REU Site: Intelligent Energetic Systems Engineering (INTENSE) REU

为期三年的REU网站：新墨西哥州采矿与技术学院(NMIMT，新墨西哥理工学院)的智能高能系统工程(SENTIAL)每年将吸引8名本科生参与与机器人、智能材料、炸药、火箭推进剂、无人机和冲击物理相关的独特研究。一种明显的需求持续存在，即需要更多具有研究经验的美国公民来填补全国各地的科学和工程职位，特别是国防部(DOD)、能源部(DOE)和美国国家航空航天局(NASA)综合体及相关工业基地。参与该REU网站的学生将发展技能和研究经验，以潜在地满足这些招聘需求。在暑期研究体验期间，每个学生参与者将在NMIMT教职员工的指导下完成个人研究项目，培养他们的技能、知识和接触科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科。学生将研究智能系统和能量系统的跨学科工程和科学，包括探索气动无人机设计和控制的具体项目，以及添加制造的火箭推进剂的开发。参与者将通过参观桑迪亚国家实验室和白沙导弹靶场，接触到NMIMT的尖端研究设施和著名的国家设施。学生将从本科生研究机会有限的机构招生，特别是在美国西南部地区。激烈的REU将集中招聘STEM职业生涯中代表性不足的群体，包括西班牙裔、美国原住民和退伍军人，以支持NMIMT的拉美裔服务机构地位。为期三年的REU网站：新墨西哥州采矿与技术学院(NMIMT，新墨西哥理工学院)的智能高能系统工程(SENTIAL)每年将吸引8名本科生参与与机器人、智能材料、炸药、火箭推进剂、无人机和冲击物理相关的独特研究。REU的强烈目标和影响是提高人们对STEM研究和研究生学习的兴趣，增加对智能和充满活力的系统的技术知识，扩大参与者的“工程工具箱”，增加对STEM职业机会的接触，增加少数族裔和代表性不足人群的STEM机会，并与学生队列和教师导师发展长期的社会和指导关系和机会。每年夏天，八名学生将参加一个为期十周的项目，在教师和研究生导师的指导下，在实验室进行研究。包括炸药、推进、冲击物理和高速撞击在内的高能系统主题在全国极少的大学教授，NMIMT是该领域公认的全国领先者。紧张的REU参与者将接触到正在进行的独特研究，这些研究通过一系列联邦资助机制进行，包括与联邦资助的研究和开发中心(FFRDC)的合作。参与者将通过实践研究和一系列小组工具箱开发活动来拓宽他们的工程学“工具箱”，这些活动涵盖的主题包括：图书馆资源、实验规划和数据分析、研究生院应用、创业工程和技术交流。REU的参与者将通过社交、小组和指导活动建立同伴和导师关系，这将促进终身学习。他们将在每年夏末在NMIMT举行的技术海报会议上向社会展示他们的研究成果。对教师和研究生的导师培训将改善人际关系，提高研究效率，并提供与REU学生的长期联系。定向招生将吸引来自代表性不足群体的学生参与STEM研究，目标是增加在STEM领域的坚持性，并扩大国家劳动力的多样性。该网站由国防部与国家科学基金会REU计划合作支持。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。

The three-year renewal REU Site: Intelligent Energetic Systems Engineering (INTENSE) at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMIMT, New Mexico Tech) will engage 8 undergraduate students each year in unique research related to robotics, smart materials, explosives, rocket propellants, drones, and shock physics. A distinct need persists for more U.S. citizens with research experience to fill science and engineering positions across the country, particularly for the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Energy (DOE), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) complexes and associated industrial bases. Students involved in this REU site will develop skills and research experiences to potentially fill these hiring needs. During the summer research experience each student participant will complete an individual research project with mentorship from NMIMT faculty, building their skills, knowledge, and exposure to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The students will investigate the interdisciplinary engineering and science of intelligent systems and energetic systems, including specific projects to explore aerodynamic drone design and control, and development of additively manufactured rocket propellants. Participants will be exposed to cutting edge research facilities at NMIMT and at prominent national facilities through tours of Sandia National Laboratories and White Sands Missile Range. Students will be recruited from institutions with limited undergraduate research opportunities, especially in the Southwestern U.S. region. The INTENSE REU will have focused recruitment from groups underrepresented in STEM careers including Hispanic, Native American, and Veteran populations, supporting NMIMT’s Hispanic Serving Institution status. The three-year renewal REU Site: Intelligent Energetic Systems Engineering (INTENSE) at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMIMT, New Mexico Tech) will engage 8 undergraduate students each year in unique research related to robotics, smart materials, explosives, rocket propellants, drones, and shock physics. The INTENSE REU objectives and impacts are to increase interest in STEM research and graduate studies, increase technical knowledge of Intelligent and Energetic Systems, expand participants’ “Engineering Toolbox”, increase exposure to STEM career opportunities, enhance STEM opportunities for minority and under-represented populations, and develop long-term social and mentoring relationships and opportunities with student cohorts and faculty mentors. Each summer, eight students will participate in a ten-week program conducting research in laboratories with faculty and graduate student mentors. Energetic systems topics including explosives, propulsion, shock physics, and high-rate impacts are taught at extremely few universities nationally, with NMIMT being a recognized national leader in the field. INTENSE REU participants will be exposed to ongoing unique research that is being performed through a range of federal funding mechanisms, including collaboration with federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). Participants will broaden their engineering “toolbox” through hands-on research and a series of group Toolbox Development Activities covering topics including: library resources, experiment planning and data analysis, graduate school applications, entrepreneurial engineering, and technical communication. REU participants will build peer and mentor relationships through social, group, and mentoring activities which will enhance life-long learning. They will present their research to the community though a technical poster conference held at NMIMT at the end of each summer. Mentor training for faculty and graduate students will improve relationships, increase research effectiveness, and provide long-term connections with REU students. Targeted recruitment will engage students from underrepresented groups in STEM research with the goal of increasing persistence in STEM fields and expanding the diversity of the national workforce.This Site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the National Science Foundation REU program.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.