REU: Novel Materials and Processing in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Takoudis， EEC-0453432摘要：该REU网站在化学和生物医学工程中的新材料和加工方面每年为伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（UIC）化学，机械和生物工程系的12名本科生提供三年的支持。学生从地区社区学院、少数民族入学率高的大学(如……（芝加哥州立大学和波多黎各大学），全国其他大学，以及UIC为期10周的暑期研究项目。目标是容纳至少80%来自代表性不足群体的学生。这个REU网站的重点是新材料，新型薄膜，设计方法，生物材料和生物工程过程，以及表征技术，揭示了化学和生物医学工程学科中新材料与加工过程-结构-功能之间的相互关系。具体项目包括生物医学应用的产品和工艺工程、纳米结构的原子尺度研究、纳米通道中流体行为的实验研究、植入式医疗设备的生物表面修饰、控制视网膜神经元生长和神经突延伸的微图案基质，以及新型催化材料。该REU计划的目标是引导学生在新材料及其加工方面进行独立研究，发展和提高学生的创造力和原创性，培养研究生课程的优秀候选人，展示进行原创性研究的兴奋，并促进未来工程工作场所所需的跨学科技能的发展。该项目预计将对生物医学和化学工程的新材料和加工以及人力资源的发展产生广泛的影响。REU网站强调(i)口头交流和技术写作技能，通过4个两周一次的简短研究进展报告，以及最终的口头报告和书面报告，（ii）通过教程和研讨会的实验设计和安全工程技能，（iii）通过研讨会，研讨会和三个小时的系列教程的工程伦理，以及（iv）介绍新材料和加工的几个领域。REU网站的社交项目包括每周小组会议后的非结构化社交聚会，参观区域研究/工业设施（即BP，摩托罗拉，阿贡国家实验室，雅培实验室，美国液化空气公司，费米实验室和UOP），野餐和野炊，集体郊游小熊队和白袜队的棒球比赛，以及密歇根湖乘船游览。该站点由国防部与NSF REU项目合作提供支持。

Abstract for Takoudis, EEC-0453432:This REU site in Novel Materials and Processing in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering supports a total of twelve undergraduate students annually for three years in the Departments of Chemical, Mechanical and Bio-Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Students are recruited from regional community colleges, universities with high minority enrollments (e.g.., Chicago State and U. of Puerto Rico), other universities across the nation, and UIC for 10-week summer research projects. The target is to accommodate at least 80% of the students from underrepresented groups.The foci of this REU site are new materials, novel thin films, design methodologies, biomaterials and bioengineering processes, and characterization techniques that reveal the process-structure-functionality interrelationships of novel materials with their processing in the chemical and biomedical engineering disciplines. Specific projects include product and process engineering for biomedical applications, atomic-scale investigations of nanostructures, experimental investigation of fluid behavior in nanochannels, biological surface modification for implantable medical devices, micropatterned substrates for controlling growth and neurite extension of retinal neurons, and novel catalytic materials. The objectives of this REU program are to introduce students to independent research in novel materials and their processing, to develop and enhance the students' creativity and originality, to develop outstanding candidates for graduate programs, to demonstrate the excitement of doing original research, and to promote the development of interdisciplinary skills needed in the engineering workplace of the future.This project is anticipated to have a broad impact on novel materials and processing in biomedical and chemical engineering as well as on the development of human resources. The REU site places emphasis on (i) oral communication and technical writing skills through 4 bi-weekly brief research progress reports as well as a final oral presentation and written report, (ii) skills in experimental design and safety engineering through tutorials and seminars, (iii) engineering ethics through a workshop, seminar, and a three-hour tutorial series, and (iv) introduction to several areas of novel materials and processing. The social program of the REU site includes unstructured social gatherings after the weekly group meetings, tours of regional research/industrial facilities (i.e., BP,Motorola, Argonne National Lab, Abbott Labs, American Air Liquide, Fermi Lab, and UOP), picnics and cookouts, group outings to Cubs and White Sox baseball games, and a Lake Michigan ship tour.This site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.