REU Site in Physics at Rensselaer

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该奖项继续支持伦斯勒理工学院物理系的REU网站。这个网站的目的是积极参与8个本科生每年夏天为未来四年在一个为期10周的计划。 REU学生将与经验丰富的教师导师一起工作，并参与各种物理子领域的前沿物理研究，如凝聚态物质，光学物理，太赫兹科学，粒子物理和天体物理。该计划的特点是精心设计的动手项目，让学生有机会做出发现，可以导致出版物。学生将使用现有的设施进行实验，建立简单的仪器和接口，数据采集程序，或使用计算机建模和进行数据分析。REU的参与者将有足够的机会在他们之间以及与教师导师，博士后学者和研究生每天进行互动和网络。 此外，还有每周的小组活动，如技术研讨会和实地考察工业研究中心和其他研究实验室，道德和领导技能的发展演习。 学生通过展示他们的研究成果接受口头和书面技术沟通技能的培训和实践。 REU计划帮助准备和培训本科生，包括那些来自代表性不足的群体在科学相关领域的职业生涯。 该项目由国家科学基金会数学和物理科学理事会材料研究部资助。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award continues support for the REU site at the Physics Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. This Site aims to actively involve 8 undergraduates each summer for next four years in a 10-week program. REU students will work with experienced faculty mentors and participate in ongoing frontier physics research in various physics subfields, such as Condensed Matter, Optical Physics, Terahertz Science, Particle Physics, and Astrophysics. The program features hands-on projects carefully designed to give students the opportunity to make discoveries that can result in publications. Students will conduct experiments using existing facilities, build simple instruments and interfaces, programs for data acquisition, or use computer modeling and perform data analysis. The REU participants will have ample opportunities to interact and network among themselves as well as with faculty mentors, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students on a daily basis. In addition, there are weekly group activities such as technical seminars and field trips to Industrial Research Center and other research laboratories, exercises on ethics and development of leadership skills. Students receive training and practice of oral and written technical communication skills by presenting their research results. The REU program helps prepare and train undergraduate students including those from underrepresented groups for careers in science related areas. This project is funded by the Division of Materials Research in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of National Science Foundation.