REU Site - Summer Internships in Nanomaterials and Nanomechanics

EEC-06478874 Matthew Gordon该奖项为阿肯色大学费耶特维尔分校(UA)一个为期三年的REU站点提供支持。该项目将在三年内每年吸引9名本科生参加为期10周的暑期项目。REU网站主要关注纳米材料和纳米机械。本科生将接触到刺激和挑战他们的前沿问题。总体目标是：1)让参与者参与纳米工程研究；2)允许本科生自我评估他们对研究生院的兴趣；3)增加未来纳米材料和纳米机械专业人员的数量；4)使阿肯色大学费耶特维尔分校的机械工程系成为并被公认为全国一流的本科生和研究生课程。REU课程包括研讨会和研讨会，让参与者接触纳米工程和专业发展，重点是研究和研究生学习。为了增强参与者的研究体验，将有补充的社会活动，如参观地区研究/工业设施，野餐，以及到当地感兴趣的地区进行集体郊游。这个REU网站的更广泛影响来自研究基础有限的机构、少数族裔机构、代表性不足的少数族裔、妇女和残疾人。此外，该计划与现有的涉及非裔美国人和西班牙裔学生、阿肯色州高中生和优等生的UA计划进行了独特的整合。这些本科生参与了令人兴奋的纳米材料和纳米力学研究，增加了他们考虑研究生学习的可能性，并扩大了国家技术人力的基础。该奖项由激励竞争性研究实验计划(EHR/EPSCoR)共同资助。

EEC-06478874Matthew GordonThe award provides support for a three-year REU Site at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (UA). The program will engage 9 undergraduate students each year for three years in a 10-week summer program. The REU Site focuses on Nanomaterials and Nanomechanics. The undergraduate students will be exposed to cutting-edge problems that will stimulate and challenge them. The overall objectives are: 1) to engage the participants in nanoscale engineering research; 2) to allow the undergraduate students to self-assess their interest in graduate school; 3) to increase the number of future professionals in nanomaterials and nanomechanics; and 4) to enable the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville to become, and be recognized as, a nationally top tier undergraduate and graduate program.The REU program includes seminars and workshops to expose participants to nanoscale engineering as well as professional development, with an emphasis on research and graduate studies. To enhance the participant's research experience there will be complementary social activities, such as, tours of regional research/industrial facilities, cookouts, and group outings to local areas of interest.The Broader Impacts of this REU site arise from the recruitment of undergraduate students from institutions with a limited research base, minority institutions, underrepresented minorities, women and persons with disabilities. In addition, this program uniquely integrates with existing UA programs involving Afro-American and Hispanic students, Arkansas high school students and honors students. The involvement of these undergraduate students in exciting research in nanomaterials and nanomechanics enhances the likelihood that they will consider post-graduate study and broaden the base of the Nation's technical manpower. This award is co-funded by the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EHR/EPSCoR).