REU Site: Nanoscale Materials Science and Engineering at Vanderbilt University

技术摘要在美国国家科学基金会材料研究部和工程部以及国防部ASSURE计划的支持下，范德比尔特纳米科学与工程学院（VINSE）本科生暑期研究经验（REU）计划将为STEM本科生提供与教师密切合作的机会，在纳米科学与工程领域的前沿研究项目。VINSE教师将为REU学生提供真正的跨学科研究经验，在物理学家，化学家，生物学家和所有工程师合作解决问题并创造新的科学理解的环境中。该研究的首要主题是纳米材料的创新和制造。每个学生除了在VINSE教师导师的附属研究实验室工作外，还可以使用共享设施的VINSE实验室。REU网站将正式教育参与的研究生，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，并使学生广泛接触纳米尺度科学和工程前沿的研究。该项目将重点招收来自代表性不足的少数群体和STEM研究机会有限的学校的学生。纳米科学和纳米技术是基于在纳米尺度上系统地合成、组织、表征和操纵物质的能力，创造出独特的功能材料，这些材料可以是无机的、有机的或生物的，也可以是其中任何两种或两种以上的混合物。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，因此需要以跨学科的方式培养各级学生，而这个本科生研究经验（REU）网站将通过结合范德比尔特大学在纳米尺度上独特的跨学科研究机会，提供坚实的培训。参与以学科为基础的实验实验室或计算环境的研究。因此，通过这个跨学科的暑期项目训练的学生将带着对成功地为纳米科学和纳米技术的新兴学科做出贡献所需的技能的赞赏离开。REU的学生还将有机会通过参加范德比尔特暑期学院（Vanderbilt Summer Academy），为对纳米科学和纳米技术感兴趣的天才高中生提供整合研究与教育和推广的培训。该基地由美国国家科学基金会材料研究部和工程局以及国防部ASSURE项目共同支持。

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.