REU Site: Aerospace Engineering Research Opportunities for Undergraduates (AERO-U)

本科生研究经验（REU）网站计划，航空航天工程研究机会本科生（AERO-U）在得克萨斯州A M大学（TAMU）的更新，其首要目标是鼓励本科生，特别是代表性不足的少数民族和妇女，追求职业生涯作为研究人员在航空航天工程。项目涵盖了许多与航空航天相关的研究课题，并将包括仿生变形机翼，cyclocopters和无人驾驶自动驾驶汽车设计的新项目。 继续开展的研究活动包括电磁场对高超音速飞行器超燃冲压发动机进气道、机翼、稳定性和向湍流和推进器中等离子体的过渡以及其他领域（例如生物医学、材料合成）的影响的建模和测试项目。许多研究领域对国家在太空探索，未来运输需求和国土安全方面的领导目标至关重要。 在为期三年的时间里，这个REU网站计划将吸引本科生参加为期10周的密集夏季体验，重点是进行尖端的航空航天工程研究。学生将从事个性化项目，与其他REU学生，TAMU本科生和研究生以及TAMU教师一起参与社区建设活动，获得专业发展机会，接受有关研究生院的辅导，并参加将研究与现实问题联系起来的实地考察。将招收的学生侧重于全国代表性不足的少数民族和妇女，来自TAMU工程实验站的18所大学，其中许多是少数民族服务机构。 这些包括TAMU-金斯维尔和TAMU-科珀斯克里斯蒂，这两个西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），和草原视图A M（PVAMU），一个历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）。PVAMU和TAMU-Kingsville已经建立了工程项目，其他TEES机构也有新兴的项目。

This renewal of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site program, Aerospace Engineering Research Opportunities for Undergraduates (AERO-U) at Texas A&M University (TAMU) has at its overarching goal to encourage undergraduate students, especially underrepresented minorities and women, to pursue careers as researchers in aerospace engineering. Projects span a number of aerospace related research topics and will include new projects on the design of a bio-mimetic morphing wing, cyclocopters, and uninhabited autonomous vehicles. Continuing research activities include projects on modeling and testing of electromagnetic field effects on hypersonic vehicle scramjet inlet, wing, stability and transition to turbulence and plasmas in propulsion and other fields (e.g. bio-medical, materials synthesis. Many of the research areas are critical to national goals for leadership in space exploration, future transportation needs, and homeland security. Over a three year period, this REU Site program will engage undergraduate students in a 10-week intensive, summer experience focused on conducting cutting-edge aerospace engineering research. The students will work on individualized projects, engage in community building activities with other REU students, TAMU undergraduates and graduate students, and TAMU faculty, receive professional development opportunities, receive tutoring concerning graduate school, and attend field trips which connect the research to real-world problems. Students to be recruited focus on underrepresented minorities and women nationwide and from the 18 universities in the TAMU Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and many are minority serving institutions. These include TAMU-Kingsville and TAMU-Corpus Christi, both Hispanic Serving institutions (HSI), and Prairie View A&M (PVAMU), an historically black college and university (HBCU). PVAMU and TAMU-Kingsville have established engineering programs, and other TEES institutions have emerging ones.