REU Site: Integrated Nanomanufacturing

本次更新REU研究中心：波士顿大学（BU）的综合纳米制造将带来来自大学和两年制学院的本科生的多样化群体，他们的研究机会有限，可以在30多个潜在的跨学科实验室中进行夏季研究，这些实验室包括纳米技术，电气和计算机工程，生物医学工程，材料科学工程和/或BU查尔斯河校区的机械工程。纳米制造研究是纳米技术和制造交叉的新兴交叉学科领域。四个专题研究领域将作为这次更新的基础：1。纳米系统产生，感测和操纵，2。光子和电子纳米结构的纳米织物，3.纳米材料的合成和表征，以及4.纳米光子学神经光子学和光子器件的发展。纳米技术旨在开发和合成在纳米尺度上操纵，测量或控制物理过程的系统，而集成纳米制造则包括纳米纤维和材料研究。该网站致力于为来自不同工程学科的学生提供跨学科和变革性的体验，反映了集成纳米制造导师的多样性。在波士顿大学商业创新中心与创业公司合作的REU参与者的加入是这个REU网站的一个新的研究机会。在为期十周的暑期课程中，REU参与者将通过独特的基于问题的研究体验进行指导和指导，从基本技能建设到开放式发现，重点是发展研究独立性。 学生将参与指导发现，新设备的工程设计和纳米级制造，以探索光学和集成纳米级系统，同时培养必要的关键技能，意识和信心，以推动沿着他们的学术和研究职业道路。通过这个网站，学生将有机会通过演示文稿与BU的研究界分享他们的工作，并根据他们的研究提交给国家会议或合著出版物。NSF REU网站在集成纳米制造将提供一个网站的教育成员的下一代工程师在纳米技术的目的。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This renewal REU Site: Integrated Nanomanufacturing at Boston University (BU) will bring a diverse cohort of undergraduate students from universities and two-year colleges with limited research opportunities to engage in summer research in more than 30 potential interdisciplinary labs in Nanotechnology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science Engineering, and/or Mechanical Engineering at the BU Charles River campus. Nanomanufacturing research is an emerging interdisciplinary area at the intersection of nanotechnology and fabrication. Four thematic research areas will serve as the foundation for this renewal: 1. nanosystems that generate, sense, and manipulate, 2. nanofabrication of photonic and electronic nanostructures, 3. nanomaterials synthesis and characterization, and 4. nanophotonics neurophotonics and development of photonic devices. Nanotechnology seeks to develop and synthesize systems that manipulate, measure or control physical processes at the nanoscale, while integrated nanomanufacturing incorporates nanofabrication and materials research. This site is committed to offering an interdisciplinary and transformative experience to students from varying engineering disciplines that reflect the diversity of the mentors in Integrated Nanomanufacturing. The inclusion of REU participants working with startup companies in the Boston University Business Innovation Center is a new research opportunity in this REU site. Over a ten-week summer program, REU participants will be mentored and coached through a unique problem-based research experience, from basic skills building to open-ended discovery, with a focus on developing research independence. Students will participate in mentored discovery, engineering of new devices, and fabrication at the nanoscale level to explore optical and integrated nanoscale systems, while developing critical skills, awareness and confidence necessary to advance along their career pathways in academics and research. Through this site, students will gain the opportunity to share their work with the research community at BU through presentations and to also submit to national conferences or co-author publications based on their research. The NSF REU Site in Integrated Nanomanufacturing will provide a site with the aim of educating members of the next generation of engineers in nanotechnology.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.