RUI: San Jose State/IBM Almaden Center Integrated Research and Education Program

该项目由分析和表面化学项目和多学科活动办公室支持，结合了IBM阿尔马登研究中心（IBM/ARC）和圣何塞州立大学（SJSU）的智力和物理资源，这是一个主要的本科机构。Joseph Pesek教授和Maureen Scharberg教授领导SJSU的工作，Charles Wade博士协调IBM/ARC的工作。这两个机构将共同为本科生和高中教师/小型学院教师提供分析化学、界面科学和材料科学等许多领域的研究项目。这个学术-工业研究和教育计划建立在两个以前的NSF资助，CHE-9300131和CHE-9625628。在这个项目中，提供全年和暑期课程：本科生全年有6个职位，暑期有20个为期10周的职位。有四个面向高中教师的暑期职位和两个面向小型大学教师的暑期职位。导师来自上海州立大学的22名化学教师和IBM/ARC的240名科学家。学生在聚合物化学、材料表征、光刻、半导体封装、磁性、计算化学和表面化学等领域工作。每个参与者都将在上海州立大学和IBM/ARC的实验室工作，让他们对学术和工业研究的机会和程序有一个广泛的了解。项目的评估和评价正在发展。已经进行了退出调查，现在正在制定长期跟踪协议。

This Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) project, supported in the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities, combines the demonstrated intellectual and physical resources at the IBM Almaden Research Center (IBM/ARC) and San Jose State University (SJSU), a primarily undergraduate institution. Professors Joseph Pesek and Maureen Scharberg head the SJSU effort and Dr. Charles Wade coordinates the IBM/ARC effort. Together, these two institutions will offer undergraduate students and high school teachers/small college faculty research projects in many areas of analytical chemistry, interfacial science, and materials science. This academic-industrial research and education program builds on two previous NSF grants, CHE-9300131 and CHE-9625628. . In this project, both year-round and summer programs are offered: For undergraduates, there are six positions year-round and twenty ten-week summer appointments. There are four summer positions for high school teachers and two summer positions for visiting small college faculty. Mentors come from the 22 chemistry faculty at SJSU and among the 240 scientists at IBM/ARC. Students work in the areas of polymer chemistry, materials characterization, lithography, semiconductor packaging, magnetism, computational chemistry, and surface chemistry. Each of the participants will spend time working in laboratories at both SJSU and IBM/ARC, giving them a broad understanding of both academic and industrial research opportunities and procedures. The assessment and evaluation of the project is evolving. Exit surveys have already been performed, and now long term tracking protocols are being developed.