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.

这个为期三年的REU网站奖将在德克萨斯州A M大学航空航天工程系的计算和实验多尺度物理学研究重点的10名本科生。本研究所的目标是：（1）在三个暑假中，每年让十名学生参与多尺度物理学的三个关键研究领域，为期十周（2）鼓励代表性不足的少数民族学生，包括女生参加;（3）提供关于研究生院的信息，并鼓励学生申请;（4）为REU学生提供机会，与教师一起展示和发表，并在可能的情况下在暑假之后进行合作;（5）为REU，TAMU学生和教师提供网络和社区建设的机会。该项目将使他们能够获得多尺度物理学的有限研究机会。具体的研究领域包括等离子体流物理和电磁空间推进系统，新的湍流物理模型和高超音速流物理。其中许多领域对国家目标、美国在太空探索方面的领导地位、未来的航空航天运输需求和国土安全至关重要，除了连接到当前的研究和工程在全球范围内面临的挑战。该计划还寻求加强和多样化的人才库考虑研究职业生涯在多个领域，通过使妇女和代表性不足的群体能够获得航空航天工程研究，扩大物理学的规模。参与的学生将参与研究，可以有助于增加对中尺度和多尺度物理学的理解，以及模拟这种现象的新方法。教师和学生导师将与工程学院的工程教育和创新学院密切合作，确保经验包括多学科设计，体验式学习，系统思维/工程和学生的专业发展等方面。此外，学生将通过我们与工程学院的本科夏季研究补助金计划，该计划每年夏天与超过60名学生合作，成为更大的本科研究人员群体的一部分。完成该计划的学生将通过专业和社交网站（LinkedIn，Facebook等）进行跟踪。参加后，REU学生将收到他们可以在招聘REU或外展访问，他们可以自己发起，并继续保持这种访问的职业开放使用的信息。参与的学生将被要求展示他们的海报并在他们的家乡机构招募未来的REU学生，即，实践每一个，达到一个，教一个。