REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Fluid Power

REU网站：流体动力本科生研究经验

• 批准号: 1263346
• 负责人: Kim Stelson
• 金额: $ 39万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1263346&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Research; Experiences; Undergraduates

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:The NSF Engineering Research Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP) is a network of researchers, educators, students and industry working together to transform the fluid power industry?how it is researched, applied and taught. CCEFP research projects are organized in three thrusts that achieve the following societal benefits: creation of new fluid power technology that, with improved efficiency, will significantly reduce petroleum consumption, energy use and pollution; creation of new fluid power technology that, with improved effectiveness, will make fluid power clean, quiet and safe for its millions of users; and creation of new fluid power technology that, with improved compactness, will exploit its attributes in a new generation of human scale devices and equipment. The CCEFP?s education and outreach program is designed to transfer this knowledge to diverse audiences?students of all ages, users of fluid power and the general public. Through its strategic planning process, CCEFP has identified the following important goals for the next five years: doubling fluid power efficiency in current applications and in new transportation applications, increasing fluid power energy storage density by an order of magnitude, and developing new fluid power supplies that are one to two orders of magnitude smaller than anything currently available. The CCEFP fills a void in fluid power research that existed for decades. Until the Center was established, the U.S. had no major fluid power research center (compared with thirty centers in Europe). Fluid power researchers, who were previously disconnected, are now linked through the CCEFP. The demand for engineers and scientists continues to grow, but the number of mechanical engineering students graduated each year remains constant. Within this group, the number of women and underrepresented minority engineers, including engineers with disabilities, remains small. Attracting and retaining these groups can significantly address the shortage of skilled engineers.NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: The Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) supports the NSF Engineering Research Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP), which will establish a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site Program that will engage 14 undergraduate students in 10-week summer research experience in fluid power research. Goals of the CCEFP is to change the face of fluid power by exposing a diverse body of students to the transformational research underway in hydraulics and pneumatics in the hope that they will become the academic and industry leaders of the future. This REU site will take advantage of CCEFP?s unique ability to leverage the power and potential of its broad menu of research initiatives, the opportunities afforded to pursue these projects in well-equipped laboratories at seven universities, and the subject matter expertise of its faculty. Highlights for REU participants include: immersion in one of the CCEFP 24 cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional research projects and four test beds under the supervision of faculty and graduate student mentors, access to state-of-the-art fluid power research facilities, participation in the bi-weekly CCEFP webcasts on fluid power research and professional development topics, an intensive two-day fluid power training boot camp at the outset of the program, a guest invitation to attend the next NFPA Workforce Summit and CCEFP Annual Meeting, interaction with industry leaders from the CCEFP 55 member companies. REU students will have the opportunity to present their research results at a variety of internal, industry and professional events as well as electronic media. One way that CCEFP strives to change the traditional face of the fluid power industry to better reflect the composition of our country's population at large. Recruiting efforts will focus on identifying underrepresented students in the sciences and engineering including women, racial and ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, and recent war veterans.

技术摘要：NSF 紧凑高效流体动力工程研究中心 (CCEFP) 是一个由研究人员、教育工作者、学生和行业组成的网络，共同努力改变流体动力行业的研究、应用和教学方式。 CCEFP 研究项目分为三个重点，可实现以下社会效益：创建新的流体动力技术，提高效率，将显着减少石油消耗、能源使用和污染；创造新的流体动力技术，提高效率，为数百万用户提供清洁、安静和安全的流体动力；并创建新的流体动力技术，该技术具有改进的紧凑性，将在新一代人体规模的装置和设备中利用其属性。 CCEFP 的教育和推广计划旨在将这些知识传播给不同的受众——各个年龄段的学生、流体动力用户和公众。通过其战略规划流程，CCEFP 确定了未来五年的以下重要目标：将当前应用和新运输应用中的流体动力效率提高一倍，将流体动力储能密度提高一个数量级，以及开发比现有产品小一到两个数量级的新型流体动力供应。 CCEFP 填补了流体动力研究数十年来的空白。在该中心成立之前，美国还没有大型流体动力研究中心（欧洲有 30 个中心）。以前互不联系的流体动力研究人员现在通过 CCEFP 联系起来。对工程师和科学家的需求持续增长，但每年机械工程专业的毕业生人数保持不变。在这一群体中，女性和代表性不足的少数族裔工程师（包括残疾工程师）的数量仍然很少。吸引和留住这些群体可以显着解决熟练工程师的短缺问题。非技术摘要：工程教育和中心部 (EEC) 支持 NSF 紧凑高效流体动力工程研究中心 (CCEFP)，该中心将建立本科生研究经验 (REU) 现场计划，让 14 名本科生参与为期 10 周的夏季流体动力研究体验。 CCEFP 的目标是通过让不同的学生群体接触液压和气动领域正在进行的变革性研究，改变流体动力的面貌，希望他们成为未来的学术和行业领导者。 REU 站点将利用 CCEFP 的独特能力，充分利用其广泛的研究计划的力量和潜力、在七所大学设备齐全的实验室中开展这些项目所提供的机会以及其教师的主题专业知识。 REU 参与者的亮点包括：在教职员工和研究生导师的监督下，沉浸在 CCEFP 24 个跨学科和跨机构研究项目和四个试验台之一、使用最先进的流体动力研究设施、参加关于流体动力研究和专业发展主题的双周 CCEFP 网络广播、在项目开始时参加为期两天的强化流体动力训练营、客座嘉宾 受邀参加下一届 NFPA 劳动力峰会和 CCEFP 年会，与 CCEFP 55 家会员公司的行业领袖互动。 REU 学生将有机会在各种内部、行业和专业活动以及电子媒体上展示他们的研究成果。 CCEFP 努力改变流体动力行业传统面貌的一种方式，以更好地反映我国广大人口的构成。招聘工作将侧重于识别科学和工程领域代表性不足的学生，包括女性、少数族裔、残疾人和新退伍军人。