REU Site: Undergraduate Research Integrating Computation and Experiment to Create Revolutionary Materials

非技术描述：科罗拉多矿业学院将举办本科生研究经验（REU）网站，重点培训具有材料科学和数据分析交叉专业知识的下一代科学家和工程师。为了给那些在自己的学校里研究机会有限的学生提供前沿的研究，我们积极地从社区学院和主要的本科院校招募学生。培训通过正式教学、实践研究、与数据密集型的当地实验室和企业合作以及准备和发表研究成果的公开演讲等方式进行。研究项目的重点是开发变革性材料，以实现从碳捕获到光伏到电池的新技术和应用。技术描述：REU网站在能源材料的背景下处理材料基因组计划。学生将获得生成、管理和分析大型材料科学数据集的经验。在结构和电子材料领域，空间研究项目非常多样化，从设计用于碳捕获的多孔材料到热电材料的发现，再到半导体薄膜的组合生长。这些研究项目本质上是跨学科的，涉及来自不同院系的教师及其附属研究生。其中许多项目涉及与国家实验室和相关用户设施或行业伙伴的密切合作。除了技术技能的发展外，还大力提高学生的专业技能和作为科学家的自我认同。总之，这些培训目标在最后一周达到高潮，为全国会议准备海报和相关介绍。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 DESCRIPTION: The Colorado School of Mines will host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on training the next generation of scientists and engineers with expertise at the intersection of materials science and data analytics. With the goal of providing cutting-edge research to students with limited research opportunities at their home institutions, students are actively recruited from community colleges and primarily undergraduate institutions. Training is occurring through formal instruction, hands-on research, engagement with data-intensive local laboratories and businesses, and preparing and delivering public presentations of research results. The research projects focus on developing transformative materials that enable new technologies and applications ranging from carbon capture to photovoltaics to batteries. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The REU site addresses the Materials Genome Initiative within the context energy materials. Students are gaining experience in the generation, curation, and analysis of large materials science datasets. Across the structural and electronic materials space research projects are quite diverse, ranging from designing porous materials for carbon capture to thermoelectric material discovery to the combinatorial growth of semiconductor films. The research projects are inherently interdisciplinary, involving faculty members from different departments and their affiliated graduate students. Many of these projects involve strong collaborations with national laboratory and associated user facilities or industry partners. Beyond technical skills development, significant effort is devoted to enhancing students’ professional skills and self-identity as a scientist. Together, these training objectives culminate in the final week with preparing a poster and associated presentation for a national conference.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.