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

这项为期三年的REU现场奖将在德克萨斯a&m大学航空航天工程系招收10名本科生，研究重点是计算和实验多尺度物理。该REU的目标是：(1)总共有10名学生，在三个夏季的每个夏季进行10周的多尺度物理三个关键研究领域（固体力学，流体和等离子体动力学，系统动力学和控制）；(2)鼓励包括女性在内的代表性不足的少数民族学生参与；(3)提供研究生院信息，鼓励学生申请；(4)在可能的情况下，为REU学生提供与教师一起发表和出版的机会，并在夏季之外进行合作；(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学研究机会。具体研究领域包括等离子体流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物理。其中许多领域对于国家目标、美国在太空探索方面的领导地位、未来航空运输需求和国土安全都至关重要，此外，这些领域还与当前的研究和全球工程面临的挑战有关。该项目还寻求通过为女性和代表性不足的群体提供进入航空航天工程研究的机会，来增强和多样化考虑多尺度物理学研究职业的有才华的学生群体。参与的学生将参与研究，有助于增加对中尺度和多尺度物理的理解，以及对这些现象建模的新方法。教师和学生导师将与工程学院的工程教育与创新研究所密切合作，确保学生的体验包括多学科设计、体验式学习、系统思考/工程和专业发展等方面。此外，通过我们与工程学院的本科生暑期研究资助计划的合作，学生们将成为一个更大的本科生研究小组的一部分，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（linkedin， Facebook等）进行跟踪。在参与后，REU的学生将收到信息，他们可以在REU招募或外联访问中使用，他们可以自己发起并继续保持对职业的开放。参与的学生将被要求展示他们的海报，并在他们的家乡院校招募未来的REU学生，即实践每一个，到达一个，教一个。

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.