Student Poster Symposium at ASME Society-Wide Micro and Nano Technology Forum, Denver, Colorado, November 11, 2011 - November 17, 2011

项目负责人：Tony Jun Huang，宾夕法尼亚州立大学提案号：CBET 1160568该提案旨在为2011年美国机械工程师学会全社会微纳米技术论坛的学生参与资助，该论坛将在2011年美国机械工程师学会IMECE期间在丹佛举行。提议的论坛将聚集美国机械工程师学会成员和其他人，重点关注微纳米技术领域的新发展。在过去的三年中，该论坛受到ASME IMECE与会者的热烈欢迎，特别是学生；每年，论坛上都有150多份海报展示和大约300名与会者。拟议的NSF奖励将用于进一步培养学生的发展，通过提供部分旅行补助金，包括会议注册费和住宿费，鼓励一组在微/纳米工程领域工作的优秀学生参与。旅行奖将由微纳米论坛组委会的一个专家小组决定，并将根据提交的海报摘要的技术质量和他们的研究顾问的声明。在过去，参加ASME微纳米论坛的学生非常重视论坛给他们的机会，展示他们的研究，与同行互动，并结识他们周围环境之外的人。此外，论坛亦为学生提供机会，让他们接触到微纳科技的前沿研究，并提高他们在研究环境中具有竞争力的工具能力，包括团队合作和项目管理、口头和书面技术沟通技巧、道德和整体研究敏锐度。此外，学生们将有机会参加与他们当前研究相关的技术报告（预计在IMECE 2011上将有超过2000份报告和海报），以及其他机械工程领域的报告。这将使他们接触到可能与他们当前项目相关的解决方案和挑战，同时为发现未来令人兴奋的新研究活动提供机会。在这方面，论坛的使命与国家科学基金会（特别是工程局）吸引年轻研究人才和指导他们从事科学和工程事业的使命非常吻合。参与的学生将直接接触到他们研究领域的领导者（技术组委会成员，评委等），这将为他们提供一个独特的机会来传播他们最新的研究成果，并获得博士后职位和教师职位的第一手信息。ASME传统上举办几次大挑战会议，来自行业或政府的演讲者确定国家在各个领域面临的关键技术挑战。此外，由杰出研究人员举办的ASME奖项讲座、关于伦理和下一代工程教育课程的特别会议，以及对当地工业和国家实验室的技术参观，都是学生学习和成长的其他机会。像过去一样，来自美国国家科学基金会、国防部机构、国家实验室和工业界的人员预计将在会议上有很强的影响力。这些团体的成员将参与举办专业发展研讨会、工作坊、信息发布会和招聘活动，并为学生的发展提供进一步的新途径。在选择参加旅行奖的学生时，我们将尽一切努力包括并鼓励少数族裔和传统上代表性不足的工程学生群体的学生参与。

PI: Tony Jun Huang, Pennsylvania State UniversityProposal Number: CBET 1160568The proposed effort seeks NSF funding for student participation grants for the 2011 ASME Society-Wide Micro and Nano Technology Forum to be held during the ASME IMECE 2011 in Denver, Co. The proposed Forum will bring together ASME members and others, with a focus on new developments in the field of micro and nanotechnology. For the past three years the forum has been enthusiastically embraced by ASME IMECE attendees, in particular students; each year, there have been more than 150 poster presentations and about 300 attendees at the forum. The proposed NSF awards will be used to further nurture student development by encouraging participation from a select group of meritorious students working in the general area of micro-/nanoscale engineering by providing them partial travel grants including expenses related to conference registration fees and lodging. The travel awards will be decided by a panel of experts from the Micro and Nano Forum organizing committee, and will be based on the technical quality of the poster abstracts submitted and statement from their research advisors. In the past, the participating students at the ASME Micro and Nano Forum have greatly valued the opportunity given to them by the Forum to showcase their research, interact with their peers, and meet people outside of their immediate environment. Besides this, the Forum also provides opportunities to increase student exposure to cutting-edge research in the frontiers of micro and nano technologies, and increase student abilities with respect to tools that will make them competitive in a research environment, namely, team work and project management, oral and written technical communication skills, ethics, and overall research acumen. In addition, the students will get an opportunity to attend technical presentations (over 2000 presentations and posters are anticipated to be presented at IMECE 2011) relevant to their current research, and also in other mechanical engineering fields. This will expose them to solutions and challenges that may be relevant to their current projects, while at the same time provide opportunities to discover exciting new research activities to pursue in future. In this regards, the mission of the forum fits well with the mission of NSF (in particular the Engineering Directorate) in attracting young research talents and mentoring them for a career in science and engineering. Direct exposure of the participating students to leaders in their research fields (technical organizing committee members, judges, etc.) will provide them with a unique opportunity to disseminate their most recent research, and receive first-hand information on available opportunities for postdoctoral positions, as well as faculty positions. ASME traditionally hosts several Grand Challenge sessions where speakers from industry or government identify critical technical challenges facing the nation in various fields. In addition, ASME award lectures by prominent researchers, special sessions on ethics and the next-generation engineering education curriculum, and technical tours to local industry and national laboratories represent other opportunities for student learning and growth. Like in the past, personnel from NSF, DoD agencies, national laboratories, and industry are expected to have a strong presence at the conference. Members from these groups will be involved in providing professional development seminars, workshops, information sessions and recruitment activities, and will provide further new avenues for student development as well. While selecting students for the travel awards, every effort will be made to include and encourage student participation from both minority and traditionally underrepresented student groups in engineering.