NSF-Experimental Systemic Initiative Supplemental Proposal

93-53661 密西西比NSF-EPSCoR项目已经完成了高级开发计划的第一年。 先进的计划，与个别校园组件在化学/材料科学的广泛领域的集群相互作用的设计，是成功地解决了障碍，在国家的研究通过跨机构线的资源相结合。 教师和学生之间的合作导致了更多的教师和行业交流，增加了EPSCoR调查人员之间的研究活动，并加强了容纳EPSCoR组件的部门的本科生和研究生教学。 这个实验系统倡议提出，以加强教师的专业发展，学生在本科和研究生水平的发展，教育，知识转移和与行业的互动。 它将提供资金，使教师和学生有机会通过旅行和通过与领先科学家的研讨会和讲习班与他们的研究领域的专家互动。 缺乏这种活动的机会已被确定为该州研究的障碍之一。 本提案涉及密西西比高级开发EPSCoR计划的三个目标： (a)通过建立机构间联系，培养足够数量的科学家; (b)通过与其他正在进行的项目合作， 并通过激励该州的人力资源库， 参与研究和教育过程;以及 (c)通过开发更强大的产品，向适当的用户群体进行技术转让 与其他研究团体的研究联系，并建立机制， 商业联系和支持以大学为基础的研究。 该密西西比EPSCoR倡议的目的是为学生和教师的具体需求的个别组件内的程序。 这些活动的目标教师谁将前往适当的行业或参加由受邀科学家和顾问进行的校园研讨会。 他们还针对参与EPSCoR研究的学生以及该州和地区其他大学的学生。 七项优化设计归纳如下： - 教师与参与相关研究的公司的互动， 参加聚合物粘合和复合材料技术会议 材料; - 教师与从事复合材料的公司和实验室的互动 制造和短期课程的应力分析; - 教师与企业和实验室的互动，以进行知识交流 非破坏性评估（NDE），在开发数值模型模拟 无损检测过程和超声波信号分析;使用外部顾问 具有超声声学信号处理的专业知识; - 为州和区域调查人员举办了为期三天的专题讨论会和讲习班， 学生与领先的科学家在国家的最先进的解决方案，固态和微型， 核磁共振成像实验; - 教职员工和学生参加专业会议的差旅费; 计算化学与公认的扬声器; - 访问学生的本科研究机会;研究援助 新的EPSCoR教师与表面的物理化学能力; - 一系列的十个研讨会，邀请科学家解决光谱 化学和生物系统中瞬时物种的询问 和研究生。

93-53661 Powe NSF-Experimental Systemic Initiative Supplemental Proposal The Mississippi NSF-EPSCoR Project has completed its first year of the Advanced Development Program. The advanced program, designed with individual campus components interacting as clusters in the broad areas of chemistry/materials science, is successfully addressing barriers to research in the state by combining resources across institutional lines. Collaboration among faculty and students has resulted in more faculty and industry exchanges, has increased research activity among the EPSCoR investigators, and has strengthened undergraduate and graduate instruction in the departments housing the EPSCoR components. This Experimental Systematic Initiative proposes to enhance the professional development of faculty, student development at the undergraduate and graduate levels, education, and knowledge transfer and interaction with industry. It will provide funding to allow faculty and students the opportunity to interact with experts in their areas of research through travel and through seminars and workshops with leading scientists. The lack of opportunity for such activity has been identified as one of the barriers to research in the state. This proposal addresses three of the objectives of the Mississippi Advanced Development EPSCoR Program: (a) to create a critical mass of scientists by implementing inter-institutional links; (b) to strengthen the scientific community by working with other ongoing programs and by stimulating the human resource pool in the state to become actively involved in the research and education process; and (c) to establish technology transfer to appropriate user groups by developing stronger research links with other research communities and by creating mechanisms for commercial linkages and support of university-based research. The Mississippi EPSCoR initiative is designed to provide for the specific needs of the students and faculty of individual components within the program. These activities target faculty who will either travel to appropriate industries or participate in campus seminars conducted by invited scientists and consultants. They also target students involved in the EPSCoR research as well as students at other universities in the state and region. The seven enhancement designs are summarized as follows: - Faculty interaction with corporations involved in related research in and involvement in technical meetings on polymeric adhesion and composite materials; - Faculty interaction with corporations and laboratories dealing in composite fabrication and in short courses in stress analysis; - Faculty interaction with corporations and laboratories for knowledge exchange in non-destructive evaluation (NDE), in development of numerical models simulating NDE processes, and in analysis of ultrasonic signals; use of external consultants with expertise in ultrasonic acoustic signal processing; - A three-day symposium and workshop for state and regional investigators and students with leading scientists in state-of-the-art solution, solid state and micro- imaging nuclear magnetic resonance experiments; - Faculty and student travel for professional conferences; planned conference on computational chemistry with recognized speakers; - Undergraduate research opportunities for visiting students; research assistance for new EPSCoR faculty with competence in physical chemistry of surfaces; - A series of ten seminars with invited scientists addressing spectroscopic interrogation of transient species in chemical and biological systems for faculty and graduate students.