REU Site: Earth, Wind, and Fire: Sustainable Energy for the 21st Century

提案：0851799 PI姓名：基思l.霍恩这三年REU网站计划在堪萨斯州立大学（KSU）将提供本科生的研究经验，围绕可持续能源的主题为重点。该计划的具体学习目标包括：1）发展和应用数学，科学，工程和研究方法领域的知识和技能; 2）发展对可持续发展的理解，作为一个应用多学科领域，包括经济，科学，技术和社会，政治和社会面临的伦理问题;（3）通过提高自主学习和原创性研究的能力，培养终身学习的必要性和能力。 为了提高动手实验室的研究经验，各种额外的活动已被纳入。 其中包括：1）关于可持续发展和专业发展的每周研讨会; 2）每周棕色袋午餐和晚上的社交活动，各种实地考察独特的网站，如风力发电场和核反应堆在KSU;和3）学生将在一个研究研讨会，这将使他们能够在一个友好和支持的环境中介绍他们的工作口头报告。 研讨会将包括实验室安全，实验室研究笔记本，多学科团队合作，撰写科学论文，专利和专利申请，技术演示，海报演示，研究生教育和职业道路等主题。 作为专业发展研讨会的一部分，学生将被要求保持一个日志，他们反映他们的REU经验。 在夏季结束时，参与者将被要求审查他们的期刊条目，并将材料合成一篇论文，描述他们的观点，态度和对可持续性，科学和工程以及研究的理解如何受到他们参与REU计划的影响。 为了提高多样性，首席研究员将从哈斯克尔印第安民族大学，其他美洲原住民大学和历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）招募本科生。REU学生在他们的教师导师的指导下进行的研究将推进可持续能源的知识状态。

Proposal: 0851799PI Name: Keith l. HohnThis three year REU site program at Kansas State University (KSU) will provide undergraduate students research experiences focused around the theme of sustainable energy. Specific learning objectives of this program include: 1) to develop and apply knowledge and skills in the areas of mathematics, science, engineering, and research methods; 2) to develop an understanding of sustainability as an applied multidisciplinary field encompassing economics, science, technology, and the social, political, and ethical issues facing society; and 3) to develop a recognition of the need for and ability to engage in life-long learning by increasing the capacity for self-directed learning and original investigation. In order to enhance the hands-on laboratory research experience, a variety of additional activities have been incorporated. These include the following: 1) weekly seminars on sustainability and professional development; 2) weekly brown bag lunches and evening social activities, various field trips to unique sites such as a wind farm and the nuclear reactor at KSU; and 3) students will give oral presentations at a research symposium which will allow them to present their work in a friendly and supportive environment. Seminars will include topics such as laboratory safety, laboratory research notebooks, multidisciplinary teamwork, writing a scientific paper, patents and patent applications, technical presentations, poster presentations, graduate education and career paths. As part of the professional development seminars, students will be asked to maintain a journal where they reflect on their REU experience. At the end of the summer, the participants will be asked to review their journal entries, and synthesize the materials into a paper describing how their perspectives, attitudes, and understanding of sustainability, science and engineering, and research have been impacted by their participation in the REU program. In an effort to enhance diversity, the Principal Investigator will recruit undergraduate students from the Haskell Indian Nations University, other Native American universities, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The research conducted by the REU students under the guidance of their faculty mentors will advance the state of knowledge in sustainable energy.