MRI: Acquisition of 3D Imaging and Printing Instrumentation to Support Interdisciplinary Research at Indiana University of Pennsylvania

该奖项将资助收购结构化白光3D表面扫描仪。结构化白光扫描使用投射的光线和光学相机来捕捉物体表面的地形和纹理。这些扫描仪准确且便携，在考古学、工程学和形态学领域很受欢迎。这个新工具将在宾夕法尼亚大学（IUP）的印第安纳州三个学院的五个部门产生直接影响。 它将通过扩大IUP本科研究人员的机会来增强研究环境，促进校园内以及与非营利组织，政府和行业合作伙伴的新合作。IUP是一个以本科为主的机构，服务于农村学生人口，包括许多第一代大学生，并为学生提供动手研究的机会。该仪器将服务于多个学科，并提供给IUP的所有部门，并有可能为附近的学术机构和区域非营利组织和行业合作伙伴提供更多用户。该奖项将支持来自人类学，生物学，化学，地球科学等部门的研究人员在IUP，为跨学科研究开辟新的机会。由所要求的仪器启用的教师和学生研究涵盖了广泛的主题，例如：1）测量已灭绝脊椎动物的质心变化，2）脊椎动物化石的形态鉴定，3）扩大人类遗骸和动物考古数字类型库，4）对奥克兰劳埃德恐龙采石场的生物地层学进行数字评估，并进行更准确的化石运输的实际埋藏实验，5）确定军官个人防护装备（PPE）和执勤装备的个性化配合与生物力学性能之间的关系，6）可视化中生代哺乳动物的脑内模、中耳和内耳以及牙齿形状的形态，（第7段）该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响评审标准。

This award will fund the acquisition of a structured white-light 3D surface scanner. Structured white-light scanning uses a projected line of light and optical cameras to capture the topography and texture of an object’s surface. Accurate and portable, these scanners have become popular in the fields of archaeology, engineering, and morphology. This new tool will have immediate impact in five departments across three colleges at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). It will enhance the research environment by broadening the opportunities available to undergraduate researchers at IUP, promoting new collaborations on campus and with non-profit, government, and industry partners. IUP is a predominantly undergraduate institution serving a rural student demographic, including many first-generation college students, and providing hands-on research opportunities to students. The instrumentation will serve multiple disciplines and be available to all departments at IUP, with the potential for additional users from nearby academic institutions and regional non-profit and industry partners. This award will support researchers from the departments of Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, Geoscience, and others at IUP, opening new opportunities for interdisciplinary research. The faculty and student research enabled by the requested instrumentation spans a wide range of topics, such as: 1) measuring center-of-mass change in extinct vertebrates, 2) morphometric identification of fossil vertebrates, 3) expanding a human remains and zooarcheological digital type library, 4) digital assessments of biostratinomy at the Cleveland-Lloyd dinosaur quarry and more accurate actualistic taphonomic experiments of fossil transport, 5) determining the relationship between personalized fit and biomechanical performance of officer personal protective equipment (PPE) and duty gear, 6) visualizing the morphology of the brain endocast, the middle and inner ear, and the tooth shape of Mesozoic mammals, and 7) analysis of protein binding site domains.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.