REU site: Advanced Interdisciplinary Materials Research for Maritime Applications

非技术摘要该奖项在马萨诸塞州达特茅斯大学（UMassD）建立了一个新的本科生研究经验（REU）网站，为10名社区大学生的夏季队列提供令人兴奋的住宿环境，并参与与海洋经济相关的先进材料的跨学科研究。这个暑期项目由材料研究部和海洋科学部支持，首先是关于安全实验室实践，研究道德，研究沟通技巧的培训课程;包括研究仪器的实践经验，实地考察当地行业和国家研究实验室，以及职业咨询。夏季研究计划的高潮是口头研讨会，以及邀请知名海洋材料学者参加的工业和研究职业公开论坛。这个跨学科的网站整合了来自四个部门（生物工程，化学，土木环境工程和机械工程）的专业教育工作者的努力，他们在指导学生进行研究方面有很好的记录。整个暑期活动旨在帮助社区大学的学生在科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域寻找工作，或在四年制研究型大学接受教育，并与教师和学生建立有意义的关系。创新材料及其更广泛的应用对于提高船舶和海事结构的结构可靠性和生命周期性能、降低其环境足迹、使海事产业在全球范围内更加可行，从而创造和维持就业至关重要。STEM学科的许多年轻科学家自然对这些突出的挑战着迷，因为他们正在寻找更大的教育动力和服务社会的有意义的方式。这个REU网站的总体目标是帮助学者应对先进材料的挑战，并填补海洋技术转型所需材料知识的关键空白。该网站的REU参与者对项目进行独立研究，这些项目将利用和推进目前正在UMASS D进行的关于新材料的广泛研究，包括：非水氧化还原液流电池，多功能夹层复合材料，用于结构能量存储的功能复合材料，水下超疏水表面，触觉传感器，生物启发光子材料，超材料，颗粒材料，和纳米结构的表面。凭借这些研究项目的跨学科性质，教师和学生在不同领域互动并推动材料科学的发展。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。

Non-Technical SummaryThis award establishes a new Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMassD) to provide an exciting residential setting for summer cohorts of 10 community college students and involve in interdisciplinary research in advanced materials relevant to marine economy. This summer program supported by Division of Materials Research and Division of Ocean Sciences, begins with training sessions on safe laboratory practices, research ethics, research communication skills; and includes hands-on experience with research instrumentation, field trips to local industries and national research laboratories, and career advising. The summer research program culminates with an oral symposium, and open forum on industry and research careers with invited eminent marine materials scholars. This interdisciplinary site integrates the efforts of dedicated educators from four departments (Bioengineering, Chemistry, Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering) who have strong track records in mentoring students for research. The entire summer activities are designed to facilitate community college students to seek jobs in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields or pursue education in four-year research university and develop meaningful relationships with faculty and students. Technical SummaryInnovative materials and their broader use are vital to improve the structural reliability and life cycle performance of ships and maritime structures, to lower their environmental footprint, to make maritime industries more viable at a global scale and thus to generate and sustain employment. Many young scientists in STEM disciplines are naturally fascinated by these outstanding challenges as they search for a greater drive for their education and meaningful ways to serve society. The overarching goal of this REU site is to prepare scholars to address the challenges in advanced materials and fill critical gaps in knowledge on materials needed to transform marine technologies. The REU participants at this site conduct independent research on projects that will leverage and advance a wide range of studies on novel materials currently underway at UMassD, including: nonaqueous redox flow batteries, multi-functional sandwich composites, functional composite materials for structural energy storage, underwater super-hydrophobic surfaces, tactile sensors, bioinspired photonic materials, meta-materials, granular materials, and nanostructured surfaces for antifouling. With the inter-disciplinary nature of these research projects, faculty and students interact and advance the materials science across different fields.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.