REU in Applied Physics at University of South Florida

南佛罗里达大学应用物理学 REU

• 批准号: 1560090
• 负责人: Sarath Witanachchi
• 金额: $ 38.07万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-15 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1560090&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Applied; Physics; University; South

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Applied Physics is a diverse and interdisciplinary area that is critical to technological and societal advances that affect our national competitiveness on the global level and lead to improvements in the quality of human life. This REU site in Applied Physics will strive to nurture the next generation of scientists and engineers who will work in areas of critical importance such as energy, environment, medicine, micro and nanoelectronics, information technologies, and other key enabling technologies. The primary goal of the NSF REU site is to provide high quality motivational research experiences in Applied Physics for students from undergraduate institutions to enter this important area of research, and continue their careers in Science and Engineering as graduate students. Main objectives are: (1) To provide research experience to students from predominantly undergraduate institutions, including minority and female students; (2) To facilitate learning of research methods, laboratory skills, critical thinking, organizational, oral and written communication skills; (3) Involvement in cutting-edge research where REU students can present their results at professional meetings and publish in peer-reviewed journals; (4) Engage students in projects with innovative concepts with potential to affect technology, to educate them on steps required to transform research ideas to commercial products, and to kindle the entrepreneurial spirit in some students that may help to propagate American ingenuity; (5) Make the research experience available to Community Colleges students who have not been engaged fully in higher education, but have the potential for achieving higher academic goals. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Students have the choice of working with one of 16 faculty mentors in diverse areas of research in Applied Physics that include: (1) materials for renewable energy, (2) magnetic and ferroelectric materials for sensors, (3) metamaterials, (4) nanocomposites, (5) bio-biomedical physics, (6) computational physics, and (7) atomic-molecular-optical physics. In addition, research experiences will be enriched by several special professional development programs such as weekly REU-wide seminar programs, a weekly lecture series in "Advances in Applied Physics", and workshops to develop oral and communication skills. At the end of the program students will present their work in a university-wide REU symposium, and a selected group of students will present their research results in national conferences. Students involved in application-oriented projects will learn the steps involved in transforming basic research into commercial products.

非技术描述：应用物理学是一个多元化和跨学科的领域，对技术和社会进步至关重要，影响着我们在全球层面上的国家竞争力，并导致人类生活质量的改善。这个应用物理REU站点将努力培养下一代科学家和工程师，他们将在能源，环境，医学，微纳米电子学，信息技术和其他关键使能技术等至关重要的领域工作。NSF REU网站的主要目标是为本科院校的学生提供高质量的应用物理学激励研究经验，以进入这一重要的研究领域，并作为研究生继续他们在科学和工程领域的职业生涯。主要目标是：(1)为主要来自本科院校的学生提供研究经验，包括少数民族和女学生；(2)促进研究方法、实验室技能、批判性思维、组织、口头和书面沟通能力的学习；(3)参与前沿研究，REU学生可以在专业会议上展示成果，并在同行评审的期刊上发表；(4)让学生参与具有可能影响技术的创新概念的项目，教育他们将研究想法转化为商业产品所需的步骤，并激发一些学生的创业精神，这可能有助于传播美国的创造力；(5)让那些没有完全参与高等教育，但有潜力实现更高学术目标的社区学院学生获得研究经验。技术描述：学生可以选择与应用物理学不同研究领域的16名教师导师之一合作，包括：(1)可再生能源材料，(2)传感器磁性和铁电材料，(3)超材料，(4)纳米复合材料，(5)生物医学物理，(6)计算物理和(7)原子-分子-光学物理。此外，研究经验将通过几个特殊的专业发展计划来丰富，如每周一次的全欧盟研讨会计划，每周一次的“应用物理学进展”系列讲座，以及培养口语和沟通技能的讲习班。在项目结束时，学生们将在一个全校范围的REU研讨会上展示他们的工作，并选出一组学生在国家会议上展示他们的研究成果。参与应用型项目的学生将学习将基础研究转化为商业产品的步骤。