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，专注于培养下一代科学家和工程师，他们在材料科学和数据分析的交叉领域拥有专业知识。 为了向在家乡机构研究机会有限的学生提供前沿研究，学生们积极从社区学院和主要的本科院校招募。培训是通过正式教学，动手研究，与数据密集型的地方实验室和企业的接触，以及准备和提供研究成果的公开演示来进行的。这些研究项目的重点是开发变革性材料，以实现从碳捕获到光催化剂再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解决了材料基因组计划。 学生正在获得大型材料科学数据集的生成，管理和分析经验。 在结构和电子材料领域，空间研究项目相当多样化，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。研究项目本质上是跨学科的，涉及来自不同部门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，显着的努力致力于提高学生的专业技能和自我认同作为一个科学家。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演示。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 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.