REU-Site: Regional Initiative to Promote Undergraduate Participation in Experimental and Computational Materials Research

REU-Site：促进本科生参与实验和计算材料研究的区域倡议

基本信息

批准号：
1460392
负责人：
Yogesh Vohra
金额：
$ 28.71万
依托单位：
University of Alabama at Birmingham
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2015-03-01 至 2018-02-28
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1460392&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
REU Site Regional Initiative Promote

项目摘要

NON-TECHNICAL PART: The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site in experimental and computational materials research. This REU Site project involves a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) partner institution and two regional universities to recruit students from academic institutions where research opportunities are limited. UAB will offer a broad range of interdisciplinary materials research experiences to undergraduate students with a diversity of backgrounds in physics, chemistry, applied mathematics, and engineering. The undergraduate students will gain experience in materials synthesis, materials characterization, and computer modeling and simulations during their ten-week research stay at the UAB campus The scientific research projects have been specifically developed for undergraduates by an interdisciplinary team consisting of science and engineering faculty at UAB. They focus on emerging areas in materials research. UAB will offer a lecture series on scientific communications, responsible conduct of research, finding graduate school and funding graduate education, and commercialization of research ideas to all undergraduate participants. REU participants will publish their findings in peer-reviewed journals and/or present at professional meetings leading to a broad dissemination of new knowledge created in the undergraduate research projects. TECHNICAL PART: UAB will offer undergraduate research projects in materials under extreme conditions, thin film growth and characterization, microelectronic materials, laser materials, nanostructured biomaterials and composites, stimuli responsive polymers, electronic structure calculations of materials, and molecular dynamics simulations. Some research projects will also involve the use of national X-ray synchrotron and neutron diffraction facilities in materials research. The undergraduate students will carry out independent research while at the same time will be a part of an interdisciplinary research team. The undergraduate student projects will have short-term achievable milestones, while simultaneously contributing to longer-term scientific goals and technological applications. Teaming of REU participants with faculty and graduate students, giving poster and oral presentations, writing a research style paper, and attending training seminars in scientific communications and ethics will enable the REU students to understand what is required to become a research scientist with the critical skills needed for analyzing, interpreting, and presenting scientific data.

非技术部分：伯明翰（UAB）的阿拉巴马大学将在实验和计算材料研究中为大学生（REU）地点提供研究经验。这个REU网站项目涉及历史悠久的黑人学院（HBCU）合作伙伴机构和两所区域大学，以招募研究机会有限的学术机构的学生。 UAB将为具有物理，化学，应用数学和工程学背景多样的本科生提供广泛的跨学科材料研究经验。本科生将获得材料合成，材料表征以及计算机建模和模拟的经验，他们在UAB校园的研究期间，科学研究项目是由由UAB的科学和工程学院组成的跨学科团队专门针对本科生的。他们专注于材料研究中的新兴领域。 UAB将提供有关科学沟通，负责任的研究，寻找研究生院和资助研究生教育以及对所有本科参与者进行研究思想的商业化的讲座。 REU参与者将在同行评审的期刊和/或在专业会议上发布他们的发现，从而广泛传播本科研究项目中创建的新知识。技术零件：UAB将在极端条件下，薄膜的生长和特征，微电体材料，激光材料，纳米结构的生物材料和复合材料，刺激反应性聚合物，材料的电子结构计算以及分子动力学模拟。一些研究项目还将涉及在材料研究中使用国家X射线同步加速器和中子衍射设施。本科生将进行独立的研究，同时将成为跨学科研究团队的一部分。本科生项目将具有短期可实现的里程碑，同时为长期的科学目标和技术应用做出了贡献。 REU参与者与教师和研究生组合，为海报和口头介绍，撰写研究风格的论文以及参加科学沟通和道德的培训研讨会，将使REU学生能够了解具有分析，口译和介绍科学数据所需的关键技能所需的研究科学家所需的内容。