REU Site: Tomorrow's Nanomanufacturing: Engineering with Science (TNEWS)

阿肯色大学(UA)微电子-光子学REU网站明天的纳米制造：工程与科学(TNEWS)将以发现为重点的研究与专业技能培训相结合，以培养新兴一代的领导者，以加快纳米级材料、器件和工艺向商业制造的转化。为了提供跨学科的培训以及培养创新、团队合作和道德，来自科学和工程学科的教师与纳米制造领域的行业领先者合作，在设计、计量、沟通和领导经验的框架内指导REU参与者的实验室发现。参与者将从UA的少数群体服务机构合作伙伴和STEM女学生协会招募，以扩大STEM的参与，并特别考虑第一代和经济困难的学生。参与者将得到成功企业家的指导，将发现转化为知识产权，从中可以出现同行评议的出版物、专利申请和纳米制造衍生产品。随着TNEWS REU校友晋升为纳米制造领域的领导者，他们的长期参与将得到促进。这个位于UA的REU网站旨在提供(I)有益的研究经验，将科学与工程联系起来；(Ii)培训，以使用与纳米制造相关的广泛适用的新兴技术；以及(Iii)为从工程学专业人数不足的理工科本科生招募的REU参与者发展专业技能，特别是第一代和经济困难的学生。REU的参与者将开展以学生为重点的研究项目，主题从量子到纳米级材料发现，再到集成纳米架构的设备和系统。项目的目标是生物、传感器、能源和电磁技术，这些技术提供可商业化的创新，从中可以出现同行评议的出版物、专利申请和纳米制造衍生产品。REU的参与者将定期与他们直接研究实验室之外的教职员工和行业导师互动，以促进学生的研究和进步。这尤其有利于妇女和少数族裔。TNEWS将利用一个经过测试的体验式学习框架对参与者进行创新、设计、计量、团队合作、沟通、伦理和领导力方面的培训，该框架已为最近五个UA纳米技术衍生产品做出了贡献。将这些经验与队列建设活动和指导学生分享相结合，将培养出一批未来的新兴领导者-S纳米制造劳动力，他们掌握个人和社区价值之间的复杂互动，有效且负责任地将研究发现转化为可创造显著效益的商业化创新。项目评估员将使用新的和经过验证的评估方法分析与九个不同学习目标相关的结果，以确保参与者的进步，并完善和发展TNEWS REU网站的管理。

The Microelectronics-Photonics REU site for Tomorrow's Nanomanufacturing: Engineering with Science (TNEWS)at the University of Arkansas (UA) merges discovery-focused research with professional skills training to prepare a rising generation of leaders to speed translation of nano-scale materials, devices and processes to commercial manufacturing. To provide trans-disciplinary training as well as cultivate innovation, teamwork, and ethics, faculty from science and engineering disciplines collaborate with industry leaders in nanomanufacturing to mentor REU participants in laboratory discoveries within a framework of experiences in design, metrology, communication, and leadership. Participants will be recruited from minority-serving institution partners of UA and societies for female STEM students to broaden participation in STEM, with special consideration given to first-generation and economically disadvantaged students. Participants will be mentored by successful entrepreneurs to transform discovery to intellectual property from which peer-reviewed publications, patent applications and nanomanufacturing spinouts can emerge. Long-term engagement among TNEWS REU alumni will be facilitated as they advance to leadership in nanomanufacturing.This REU Site at UA aims to provide (i) rewarding research experiences that bridge science and engineering; (ii) training to use broadly applicable emerging technologies relevant to nanomanufacturing; and (iii) development of professional skills to REU participants recruited from science and engineering undergraduates who are underrepresented in engineering, particularly first-generation and economically disadvantaged students. REU participants will conduct student-focused research projects on topics ranging from quantum to nanoscale materials discovery to devices and systems that integrate nanoarchitectures. Projects target biological, sensor, energy and electromagnetic technologies that offer commercializable innovations from which peer-reviewed publications, patent applications and nanomanufacturing spinouts can emerge. REU participants will interact regularly with faculty and industry mentors outside their immediate research laboratory to enhance student research and progress. This especially benefits women and minorities. TNEWS will train participants in innovation, design, metrology, teamwork, communication, ethics and leadership using a tested experiential learning framework that has contributed to five recent UA nanotech spin-offs. Integrating these experiences with cohort-building activities and mentored student sharing will nurture a cadre of emerging leaders in tomorrow?s nanomanufacturing workforce who grasp complex interactions between personal and community values to effectively and responsibly transform research discovery to commercializable innovations that create significant benefit. Outcomes relative to nine discrete learning objectives will be analyzed by a program evaluator using both novel and proven assessment methodologies to ensure participant progress and to refine and develop administration of the TNEWS REU site.