REU Site: Nanoscale Materials Science and Engineering at Vanderbilt University

技术总结在国家科学基金会材料研究部和工程理事会以及国防部ASSURE计划的支持下，范德比尔特纳米科学与工程研究所（VINSE）本科生暑期研究经验（REU）该计划将为STEM本科生提供与教师密切合作的机会，从事纳米科学领域的前沿研究项目与工程学VINSE教师将为REU学生提供真正的跨学科研究体验，在这种环境中，物理学家，化学家，生物学家和所有工程师共同解决问题并创造新的科学理解。 该研究的首要主题是纳米材料创新和制造。每个学生都可以使用VINSE实验室，这是共享设施，除了在VINSE教师导师的附属研究实验室工作。REU网站将正式教育参与研究生，博士后助理和教师如何指导REU学生，设计适当的研究项目，并形成一个相互支持的群体身份。该计划旨在建立学生和参与教师之间的社区意识，以及让学生广泛接触纳米科学和工程前沿的研究。 该计划将把重点放在招收学生从代表性不足的少数群体和学校与有限的STEM研究机会。非技术概述纳米科学和纳米技术是基于合成的能力，组织，表征，并在纳米尺度上系统地操纵物质，创造独特的功能材料，可以是无机，有机或生物，或任何两个或两个以上的这些混合物。纳米科学和工程的跨学科性质意味着它本质上涉及所有的科学和工程，从而需要以跨学科的方式培养各级学生，这个本科生研究经验（REU）网站将通过结合范德比尔特大学独特的跨学科研究机会，在基于学科的实验室或计算环境中参与研究。因此，通过这个跨学科的暑期课程培训的学生将离开与成功地促进纳米科学和纳米技术的新兴学科所需的技能的赞赏。REU的学生也将提供培训的机会，通过在范德比尔特夏季学院的天才高中学生谁表示有兴趣在纳米科学和纳米技术的参与研究与教育和推广的整合。该网站得到了美国国家科学基金会材料研究部和工程理事会以及国防部ASSURE计划的支持。

TECHNICAL SUMMARYWith support from the Division of Materials Research and the Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation as well as the Department of Defense ASSURE program, the Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program will offer STEM undergraduate students the opportunity to work closely with faculty on forefront research projects in the field of nanoscale science and engineering. VINSE faculty will provide REU students with a true interdisciplinary research experience in an environment where physicists, chemists, biologists, and all engineers collaboratively solve problems and create new scientific understanding. The overarching theme of the research is nano-materials innovation and fabrication. Each student will have access to the VINSE laboratories, which are shared facilities, in addition to working in the affiliated research lab of the VINSE faculty mentor. The REU site will formally educate involved graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and faculty on how to mentor the REU students, to design an appropriate research project, and to form a mutually supportive group identity. The program is designed to build a sense of community among the students and the participating faculty, as well as expose the students broadly to research at the leading edge of nanoscale science and engineering. The program will put strong emphasis on recruiting students from under-represented minority groups and schools with limited STEM research opportunities.NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARYNanoscience and nanotechnology are based on the ability to synthesize, organize, characterize, and manipulate matter systematically at the nanoscale, creating uniquely functional materials which can be inorganic, organic or biological, or a hybrid of any two or more of these. The interdisciplinary nature of nanoscale science and engineering means it inherently involves all of the sciences and engineering, resulting in the need to train students at all levels in an interdisciplinary manner, and this Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) site will provide a solid training by combining Vanderbilt University's unique interdisciplinary research opportunities at the nanoscale, with participation in research in a discipline-based experimental laboratory or computational setting. Consequently, students trained through this interdisciplinary summer program will leave with an appreciation of the skills needed to successfully contribute to the emerging disciplines of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The REU students will also be offered the opportunity for training in the integration of research with education and outreach through participation in the Vanderbilt Summer Academy for gifted high school students who have expressed an interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The site is supported by both the Division of Materials Research and the Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation as well as the Department of Defense ASSURE program.