Collaborative Research: Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education

该奖项支持将在密歇根大学和加州大学伯克利分校举办的综合计算材料教育暑期学校。计算机的使用在新材料的发现和产品的设计中起着越来越重要的作用，直到制造产品的材料。综合计算材料教育暑期学校将培训和协助有意将计算材料科学工具纳入材料科学和工程教育的研究生、博士后研究员和教授。完成课程的参与者是计算材料科学与工程的大使——他们回到自己的家乡大学，实施暑期学校提供的模块和方法。以往的暑期学校已通过其参与者为500多名本科生提供服务。它还为参与者提供了更深入学习计算技术的第一步。这将反过来刺激计算材料科学的进步，从而将在更广泛的材料科学和工程领域产生连锁反应。研究生参与者在研究和教学方面都接受过培训，为他们提供了一个为未来高等教育职业道路做准备的机会。技术概述：该奖项支持将在密歇根大学和加州大学伯克利分校举办的综合计算材料教育暑期学校。在过去的十年中，计算方法已经改变了许多科学和工程学科。虽然材料的物理复杂性和多尺度性质使得建模具有挑战性，但计算材料科学的现代方法也开始在新材料的设计和开发中产生广泛的影响。为了应对社区的需求和挑战，该团队建立了“综合计算材料教育暑期学校”，这是一个为期两周的项目，包括计算材料科学和工程的强化课程，以及可用于现有材料科学和工程核心课程的教育模块的重点课程。具体来说，该团队开发的模块可以集成到现有的本科水平的核心课程中，包括材料热力学、动力学、电子特性和力学。利用这些模块，暑期学校旨在“教育教育者”。继2011年、2012年和2014年的活动之后，暑期学校将在2015年、2016年和2017年继续提供。综合计算材料教育暑期学校帮助提高了大学和学院将计算材料科学工具纳入其核心课程的速度，从而对大量年轻的材料科学家产生了影响。除了教育部分，暑期学校还将包括来自计算材料研究前沿的高级主题，这为传播最新研究提供了一个论坛。此外，参与者还将学习可以纳入他们研究的计算工具，从而培训未来的劳动力，使他们能够利用越来越多的计算工具进行材料设计和开发。暑期学校还将提供一个案例研究，探讨如何将本科教育转变为在科学、技术、工程和数学学科中融入技术。

NONTECHNICAL SUMMARYThis award supports the Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education which will be held at the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley. The use of computers plays an increasingly important role in the discovery of new materials and the design of products down to the materials from which they are made. The Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education will train and assist graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professors who intend to incorporate computational materials science tools into materials science and engineering education. The participants who complete the program are ambassadors of computational materials science and engineering - they return to their home universities and implement the modules and approaches presented in the Summer School. Previous offerings of the Summer School have reached over 500 undergraduate students through its participants. It also provides the participants the first step towards more in-depth learning of the computational techniques. This will in turn stimulate the advancement of computational materials science, and thus will have ripple effects in the broader field of materials science and engineering. Graduate student participants are both trained in research and teaching, providing them an opportunity to prepare for future career path in higher education.TECHNICAL SUMMARYThis award supports the Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education which will be held at the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley. Computational approaches have transformed many scientific and engineering disciplines in the last decade. While the complexity of the physics and multiscale nature of materials makes modeling challenging, modern methods of computational materials science are also beginning to produce widespread impact in the design and development of new materials. In response to the needs and challenges identified by the community, the team has established the "Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education," a two-week program that includes an intense course on computational materials science and engineering and focus sessions on educational modules that can be adopted into existing materials science and engineering core courses. Specifically, the team has developed modules that can be integrated into existing undergraduate-level core courses on material thermodynamics, kinetics, electronic properties, and mechanics. Using these modules, the Summer School aims to "educate the educators." Following the events in 2011, 2012, and 2014, the Summer School will continue to be offered in Years 2015, 2016, and 2017. The Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education has helped enable the rapid increase in the rate at which universities and colleges are incorporating computational materials science tools into their core curriculum, thus having an impact on a large number of young materials scientists. In addition to the educational component, the Summer School will also include advanced topics from the forefront of computational materials research, which provides a forum for dissemination of state-of-the-art research. Furthermore, the participants will learn about computational tools that could be incorporated into their research, resulting in a training of future workforce capable of taking advantage of the increasing availability of computational tools for materials design and development. The Summer School will also provide a case study for a method of transforming undergraduate education to embrace technology in a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics subject.