REU Site: Particle-based Functional Materials for Energy, Sustainability, and Biomedicine

REU 网站：用于能源、可持续发展和生物医学的颗粒功能材料

• 批准号: 2050944
• 负责人: Joseph McCarthy
• 金额: $ 40.5万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050944&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Particle; based; Functional

Today's advances don't happen in isolation, but instead occur at the intersections of two or more technologies. This is especially true in biomedicine, sustainability, and energy. The focus of this three-year REU Site: Particle-based Functional Materials for Energy, Sustainability, and Biomedicine, at the University of Pittsburgh, is comprised of computational and experimental studies of materials that fulfill a specific function either because of their particulate nature or due to the influence of particles on structure. Such systems include: material self-healing, controlled delivery of therapeutics, “smart” catalysis, and particle separations, to name a few. This REU is based on the premise that the future engineer will need to seamlessly traverse the boundary between seemingly disparate technology areas. Toward that end the PFM-REU program explicitly focuses on enhancing students’ knowledge integration skills while building their base of knowledge in a specific area and training them to engage in product innovation. The program aims to model a holistic admissions process that weighs non-academic factors that have been suggested as predictive of student success. By doing so, the program aims to expand the reach and impact of the REU Site and also inform all holistic admissions processes at Pittsburgh.The goals of this 10 week summer program are to 1) admit a diverse and talented pool of 10 undergraduate researchers each year via holistic admissions techniques; 2) train these students to perform (increasingly independent) research over the course of their 10 week experience; 3) increase students’ ability to integrate knowledge within and across the focus area via the research-internship pairing and workshop series; and 4) prepare the students to engage in innovative product design. This is accomplished by combining the traditional research of an REU site with a tailored workshop series, a translation exercise, and an innovating "cross-training" internship.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.

今天的进步不是孤立发生的，而是发生在两种或多种技术的交叉点上。在生物医学、可持续发展和能源领域尤其如此。这个为期三年的REU网站的重点：基于粒子的功能材料的能源，可持续性和生物医学，在匹兹堡大学，是由材料的计算和实验研究，履行特定的功能，无论是因为他们的颗粒性质或由于颗粒对结构的影响。此类系统包括：材料自愈、治疗药物的受控输送、“智能”催化和颗粒分离等。这个REU是基于这样一个前提，即未来的工程师需要无缝地跨越看似不同的技术领域之间的边界。为此，PFM-REU计划明确侧重于提高学生的知识整合技能，同时建立他们在特定领域的知识基础，并培训他们参与产品创新。该计划旨在模拟一个整体的招生过程，权衡非学术因素，这些因素被认为是学生成功的预测因素。通过这样做，该计划旨在扩大REU网站的覆盖面和影响力，并为匹兹堡的所有整体招生过程提供信息。这个为期10周的暑期项目的目标是：1）通过整体招生技术，每年录取10名本科研究人员; 2）培养这些学生执行（越来越独立）的研究在他们的10周的经验过程中; 3）通过研究实习配对和研讨会系列提高学生的能力，整合知识内和跨重点领域;（4）培养学生从事创新产品设计的能力。这是通过将REU网站的传统研究与定制的研讨会系列，翻译练习和创新的"交叉培训"实习相结合来实现的。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。