CAREER: Optimal Design of Smart Materials

这个职业奖是为了促进工程研究和教育。 本研究旨在研究多晶金属材料在室温附近的物理机制的微观特征及其与宏观循环力学行为的关系。 目标是将实际应力分析与材料科学的基本发现联系起来。 教育计划包括创新教学和发展本科和研究生课程。 将建立一个系统的试点研究计划，让本科生参与研究项目，以便尽早接触实际问题。 自主和开放式的实验室实验将被开发，以鼓励学生更具创造性。

This CAREER award is made to advance both research and education inengineering. The research is to study the microscopic features of physicalmechanisms and their relations with macroscopic cyclic mechanical behavior inpolycrystalline metallic materials near room temperature. The goal is tobridge practical stress analysis with fundamental findings in materialscience. The education plan consists of innovative teaching and developingundergraduate and graduate courses. A systematic pilot research program willbe created to involve undergraduate students in research projects to provideearly exposure to practical problems. Self-directed and open-ended laboratoryexperiments will be developed to encourage the students to be more creative.