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

非技术描述：这个项目将提供10个本科生每年夏天与材料研究的介绍，鼓励有兴趣的学生追求在材料相关领域的研究生学位。在为期10周的项目中，学生将参加一个研究项目，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，领导力，道德和演示讲习班，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个刺激的队列经验。该项目还将支持一项教师计划，该计划将通过每年夏天为来自服务于大量代表性不足的少数民族和低社会经济地位人口的学校的四名教师提供专业发展，提高学生的科学成就。渐进式的暑期教师经验介绍教师材料研究超过六个星期，并包括在随后的夏天返回一个独立的，为期六周的研究经验，将使深入的exploration.Technical描述：广泛的实验和计算技术和材料研究课题将在此计划下完成的选项。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。在顶尖研究人员及其研究小组的指导下，参与的本科生和教师将建造科学设备，进行实验，模拟材料特性，分析数据，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估来支持。影响审查标准。

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.