National Nanofabrication Users Network (NNUN) REU Program

9987915 Tiwari国家纳米纤维网用户网络（NNUN）是一个全国性的用户研究设施合作伙伴关系，为来自许多学科和组织的研究人员提供无与伦比的机会。 这些设施用于制造基于先进纳米和微米制造技术的结构。 NNUN由美国国家科学基金会于1994年发起，是连接昂贵设施以获得协同作用并最大限度地减少重复的有用模型。 每年大约有1000名活跃用户利用NNUN的五个设施之一。 NNUN于1997年建立了一个网络范围的REU网站，每年夏天有42名学生参加，为期10周，分布在5个校区：康奈尔大学、霍华德大学、宾夕法尼亚州立大学、斯坦福大学和加州大学伯克利分校。 该REU计划的目的是利用NNUN广泛的相互关联的基础设施，提供比任何一个网站都更广泛和更丰富的REU体验。 学生可以使用最先进的仪器和纳米纤维的专业知识。 来自所有5个校区的大量教师可以为学生提供建议。 REU计划是基于个人项目的，每个学生单独负责一个研究项目。 REU convocation是在每年夏季结束时在5个校区之一举行;所有42名学生满足在会议设置介绍他们的结果。 该REU的其他功能包括多站点合作机会，通过流媒体视频提供培训，并通过扩大合作项目，涉及在多个站点从事类似或相关项目的学生。

9987915TiwariThe National Nanofabrication Users Network (NNUN) is a national partnership of user research facilities providing unparalled opportunities for researchers from many disciplines and organizations. The facilities are used to fabricate structures based on advanced nano- and micro-fabrication technology. Initiated by NSF in 1994 NNUN serves as a useful model for linking expensive facilities to gain synergy and minimize duplication. Approximately 1000 active users take advantage of one of the five NNUN facilities each year. NNUN established a network-wide REU site in 1997, involving 42 students per summer for 10 weeks at 5 campuses: Cornell, Howard University, Penn State, Stanford, and University of California-Berkeley. The intent of this REU program is to capitalize on the extensive interrelated infrastructure of NNUN to provide a much broader and richer REU experience than any one site could provide. Students have access to state-of-the-art instrumentation and expertise in nanofabrication. A large pool of faculty, collectively from all 5 campuses, is available to advise the students. The REU program is individual project-based, with each student individually responsible for a research project. An REU convocationis held at the end of each summer at one of the 5 campuses; all 42 students meet to present their results in a conference setting. Other features of this REU include multi-site collaborative opportunities by delivery of training through streaming video and by expanded cooperative projects involving students at multiple sites working on similar or related projects.