Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Formation of new MAST Center Site at the University of Arkansas

规划拨款：I/UCRC 用于在阿肯色大学建立新的 MAST 中心场地

• 批准号: 1266060
• 负责人: Ranil Wickramasinghe
• 金额: $ 1.43万
• 依托单位: University of Arkansas
• 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: 2013-02-15 至 2014-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1266060&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; UCRC; Formation; new

1266060 University of Arkansas; Ranil Wickramasinghe The proposed site, the University of Arkansas Fayetteville, requests funding for a planning meeting to establish a partner site of the Membrane Science, Engineering & Technology (MAST) Center that is currently comprised of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (lead institution) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, as a research partner. The addition of the University of Arkansas site to the current MAST Center will bring new areas of expertise and complement existing expertise. A particular focus of the new site will be the application of membrane based separations for sustainability and in the manufacture of food and beverages. The presence of strong departments in food science and poultry science at the University of Arkansas will enable the MAST Center to grow its research program in these new areas. In addition to these new areas, the faculty at the University of Arkansas has expertise that complements existing strength in the core areas of membrane formation, modification, characterization and performance. Faculty members from across the University of Arkansas have been identified who would have strong potential interest in participating as MAST Center researchers. Establishing the proposed MAST site would lead to the education and training of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows for the membrane and related industries. The director of the Arkansas MAST Center site will work with the Arkansas Research Alliance to introduce the MAST Center to local industry. Numerous Arkansas based companies have been identified that could directly benefit from graduate students and postdoctoral researcher who have been trained in membrane science and technology. Further industry mentorship of research projects at the proposed site provides a unique opportunity for graduate students to hone their communications skills and learn to work effectively in teams in addition to the technical skills required by the research projects. The site director plans to work with existing programs on campus to attract students from underrepresented groups in science and engineering to the MAST Center; and, advances in the applications of membrane separation technologies will be incorporated in the undergraduate courses in separations, reactor design and chemical engineering laboratories.

1266060阿肯色州大学; Ranil Wickramasinghe拟议的网站，阿肯色州费耶特维尔大学，要求为一个规划会议提供资金，以建立一个膜科学，工程技术（MAST）中心的合作伙伴网站，该中心目前由新泽西理工学院（牵头机构）和位于博尔德的科罗拉多大学组成，作为研究合作伙伴。阿肯色州网站的增加，目前MAST中心将带来新的专业领域，并补充现有的专业知识。新工厂的一个特别重点将是基于可持续性的膜分离应用以及食品和饮料的制造。阿肯色州大学食品科学和家禽科学的强大部门的存在将使MAST中心能够在这些新领域发展其研究计划。除了这些新领域，阿肯色州大学的教师拥有专业知识，补充了膜形成，改性，表征和性能等核心领域的现有优势。来自整个阿肯色州大学的教师已经确定谁将有强烈的潜在兴趣参与MAST中心的研究人员。建立拟议的MAST网站将导致教育和培训研究生和博士后研究员的膜和相关行业。阿肯色州MAST中心的主任将与阿肯色州研究联盟合作，向当地工业界介绍MAST中心。许多阿肯色州的公司已经确定，可以直接受益于研究生和博士后研究人员谁已经在膜科学和技术的培训。在拟议的网站研究项目的进一步行业导师提供了一个独特的机会，研究生磨练自己的沟通技巧，并学习有效地在团队中工作，除了研究项目所需的技术技能。现场主任计划与校园现有的计划，以吸引学生从科学和工程的代表性不足的群体到MAST中心;和，膜分离技术的应用进展将被纳入分离，反应器设计和化学工程实验室的本科课程。