REU Site: Development of Micro-Turbomachinery

该奖项授予德克萨斯州工程实验站的REU站点，将为10名本科生提供为期三年的为期10周的微型涡轮机械领域的研究经验。该计划的目标是在一个刺激和友好的环境中为学生提供独特的研究经验，使学生对工程研究产生热情，并将其作为职业选择。该项目是德克萨斯农工大学一个大型多学科研究项目的一部分，该项目旨在开发微型涡轮机，以增强国防、国土安全、交通和航空航天应用。该计划不仅提供了刺激的研究机会，而且还提供了一系列信息丰富的研讨会，实地考察和社会活动，以补充研究活动，培养不同学生群体之间的凝聚力。在课程结束时，学生将写一份研究报告，并向涡轮机械协会的行业成员展示他们的研究成果。招聘工作将针对妇女、代表性不足的少数民族和残疾人。这些本科生参与令人兴奋的研究，增加了他们考虑研究生学习的可能性，并扩大了我们的技术人力基础。此外，微型涡轮机的成功开发有可能在国土安全、交通运输、航空航天、生物医学、先进制造和许多其他商业应用中开辟无限的应用机会。

EEC-0552885 Nguyen P. HungThis award for an REU Site at the Texas Engineering Experiment Station will provide research experiences in the area of microturbo machinery for 10 undergraduate students each year for three-years in a 10-week summer program. The objective of the program is to provide students with unique research experiences in a stimulating and friendly environment so that students will develop a passion for engineering research and will pursue it as a career choice. This program is part of a larger scale multidisciplinary research project at Texas A&M University to develop micro turbines to enhance defense, homeland security, transportation, and aerospace applications. The program provides not only stimulating research opportunities, but it also offers a series of informative seminars, field trips and social events to complement the research activities and foster cohesiveness among the diverse group of students. At the end of the program, students will write a research report and present their research work to industry members of the Turbomachinery Consortium. Recruitment efforts will be targeted towards women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities. The involvement of these undergraduate students in exciting research enhances the likelihood that they will consider post-graduate study and broaden the base of our technical manpower. Also, successful development of microturbines has the potential to open endless application opportunities in homeland security, transportation, aerospace, biomedical, advance manufacturing, and many other commercial applications.