Summer Research Experiences in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering for Community College Students

这个在洛约拉玛丽蒙特大学（LMU）的REU网站为24名本科生提供了参加为期10周的暑期课程的机会，每个学生都有机会参与金属合金设计和制造领域有意义的项目的工程研究。 这些学生将从洛杉矶地区的20所社区学院招募，目的是吸引工程专业传统上代表性不足的群体的学生。 这项工作将在一个工作人员的指导下进行，该工作人员在指导本科生进行研究工作方面取得了很大的成功。 这些学生也将直接受到行业和国家实验室人员的监督。每个学生都将接受培训，并负责正在进行的研究项目的表现。 学生们将被期望作为合著者发表他们的工作成果，并为他们的努力赢得大学学分。 被选中的学生将在专业组织的会议上展示他们的工作成果。 该计划将包括实地考察五个顶级工业研究实验室在南加州。 每个参与者将有机会获得广泛的信息和计算资源的LMU的计算机网络。 此外，还将举办关于文字处理、电子表格、技术报告编写、电子邮件和因特网的实践讲习班。 最后，学生们将参加每周一次的研讨会，在那里他们将探索工程研究的道德层面。该计划的目标是提供一个令人兴奋的，富有成效的和有益的研究经验，这将激励参与的学生完成他们的工程本科学业，并最终在研究生阶段从事高级学习和研究。

This REU Site at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) provides an opportunity for 24 undergraduate students to participate in a 10-week summerprogram where each student will have an opportunity to engage in engineering research on meaningful projects in the area of the design and manufacture of metal alloys. The students will be recruited from 20 community colleges in the Los Angeles area with the objective of attracting students from groups traditionally under-represented in the engineering profession. The work will be conducted under the guidance of a staff that has had much success in directing undergraduate students in research work. The students will also be directly monitored by industry and national laboratory personnel. Each of the students will be trained and given responsibility for the performance of an ongoing research project. The students will be expected to publish, as co-authors, the results of their work and to earn university credit for their efforts. Selected students will present the results of their work at conferences of professional organizations. The program will include field trips to five of the top industrial research laboratories in Southern California. Each participant will have access to the extensive information and computational resources of LMU's computer network. In addition, hands-on workshops on word processing, spreadsheets, technical report writing, e-mail and the internet will be conducted. Finally, the students will participate in weekly workshops where they will explore the ethical dimensions of engineering research. The goal of this program is to provide an exciting, productive and rewarding research experience that will inspire the participating students to complete their undergraduate studies in engineering and to engage eventually in advanced study and research at the post graduate level.