REU site: Introduction to Multiscale Engineering

华盛顿州立大学（WSU）为期三年的REU网站奖题为“多尺度工程介绍”，致力于使用现代处理，建模和分析技术来理解从原子尺度到宏观尺度的各种长度尺度上的结构和性质之间的关系。每年夏天，10名本科生将参加为期10周的个人项目。华盛顿州立大学工程与建筑学院的9名教职员工将致力于指导和研究监督。每个项目将向学生介绍多尺度工程的基本概念，因此，每个项目将包括处理至少两个不同长度尺度的组件（实验和/或分析和数值）。学生将与包括教师、博士后和研究生在内的团队合作，研究项目包括材料行为的多尺度模型、颗粒材料的离散粒子模拟、碳纳米管的集体行为、动态载荷下金属板的力学行为、微流体燃料电池的建模和模拟、热声发电机、用于聚变能机器燃料的氢双螺杆挤出机的缩放。热界面材料的制造与表征，共振热机的尺度问题，复合层压板的多尺度效应。这个REU网站计划将为不同群体的学生提供研究经验，包括种族，性别，学术和经济背景。招聘工作将侧重于来自传统上在工程和科学领域代表性不足的人口群体的学生，来自研究有限的学校的学生，以及通常没有获得研究机会的一年级和二年级本科生。这个REU网站的目标是将代表性不足的群体的参与度从目前的45%提高到50%以上。特别是，该计划将通过辅导计划增加西班牙裔学生的参与。通过积极招收已经完成一、二年级的学生，该项目旨在吸引那些可能在本科学习后换专业的学生。这一策略旨在吸引和留住来自工程和科学多个学科的学生从事多尺度科学和工程的职业。

This three year REU Site award at Washington State University (WSU) entitled "Introduction to Multiscale Engineering, is dedicated to using modern processing, modeling and analysis techniques to understand the relationships between the structure and properties at various length scales spanning the spectrum from the atomic scale to the macroscopic scale. Ten undergraduate students will participate each summer in individual projects over the course of 10 weeks. A group of 9 faculty members in the College of Engineering and Architecture at WSU will be dedicated to mentoring and research supervision. Each project will introduce the student to basic concepts in multiscale engineering and, thus, each project will include components (experimental and/or analytical and numerical) that deal with at least two different length scales. Students will work with a team including faculty, post docs and graduate students on projects such as multiscale models of materials behavior, discrete particle simulation of granular materials, collective behavior of carbon nanotubes, mechanical behavior of sheet metals under dynamic loading, modeling and simulation of microfluidic fuel cells, thermoacoustic electricity generators, scaling of hydrogenic twin-screw extruders for the fueling of fusion energy machines, fabrication and characterization of thermal interface materials, scaling issues in resonant heat engines, and multiscale effects in composite laminates.This REU Site program will provide a research experience for a diverse group of students, ranging from ethnicity, gender, academic, and economic backgrounds. Recruitment efforts will focus on students from demographic groups traditionally underrepresented in engineering and science, students from schools that have limited research, and students who are 1st and 2nd year undergraduates who are often not given research opportunities. The goal for this REU site is to increase participation by underrepresented groups from the current 45% to over 50%. In particular, the program will increase participation by Hispanic students through mentoring programs. By actively recruiting students who have finished their first and second years, the program aims to attract students to engineering who otherwise might have changed majors later in their undergraduate studies. This strategy is designed to attract and retain students from many disciplines of engineering and science to careers in multiscale science and engineering.