU、TAMU学生和教师之间提供网络和社区建设机会。该项目将使人们能够获得有限的多尺度物理研究机会。具体研究领域包括等离子体流动物理和电磁空间推进系统、新型湍流物理模型和高超声速流动物理。这些领域中的许多都对国家目标、美国在太空探索中的领导地位、未来的航空航天运输需求和国土安全至关重要，此外，还与当前的研究和全球工程面临的挑战联系在一起。该项目还寻求通过允许女性和代表性不足的群体接触航空航天工程研究，来增强和多样化考虑多尺度物理研究职业的有才华的学生。参与的学生将参与有助于加深对中尺度和多尺度物理的理解以及对此类现象建模的新方法的研究。教师和学生导师将与工程学院的工程教育与创新学院密切合作，确保体验包括多学科设计、体验式学习、系统思维/工程以及学生的专业发展。此外，通过我们与工程学院的本科生暑期研究助学金计划的合作，这些学生将成为更大的本科生研究人员群体的一部分，该计划每年夏天与60多名学生合作。完成课程的学生将通过专业和社交网站(LinkIn、Facebook等)进行跟踪。参加后，REU学生将收到信息，他们可以用来为REU招聘或进行外展访问，他们可以自己发起，并继续保持这种职业机会的开放。参与的学生将被要求展示他们的海报，并在他们所在的机构招募未来的REU学生，即一个接一个地练习，一个接一个地教。