REU Site: Intelligent Energetic Systems Engineering (INTENSE)

新墨西哥州采矿与技术学院(NMIMT，新墨西哥理工学院)的智能高能系统工程(Enhent)REU将让本科生从事与机器人、智能材料、炸药、高速流体动力学和冲击物理相关的独特研究。显然，需要更多具有研究经验的美国公民来填补全国各地的科学和工程职位，特别是国防部(DOD)、能源部(DOE)和美国国家航空航天局(NASA)综合体及相关工业基地。参与REU的学生将完成与NMIMT联邦资助的研究直接相关的个人研究和设计项目；培养技能、知识，并接触与这些国家招聘需求相关的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科。这些研究项目将调查智能和高能系统的跨学科工程和科学，包括探索人-机器人相互作用和反馈的具体项目，以及反应高能材料系统的复杂化学-热-流体-动力学。参与者将通过参观桑迪亚国家实验室和柯特兰空军基地太空飞行器和定向能导演，接触到NMIMT的尖端研究设施和著名的国家设施。学生将主要从本科生研究机会有限的美国西南部院校招生。密集的REU将集中招聘未被充分代表的西班牙裔、美国原住民和退伍军人少数群体，以支持NMIMT？S拉美裔服务机构的地位。REU的强烈目标和影响是提高人们对STEM研究和研究生学习的兴趣，增加智能和活力系统的技术知识，增加研究技能，增加对STEM职业机会的接触，让学生参与STEM长期指导关系，并增加少数族裔和代表性不足人口的STEM机会。每年夏天，八名学生将参加一个为期九周的项目，与教职员工和研究生导师一起在实验室进行研究，探索智能和充满活力的系统。包括炸药、推进、冲击物理和高速撞击在内的高能系统主题在全国极少的大学教授，NMIMT是该领域公认的全国领先者。紧张的REU参与者将接触到涉及智能和能量系统的独特研究，这些研究通过一系列联邦资助机制进行，包括联邦资助的研发中心(FFRDC)的支持。学员将拓宽他们的工程工具箱？通过实践研究和一系列小组工具箱开发活动，涵盖的主题包括：图书馆资源、实验规划、数据分析和技术交流。学生们将通过每周一次的社交午餐聚会以及在NMIMT举行的夏末技术会议上发表三分钟的演讲和技术海报，与彼此以及他们的教职员工和研究生导师建立联系。对教师和研究生的导师培训将改善人际关系，提高研究效率，并提供与REU学生的长期联系。有针对性的招生将导致无法在本科院校获得研究机会的少数族裔学生接触到符合国家利益的STEM研究，从而扩大国家劳动力的多样性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Intelligent Energetic Systems Engineering (INTENSE) REU at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMIMT, New Mexico Tech) will engage undergraduate students in unique research related to robotics, smart materials, explosives, high-speed fluid dynamics, and shock physics. There is a distinct need for more US citizens with research experience to fill science and engineering positions across the country, particularly for the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Energy (DOE), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) complexes and associated industrial bases. Students involved in this REU will complete individual research and design projects directly related to federally-funded research being performed at NMIMT; building skills, knowledge, and exposure to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines relevant to these national hiring needs. The research projects will investigate the interdisciplinary engineering and science of intelligent and energetic systems, including specific projects to explore human-robot interactions and feedback, and the complex chemical-thermo-fluid-dynamics of reacting energetic material systems. Participants will be exposed to cutting edge research facilities at NMIMT and at prominent national facilities through tours of Sandia National Laboratories and Kirtland Air Force Base Space Vehicles and Directed Energy Directorates. Students will be recruited primarily from Southwestern US institutions with limited undergraduate research opportunities. INTENSE REU will have focused recruitment of under-represented populations of Hispanic, Native American, and Veteran minorities, supporting NMIMT?s Hispanic Serving Institution status. The INTENSE REU objectives and impacts are to increase interest in STEM research and graduate studies, increase technical knowledge of Intelligent and Energetic Systems, increase research skills, increase exposure to STEM career opportunities, engage students in long-term STEM mentoring relationships, and enhance STEM opportunities for minority and under-represented populations. Each summer, eight students will participate in a nine-week program conducting research in laboratories with faculty and graduate student mentors, exploring intelligent and energetic systems. Energetic systems topics including explosives, propulsion, shock physics, and high-rate impacts are taught at extremely few universities nationally, with NMIMT being a recognized national leader in the field. INTENSE REU participants will be exposed to unique research involving intelligent and energetic systems that is being performed through a range of federal funding mechanisms, including support from federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). Participants will broaden their engineering ?toolbox? through hands-on research and a series of group Toolbox Development Activities covering topics including: library resources, experiment planning, data analysis, and technical communication. Students will connect with each other and their faculty and graduate-student mentors through weekly social lunch gatherings and by presenting a three-minute speech and technical poster in an end-of-summer technical conference held at NMIMT. Mentor training for faculty and graduate students will improve relationships, increase research effectiveness, and provide long-term connections with REU students. Targeted student recruitment will result in under-represented minority students with no access to research at their undergraduate institutions to be exposed to STEM research of national interest, and thus expanding the diversity of the national workforce.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.