REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experiences in Advanced Air Mobility for Undergraduates (IREAAMU)

这是一个由田纳西诺克斯维尔大学主办的名为“REU站点：本科生高级空中机动性跨学科研究体验(IREAAMU)”的REU站点的为期三年的新提案。每年将有10名学生进行与空中机动性相关的项目和技术的研究。该项目将寻求增加女性、代表性不足的少数群体和残疾人在该部门的参与。气候变化、人口过剩和交通拥堵是构成前所未有的社会挑战的紧迫问题。安全、高效、公平和可持续的交通系统有望缓解这些挑战和问题。先进航空机动性(AAM)已经成为一种颠覆性的技术，它通过实现先进航空运输的变革性范式，例如城市、郊区和农村地区的新型客运或货运服务，提供了一种创建此类运输系统的方法。AAM的研究不仅仅是指电动垂直起降(EVTOL)技术等新飞机设计，也不仅仅是关注工程。人的因素和社会因素对AAM也是至关重要的。交通管理和公共政策方面的研究也可以是AAM研究的一种形式。AAM的研究是跨学科的，需要理论发展、分析建模、综合模拟、实验测试和现实世界的实施。这个为期10周的暑期REU项目为学生提供了一个友好的环境，让他们与不同的AAM专家团队密切合作。其目标是通过研究实现安全、高效、公平和可持续的交通系统所需的新技术、基础设施和政策来培养下一代AAM专家。这是一个由田纳西诺克斯维尔大学主办的为期三年的REU站点的新提案，标题为“REU站点：本科生高级空中机动性的跨学科研究经验(IREAAMU)”。每年将有10名学生进行与空中机动性相关的项目和技术的研究。该项目将寻求增加女性、代表性不足的少数群体和残疾人在该部门的参与。通过有针对性的招生战略，这个REU网站将促进未被充分代表的少数族裔参与本科生研究，特别是在AAM领域。利用UTK与历史悠久的黑人学院和大学的现有关系，田纳西州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟和切入点！根据美国科学促进会的计划，每年夏天将从研究机会有限的学院和大学招募10名学生。拟议的研究项目，连同由香港伙伴大学招聘和支持的国际学生的专业发展活动和网络机会，为学生提供了在跨学科的高级管理领域令人兴奋和吸引人的经验。参与者将与人口统计学上不同的、跨学科的教师导师及其研究团队在与AAM的各个方面相关的项目上密切合作。REU的学生将接触到最先进的AAM技术，参与设计、建模、规划和操作新的AAM概念的过程，并参观实验室和公司，探索AAM如何实现安全、高效、公平和可持续的交通系统。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This is a three-year new proposal for an REU Site titled, "REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experiences in Advanced Air Mobility for Undergraduates (IREAAMU)", hosted by the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Ten students each year will conduct research related to air mobility related projects and technologies. The project will seek to increase participation of female, underrepresented minorities, and people with disabilities in the sector. Climate change, overpopulation, and traffic congestion are pressing issues that pose unprecedented societal challenges. Safe, efficient, equitable, and sustainable transportation systems are promising to alleviate these challenges and issues. Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) has emerged as a disruptive technology that offers a way to create such transportation systems by enabling transformative paradigms for advanced air transportation such as novel passenger or cargo-carrying services in urban, suburban, and rural areas. AAM research does not simply refer to new aircraft designs such as the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) technology and does not only focus on engineering. Human and societal factors are also critical to AAM. Research in transportation management and public policies can also be a form of AAM research. AAM research is interdisciplinary and requires theoretical development, analytical modeling, integrative simulation, experimental tests, and real-world implementation. This 10-week summer REU program provide a welcoming environment for students to work closely with a diverse group of AAM experts. The goal is to train the next-generation AAM experts by investigating novel technologies, infrastructures, and polices needed for enabling safe, efficient, equitable, and sustainable transportation systems.This is a three-year new proposal for an REU Site titled, "REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experiences in Advanced Air Mobility for Undergraduates (IREAAMU)", hosted by the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Ten students each year will conduct research related to air mobility related projects and technologies. The project will seek to increase participation of female, underrepresented minorities, and people with disabilities in the sector. Through a targeted recruiting strategy, this REU site will bolster the participation of under-represented minorities in undergraduate research, particularly in the AAM area. Leveraging UTK’s existing relationships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the Tennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, and the Entry Point! program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, ten students each summer from colleges and universities with limited research opportunities will be recruited. The proposed research projects, along with the professional development activities and networking opportunities with international students recruited and supported by partner universities from Hong Kong, provides students with exciting and engaging experiences in the interdisciplinary AAM field. Participants will work closely with a demographically diverse, interdisciplinary group of faculty mentors and their research teams on projects related to various aspects of AAM. The REU students will be exposed to the state-of-the-art AAM technologies, participate in the process of designing, modeling, planning, and operating new AAM concepts, and visit labs and companies to explore how AAM can enable safe, efficient, equitable, and sustainable transportation systems.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.