IRES in China - Advanced Materials for a Sustainable Development

该奖项是对国际学生研究经验(IRES)04-036计划的响应。该计划的研究主题是开发先进材料，应用于能源生产和储存以及环境修复过程。克拉克森大学的项目将与纽约州康宁公司、康宁研究中国以及清华大学和北京中国科学院物理研究所的研究导师中国合作。从2011年开始，每年三个暑假，六到十二名本科生和三名研究生将前往中国。学生招生将在全国范围内进行，并将努力纳入代表性不足的少数民族。由于能源生产和管理方面的挑战以及对环境的担忧，需要新的能源转换和储存工艺，而这种工艺需要具有定制性能的先进材料。例如，需要提高太阳能系统的效率。该专业的学生将与领先的材料研究人员合作，探索设计和制造具有所需性能的材料的方法。这次国际经验会拓宽学生的视野吗？了解世界，并为在未来的职业生涯中与中国和美国的同事接触做好准备。克拉克森计划以这种模式为基础，将研究和教育交流项目制度化。通过产业和学术合作伙伴扩大它将有助于美国机构更广泛的国际化。

This award is a grant in response to Program Solicitation 04-036, International Research Experiences for Students (IRES). The research topic of this program is the development of advanced materials for applications in energy generation and storage and environmental remediation processes. The Clarkson University program will collaborate with Corning, Inc., in New York State, Corning Research China and host research mentors at Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Physics in Beijing, China. Six to twelve undergraduates and three graduate students will travel to China in each of three summers, starting in 2011. Student recruitment will be national, and an effort will be made to include underrepresented minorities. Because of challenges in energy production and management as well as environmental concerns, new processes of energy conversion and storage are needed, and such processes require advanced materials with tailored properties. Examples include the need to increase the efficiency of solar-energy systems. The students in this program will collaborate with leading materials researchers to explore methods for designing and fabricating materials with needed properties. This international experience will broaden the students? understanding of the world and prepare them to engage with Chinese and American colleagues in the future course of their careers. Clarkson plans to institutionalize research and education exchange programs based on this model. Expanding it through both industrial and academic partners will contribute to broader internationalization of U.S. institutions.