REU Site: Engineering for Bouncing Back

REU 网站：反弹工程

• 批准号: 1852277
• 负责人: Meghna Babbar-Sebens
• 金额: $ 36万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852277&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Engineering; Bouncing; Back

Natural and anthropogenic stresses and shocks, such as hurricanes Katrina, Sandy, and Maria, recurring heat waves, and droughts in the West, lead contamination in drinking water at Flint, Michigan, economic distress in Detroit Michigan, and floods in the Mississippi River, have triggered communities across the US to consider resiliency in their preparedness and planning activities. There is critical need for research and education that advances a systems view of resilience, specifically, one that incorporates response, recovery, and mitigation via multitude of solutions spanning the built infrastructure systems, social institutions, emerging technologies, and stakeholder engagement and capacity-building in communities. To meet this need, a novel undergraduate research program on "Engineering for Bouncing Back" (EBB) will be developed at this REU site - one that integrates researchers and undergraduate students from Civil and Construction Engineering, Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science on the topic of resilience. The REU Site is built upon ongoing research in the field of Resiliency at Oregon State University, and offers exciting interdisciplinary research opportunities to undergraduates nationwide. Technical research projects coupled with a suite of REU activities will be offered at this REU site to enable the accomplishment of research and education goals, specifically: (1) Advance the science on interdisciplinary methods, tools, and technologies used towards (a) improving resiliency of built infrastructure systems, (b) improving resiliency of ecosystems and natural resources, (c) improving capacity for community resilience, and (d) improving capability for risk and resilience assessment in communities, and (2) Improvement of the ability of students to employ Systems Thinking skills in solving complex resiliency research problems, and increase their motivation to pursue interdisciplinary graduate research.Each undergraduate student will be part of a research team comprising of a primary faculty mentor, faculty collaborators (from multiple socio-technical disciplines), and graduate student. In addition to research projects, students will participate in cohort-building activities such as, field trips to communities facing unique resiliency challenges, and a movie night focused on community resilience stories. Professional development will be comprised of activities such as weekly skill-building workshops and panels, a 10-page project report, and the final EBB REU symposium. Applications will be sought from highly motivated underrepresented and minority students at quarter-term institutions and related programs. Broader EBB REU recruiting efforts will take place at national conferences for undergraduate engineering students from underrepresented groups.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.

自然和人为的压力和冲击，例如卡特里娜飓风、桑迪飓风和玛丽亚飓风、反复出现的热浪和西部干旱、密歇根州弗林特饮用水铅污染、密歇根州底特律的经济困境以及密西西比河的洪水，已促使美国各地的社区在准备和规划活动中考虑弹性。迫切需要研究和教育来推进复原力的系统观，特别是通过涵盖已建基础设施系统、社会机构、新兴技术以及利益相关者参与和社区能力建设的多种解决方案，将响应、恢复和缓解纳入其中。为了满足这一需求，REU 将开发一项名为“反弹工程”(EBB) 的新型本科生研究项目，该项目汇集了来自土木与建筑工程、化学、生物与环境工程、电气工程和计算机科学领域的研究人员和本科生，以复原力为主题。 REU 站点建立在俄勒冈州立大学复原力领域持续研究的基础上，为全国本科生提供令人兴奋的跨学科研究机会。该 REU 基地将提供技术研究项目以及一系列 REU 活动，以实现研究和教育目标，特别是：(1) 推进跨学科方法、工具和技术的科学发展，用于 (a) 提高建成基础设施系统的复原力，(b) 提高​​生态系统和自然资源的复原力，(c) 提高社区复原能力，以及 (d) 提高社区复原能力 社区中的风险和复原力评估，以及（2）提高学生运用系统思维技能解决复杂的复原力研究问题的能力，并提高他们从事跨学科研究生研究的动力。每个本科生都将成为由主要教师导师、教师合作者（来自多个社会技术学科）和研究生组成的研究团队的一部分。除了研究项目外，学生还将参加队列建设活动，例如对面临独特弹性挑战的社区进行实地考察，以及关注社区弹性故事的电影之夜。专业发展将包括每周的技能建设研讨会和小组讨论、10 页的项目报告以及最终的 EBB REU 研讨会等活动。申请将面向季度院校和相关项目中积极性不足的少数族裔学生。更广泛的 EBB REU 招募工作将在全国会议上针对代表性不足群体的本科工程学生进行。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。