2024 CASMART Student Design Challenge at the 2024 Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies (SMST) Conference; Cascais, Portugal; 6-10 May 2024

该奖项为在美国大学学习的学生提供旅费，以参加2024年形状记忆合金研究与技术促进联盟(CASMART)学生设计挑战赛。其目的是扩大本科生和研究生对CASMART竞赛的参与，该竞赛将在2024年在葡萄牙卡斯凯斯举行的SMST(形状记忆和超弹性技术)会议和博览会上举行。该项目不仅支持学生的智力努力和他们在CASMART比赛中的陈述，而且通过扩大参与来影响该领域。学生们将有机会与来自世界各地的政府、行业和学术界的领导人互动。此外，CASMART比赛本身也为社区同行和专家的合作和反馈创造了机会。从2015年开始，CASMART学生设计大赛已经举办了五届。第六届CASMART大赛在2024年SMST大会上举办，参赛团队在广泛的应用领域开发和使用形状记忆合金和技术，从用于高效固态制冷和冷却的弹性热能，到电池防火设备。学生团队正在进行前沿研究，并将把这些令人兴奋的成果带到比赛中，他们将在比赛中与与会者分享他们的工作。在这个项目上的努力将包括为学生提供会前辅导机会。该项目还将直接扩大对形状记忆合金社区的领先国际会议的参与。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 award provides travel funding for students studying at US universities to participate in the 2024 Consortium for the Advancement of Shape Memory Alloy Research and Technology (CASMART) Student Design Challenge. The objective is to broaden undergraduate and graduate student participation for the CASMART competition, which will be held at the 2024 SMST (Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies) Conference and Exposition in Cascais, Portugal. This project supports not only the intellectual efforts of the students and their presentations for the CASMART competition, but also impacts the field by broadening participation. Students will have the opportunity to interact with leaders from government, industry, and academia from around the world. Furthermore, the CASMART competition itself creates opportunities for collaboration and feedback from peers and experts in the community. The CASMART student design competition has been held five times, starting in 2015. The sixth CASMART competition is hosted at the 2024 SMST Conference and features teams developing and using shape memory alloys and technologies in a wide range of application areas, from elastocalorics for efficient solid-state refrigeration and cooling, to battery fire-prevention devices. The student teams are conducting cutting-edge research and will bring these exciting results to the competition, where they will share their work with the conference attendees. Efforts on this project will include pre-conference coaching opportunities for students. This project will also directly broaden participation at a leading international conference for the shape memory alloy community.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.