REU Site: Application of Microscopy and Microanalysis in Multidisciplinary Research

非技术描述：波特兰州立大学（PSU）继续为本科生提供多学科研究经验，这是大波特兰地区唯一的此类网站。该网站在过去15年里成功运作，妇女和少数民族的参与程度很高。REU网站的目标将继续专注于激励本科生，重点是女性、少数民族和美国武装部队退伍军人，通过向他们提供动手研究的机会，追求科学和工程方面的职业。此外，新招募的参与者将包括对研究表现出极大兴趣，但在学术上表现不佳的人。希望REU的这个网站能够让这些学生发挥他们的才能，朝着他们的职业目标前进。技术描述：PSU的REU站点将电子显微镜用于多学科应用的总体主题下的各种研究项目联系在一起。通过一个集中的暑期项目，参与者将获得技术培训，进行独立研究，参观当地高科技产业，并在REU研讨会上展示他们的研究成果。活动将以培训周开始，包括实验室安全、图书馆数据库搜索和研究生院申请的讲习班。此外，我们还开设了一个短期强化课程，训练学生使用扫描电子显微镜或聚焦离子束显微镜对材料和器件进行表征。然后，学生将在机械与材料工程、电气与计算机工程、物理、化学、生物和地质等系的教师导师提供的研究项目中使用这些获得的技能。REU的参与者将带着适用于所有学科的基本技能（电子和离子显微镜）离开暑期课程，并对研究经验对其高等教育和职业选择的影响有更广泛的认识。

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Portland State University (PSU) continues its operation of a multidiscipline research experience for undergraduate site, the only site of its kind in the greater Portland region. This site has been successfully operating for the past fifteen years and has achieved a high level of participation from women and minorities. The objective of the REU site will continue to focus on inspiring undergraduate students with an emphasis on women, minorities, and US Armed Forces veterans to pursue careers in science and engineering by exposing them to hands-on research opportunities. In addition, the new recruitment will include participants who show great interest in research, but are underachieving academically. It is highly expected that this REU site will enable such students to develop their talents and progress towards their career goals.TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The REU site at PSU ties diverse research projects together under the overarching theme of electron microscopy for multidisciplinary applications. Through a concentrated summer program, the participants will obtain technical training, conduct independent research, visit local high-tech industries, and present their research at an REU symposium. The activities will begin with a training week including workshops on laboratory safety, library database searches, and graduate school applications. Also offered is an intensive short course that trains students in using scanning electron microscope or focused ion beam microscope for material and device characterization. Students will then use these acquired skills in research projects offered by faculty mentors from the departments of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Geology. It is highly anticipated that REU participants will leave the summer program with a quintessential skill (electron and ion microscopy) applicable to all disciplines and a broader perspective of the impact of research experience on their high education and career choices.