REU Site: Interdisciplinary Materials Research for Undergraduates (REU) and Teachers (RET) in Materials

非技术描述：该项目每年夏天将为10名本科生提供材料研究的介绍，以鼓励有兴趣的学生在材料相关领域攻读研究生学位。在为期10周的项目中，学生将参与一个研究项目，融入一个研究小组，并与教师、博士后和研究生一起工作。通过指导、领导、道德和演讲研讨会、每周研讨会、实地考察、各种非正式活动和总结研讨会，创造了一种令人兴奋的群体体验。该项目还将支持一项教师计划，通过每年夏天为来自学校的四名教师提供专业培训，提高学生在科学方面的成绩，这些学校服务于大量未被充分代表的少数民族和低社会经济地位人群。渐进式暑期教师体验将教师引入为期六周的材料研究，并包括在随后的夏季进行独立的六周研究体验的选择，这将使深入探索成为可能。技术描述：广泛的实验和计算技术和材料研究课题将在该计划下完成。个人项目将包括计算设计、先进聚合物传感器的实验研究、能量存储技术和纳米材料的表征。在顶尖科研人员及其课题组的指导下，参与的本科生和教师将构建科学设备，进行实验，模拟材料特性，分析数据，并为一般材料知识库和自己的教育和培训做出贡献。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: This project will provide 10 undergraduate students each summer with an introduction to materials research, to encourage interested students to pursue a graduate degree in a materials-related field. During the 10-week project, students will participate in a research project, integrate into a research group, and work alongside faculty, postdocs, and graduate students. A stimulating cohort experience is created through mentoring, leadership, ethics, and presentation workshops, weekly seminars, field trips, a variety of informal activities, and a concluding symposium. The project will also support a teacher program that will increase student achievement in science by providing professional development each summer for four teachers from schools that serve large underrepresented minority and low socioeconomic status populations. The progressive summer teacher experience introduces teacher to materials research over six weeks and includes an option to return in a subsequent summer for an independent, six-week research experience that will enable in-depth exploration.TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: A wide range of experimental and computational techniques and materials research topics will be accomplished under this program. Individual projects will include computational design, experimental studies of advanced polymer sensors, energy storage technology and characterization of nanomaterials. With the guidance of top researchers and their research groups, the participating undergraduate students and teachers will construct scientific equipment, perform experiments, model material properties, analyze data, and contribute to the general materials knowledge base and to their own education and training.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.