REU SITE: Collaborative Research: Integrated Academia-Industry Research Experience for Undergraduate in Smart Structure Technology (IAIRESST)

旧金山州立大学(SFSU)和南卡罗来纳大学(USC)将与产业界合作，为本科生提供研究体验(REU)现场项目，名为协作研究：智能结构技术本科生的学术与产业综合研究体验(IAIRESST)，重点关注智能结构技术(SST)的学术界和产业界合作。这些技术包括创新的设备和技术，使结构更安全，维护成本更低，并能够提供额外的服务。这一REU项目将通过合作研究项目，在学术和工业环境中为工程本科生提供独特的研究体验。随着学生能力水平的提高，在这两个领域进行研究的经历有望帮助他们从相对依赖的状态转变为独立的a状态。通过REU计划开发的模式可能有助于在学术界和产业界之间建立可持续的合作模式，帮助满足国家对成熟、独立、有知识和全球竞争力的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)专业人员的需求，并适用于其他学科。随着人们对结构系统高性能要求的不断提高，表面张力技术(SST)在先进传感、现代控制、智能材料、优化和新型试验等方面受到了极大的关注，因为它具有改变土木工程、机械、航空航天和岩土工程等许多工程领域的潜力。目前，工程科学与学术界的基础研究和工程实践之间存在着很大的差距，有可能在行业内实施。该REU项目将培养本科生作为催化剂，促进学术和产业合作伙伴之间的研究灌输。这一由学生推动的学术界和产业界的合资企业将建立一个知识交流的良性循环，并有助于推动SST的基础研究和实施。为了实现这些目标，该计划将包括：在学术界和工业界开展研究的正式培训、研讨会和补充活动；通过参与学术和工业环境中具有科学和实用价值的项目获得创新的研究经验；进行实验室实验的经验；以及在专业环境中向更广泛的社区展示研究成果的机会。两个机构和行业合作伙伴的共同努力为项目团队提供了广泛获得宝贵资源的机会，例如提供更广泛的信息丰富的培训研讨会、先进设备、宝贵的数据集、经验丰富的本科生导师和专业联系的专业知识，这将促进有意义的REU体验。招募REU参与者将针对20个合作的少数族裔机构，主要是本科机构(其中15个是为拉美裔服务的机构)，其STEM研究能力有限。

The San Francisco State University (SFSU) and the University of South Carolina (USC) will collaborate with industrial partners to provide a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site program entitled, Collaborative Research: Integrated Academia-Industry Research Experience for Undergraduate in Smart Structure Technology (IAIRESST),focusing on academia-industry collaborations in Smart Structures Technologies (SST). These technologies include innovative devices and techniques that make structures safer, less expensive to maintain, and able to provide additional services. This REU program will provide engineering undergraduate students a unique research experience in both academic and industrial settings through cooperative research projects. Experiencing research in both worlds is expected to help students transition from a relatively dependent status to an independent a status as their competence level increases. The model developed through this REU program may help to exemplify the establishment of a sustainable collaboration model between academia and industry that helps address the nation's need for mature, independent, informed, and globally competitive science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals and is adapted to other disciplines. With increasing demands for high performance in structural systems, SST including advanced sensing, modern control, smart materials, optimization and novel testing, is receiving considerable attention as it has the potential to transform many fields in engineering, including civil, mechanical, aerospace, and geotechnical engineering. Currently, there is a significant gap between the engineering science with fundamental research in academia and engineering practice with potential implementation in the industry. This REU program will train undergraduate students to serve as the catalysts to facilitate the research infusion between academic and industrial partners. This student-driven joint venture between academia and industry will establish a virtuous circle for knowledge exchange and contribute to advancing both fundamental research and implementation of SST. To achieve these, the program will feature: formal training, workshops, and supplemental activities in the conduct of research in academia and industry; innovative research experience through engagement in projects with scientific and practical merits in both academic and industrial environments; experience in conducting laboratory experiments; and opportunities to present the research outcomes to the broader community at professional settings. The joint efforts among two institutions and industry partners provide the project team with extensive access to valuable resources, such as expertise to offer a wider-range of informative training workshops, advanced equipment, valuable data sets, experienced undergraduate mentors, and professional connections, that will facilitate a meaningful REU experience. Recruitment of REU participants will target 20 collaborating minority and primarily undergraduate institutions (15 of them are Hispanic-Serving Institutions) with limited STEM research capabilities.