Travel Grant: Consortium for the Advancement of Shape Memory Alloy Research and Technology 3rd International Student Design Competition; Konstanz, Germany; May 12-17, 2019

旅费资助：形状记忆合金研究与技术促进联盟第三届国际学生设计竞赛；

• 批准号: 1926074
• 负责人: Aaron Stebner
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Colorado School of Mines
• 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: 2019-04-15 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1926074&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; Grant; Consortium; Advancement; Shape

This grant provides travel support for undergraduate and graduate students to take part in the Consortium for the Advancement of Shape Memory Alloy Research and Technology (CASMART) 3rd International Student Design Competition to be held in Konstanz, Germany from May 12-17, 2019. The design competition will be held as part of the International Conference on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies (SMST). Building on the success of past conferences, SMST 2019 will be the premier forum for sharing and dissemination of the latest scientific, engineering, and technology advances in field of smart materials. This is the 3rd installment of the design competition with a healthy history of US participation. Students will present their solutions to design challenges in various industries, such as astronautics and medicine. The designs will be developed by students based on the creative use of engineering theories and methods, engineering design principles, and mentorship provided by CASMART members. Not only will the students be exposed to the interesting work of fellow competitors, they will also be exposed to world class academic and industrial research in an international environment, which will foster their personal and professional growth.Toward ensuring a workforce to sustain that growth, as well as current market and R&D needs, CAMSART held its first international student design competition in 2015 and has repeated it every-other year since then in conjunction with the SMST conference. This grant will support undergraduate and graduate students participating in this design competition to travel to the conference to present their designs in paper, poster, and hardware demonstration formats. Specifically, there are 14 student teams registered for the competition representing five US Universities: Colorado School of Mines, Texas A&M, University of Minnesota, University of Toledo, and University of North Texas. The student teams will compete their designs for: deployment and orientation mechanisms for solar arrays that power smallsats, compact deployable communications dishes with curvature correction, heat engines for recovering energy from power plant waste heat streams, and advancements in the state of the art for Tourniquets and scoliosis spinal curvature prevention devices. CASMART will collect the student papers and condense them into a full length, peer reviewed article on the advancements in the state of the art in SMA alloy and application design practices and tools.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.

该补助金为本科生和研究生提供旅行支持，参加将于2019年5月12日至17日在德国康斯坦茨举行的形状记忆合金研究与技术促进联盟（CASMART）第三届国际学生设计竞赛。设计竞赛将作为形状记忆和超弹性技术国际会议（SMST）的一部分举行。在过去会议成功的基础上，SMST 2019将成为分享和传播智能材料领域最新科学，工程和技术进展的首要论坛。这是该设计竞赛的第三期，美国的参与历史良好。学生将提出他们的解决方案，以设计在各个行业的挑战，如制药和医药。这些设计将由学生根据创造性地使用工程理论和方法，工程设计原则以及CASMART成员提供的指导来开发。学生不仅将接触到竞争对手的有趣工作，他们还将在国际环境中接触到世界一流的学术和工业研究，这将促进他们的个人和专业成长。为了确保劳动力持续增长，以及当前的市场和&研发需求，CAMART于2015年举办了第一届国际学生设计竞赛，此后每隔一年与SMST会议一起举办一次。该补助金将支持参加本次设计竞赛的本科生和研究生前往会议，以纸张，海报和硬件演示格式展示他们的设计。具体来说，有14个学生代表队报名参加比赛，代表五所美国大学：科罗拉多矿业学院，得克萨斯州A M，明尼苏达大学，托莱多大学和北得克萨斯大学。学生团队将竞争他们的设计：为小卫星提供动力的太阳能阵列的部署和定向机制，具有曲率校正的紧凑型可部署通信碟，用于从发电厂废热流中回收能量的热力发动机，以及最先进的止血带和脊柱侧弯脊柱弯曲预防装置。CASMART将收集学生论文并将其浓缩成一篇完整的同行评审文章，介绍SMA合金和应用设计实践和工具的最新进展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。