REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experience for undergraduates interested in Materials Science and Engineering

REU 网站：为对材料科学与工程感兴趣的本科生提供跨学科研究体验

• 批准号: 1460943
• 负责人: Ranji Vaidyanathan
• 金额: $ 40.52万
• 依托单位: Oklahoma State University
• 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: 2015-09-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1460943&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Interdisciplinary; Research; Experience

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the Helmerich Research Center at Oklahoma State University (OSU) offers research experiences in materials science and engineering research to a diverse group of talented students over a period of three years. The student research projects focus on materials processing, testing and characterization for interdisciplinary applications in energy storage, energy generation, biomaterials, combustion, and aerospace. In addition, students are introduced to entrepreneurship and commercialization to transition research from the lab-scale to the real world, thus enhancing U.S. competitiveness. Students are recruited from Oklahoma colleges and universities that have limited STEM research facilities and large populations of students underrepresented in STEM. The program is leveraging existing OSU's partnerships with Tulsa Community College, which is a feeder program for Native American students transferring to undergraduate engineering programs at OSU and the Oklahoma Louis Stoke Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) to identify a diverse pool of student applicants. The REU Site offers opportunities to undergraduate students to engage in in-depth research experiences in several areas of advanced manufacturing in aerospace, energy and biomaterials. During the 9-week experience, students are mentored by experienced faculty to conduct materials engineering and science research projects in: 3-D printing and direct digital manufacturing, materials processing, and materials testing and characterization. The students are also: learning about cutting-edge materials characterization methods (through web-based participation in the two-day national workshop on Advanced Materials Characterization offered by the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); exposed to entrepreneurial routes to commercializing research (in collaboration with the Riata Center of Entrepreneurship); participating in a professional development program that includes training in communications skills and graduate school preparation and career information sessions; presenting their research results at a research symposium at the end of the summer; and being provided with opportunities to interact with local industry partners (in Tulsa, OK) that are engaged in materials research. This REU Site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.

在俄克拉荷马州州立大学（OSU）的Helmerich研究中心的本科生研究经验（REU）网站提供材料科学和工程研究的研究经验，以一个不同的有才华的学生群体超过三年。学生的研究项目侧重于材料加工，测试和表征，用于能源储存，能源发电，生物材料，燃烧和航空航天的跨学科应用。 此外，学生被引入创业和商业化，将研究从实验室规模过渡到真实的世界，从而提高美国的竞争力。 学生从俄克拉荷马州的学院和大学招募，这些学院和大学的STEM研究设施有限，并且大量学生在STEM中的代表性不足。该计划是利用现有的俄勒冈州立大学的合作伙伴关系与塔尔萨社区学院，这是一个馈线计划，为美国原住民学生转移到本科工程课程在俄勒冈州立大学和俄克拉荷马州路易斯斯托克联盟少数民族参与（LSAMP），以确定学生申请人的多元化池。REU网站为本科生提供机会，在航空航天，能源和生物材料的先进制造的几个领域进行深入的研究经验。 在为期9周的体验中，学生将由经验丰富的教师指导进行材料工程和科学研究项目：3D打印和直接数字制造，材料加工以及材料测试和表征。学生们还：了解尖端的材料表征方法（通过网上参加伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校材料研究实验室举办的为期两天的先进材料特性国家讲习班）;接触商业化研究的创业途径（与Riata创业中心合作）;参加一个专业发展计划，其中包括沟通技巧和研究生院准备和职业信息会议的培训;在夏季结束时的研究研讨会上展示他们的研究成果;并有机会与从事材料研究的当地行业合作伙伴（俄克拉荷马州塔尔萨）互动。这个REU网站由国防部与NSF REU计划合作支持。