REU Site: Thermal Management on Multiple Scales

圣路易斯华盛顿大学的这个REU网站的主要目标是扩大学生在多个尺度上参与热管理研究，并吸引各种好奇，积极主动的学生进入工程职业。庞大而多样化的STEM劳动力对全球竞争力至关重要。这个REU网站将通过两个行之有效的策略，帮助增加妇女和代表性不足的少数民族在工程职业生涯的参与：（1）提供本科研究经验和（2）通过接触各种工业，创业和学术职业选择教学生工程的社会重要性;图尔斯;和工程师的讨论。学生将学习涉及热和电力的研究课题，从新颖的电池技术，到微电子和电力电子的增强冷却，再到碳捕获过程中的辐射。这将使学生接触到一系列工程挑战，研究方法和职业，以满足对热流体工程师不断扩大的需求。该网站将通过教学生如何通过口头演讲，海报和书面论文或报告进行交流，为学生的职业生涯做好准备。为了进一步扩大参与，学生们将开展一个外展项目，协助在华盛顿大学的大学预科课程中向服务不足的高中生教授一门短期工程课程。控制温度和热能传输（热管理）的能力对于应对最重要的全球挑战至关重要：清洁和可再生能源生产;廉价、高效和可靠的运输;以及不断增长的数据存储和处理需求。这个REU网站将推进目前对基本传热和传质的理解，同时将发现转化为纳米/微米尺度，组件和系统尺度的热管理应用技术。在夏季的10周内，学生将沉浸在与新兴技术相关的研究项目中，如金属空气电池和纳米流体和微/纳米结构热传输增强，同时还学习热流体工程师在微/电力电子，化学/材料加工，运输和能源行业中的作用。该网站将是跨学科的，从机械和化学工程的角度接近热管理的主题。活动将包括与教师共进午餐，研究技能研讨会，实验室/行业图尔斯参观，准备GRE，和社会活动。参与者将与主要研究者进行多个一对一的咨询会议，以确定和制定实现个人目标的计划，并在夏季结束后跟踪学生的进度。夏季将与学生准备技术报告，会议论文集或期刊文章，以及通过海报和口头报告在最后的研究研讨会上展示他们的研究成果达到高潮。在暑期实习结束后的秋季，部分学生将可以选择在ASME国际机械工程会议和博览会或AIChe学生会议上展示他们的海报。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

The primary objectives of this REU site at Washington University in St. Louis are to expand student participation in thermal management research on multiple scales and to attract a diverse pool of curious, motivated students into engineering careers. A large and diverse STEM workforce is critical to global competitiveness. This REU site will help increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in engineering careers through two proven strategies: (1) providing undergraduate research experience and (2) teaching students the societal importance of engineering through exposure to a variety of industrial, entrepreneurial, and academic career options; tours; and discussions with engineers. Students will study research topics involving heat and power, ranging from novel battery technologies, to enhanced cooling of micro-electronics and power electronics, to radiation in carbon capture processes. This will expose students to a range of engineering challenges, research methodologies, and careers that address the ever-expanding need for thermal-fluids engineers. The site will prepare students for their careers by teaching them how to communicate through oral presentations, posters, and written papers or reports. To further broaden participation, students will undertake an outreach project by assisting in teaching a short engineering course to underserved high school students in Washington University's College Prep program. The ability to control temperature and the transfer of thermal energy (thermal management) is critical to addressing the most important global challenges: clean and renewable energy production; inexpensive, efficient and reliable transportation; and ever-increasing data storage and processing demands. This REU site will advance the current understanding of fundamental heat and mass transfer, while translating discoveries to applied technologies for thermal management at the nano-/microscale, component, and system scales. For 10 weeks during the summer, students will be immersed in research projects tied to emerging technologies, such as metal-air batteries and nanofluidic and micro-/nanostructural thermal transport enhancement, while also learning the role of thermal-fluids engineers in the micro-/power electronics, chemical/material processing, transportation, and energy industries. The site will be interdisciplinary, approaching topics in thermal management from mechanical and chemical engineering perspectives. Activities will include lunches with faculty, research skills seminars, lab/industry tours, preparation for the GRE, and social activities. Participants will have multiple one-on-one advising sessions with the Principle Investigator to define and develop a plan for achieving personal goals, and students' progress will be tracked after the summer ends. The summer will culminate with students preparing a technical report, conference proceeding, or journal article as well as presenting their research results through a poster and oral presentation at a final research symposium. The fall after their summer experience, some of the students will have the choice of presenting their posters at ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition or AIChe's Student Conference.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.