Student Poster Symposium at ASME Society-Wide Micro and Nano Technology Forum, Denver, Colorado, November 11, 2011 - November 17, 2011

Pi：Tony Jun Huang，宾夕法尼亚州立大学建议编号：CBET 1160568建议的努力为2011年ASME全社会微和纳米技术论坛寻求NSF资金，该论坛将于2011年在丹佛举行的ASME IMEC2011期间举行。拟议的论坛将把ASME成员和其他人聚集在一起，重点关注微和纳米技术领域的新发展。在过去三年中，该论坛受到了亚欧国际教育管理学院与会者，特别是学生的热烈欢迎；每年，论坛上都有150多份海报介绍和约300名与会者。拟议的国家科学基金会奖将用于进一步培养学生的发展，通过向他们提供部分旅行津贴，包括与会议注册费和住宿有关的费用，鼓励在微/纳米工程一般领域工作的一批优秀学生参加。旅行奖项将由微纳论坛组委会的专家小组决定，并将基于提交的海报摘要的技术质量和他们的研究顾问的声明。过去，参加ASME微纳论坛的学生非常重视论坛给予他们的机会，展示他们的研究成果，与他们的同行互动，并与他们直接环境之外的人见面。此外，论坛还提供机会，增加学生对微纳技术前沿前沿研究的接触，并提高学生在使他们在研究环境中具有竞争力的工具方面的能力，即团队合作和项目管理、口头和书面技术沟通技能、道德和整体研究敏锐性。此外，学生还将有机会参加与他们目前的研究相关的以及其他机械工程领域的技术报告(预计将有2000多份报告和海报在2011年的IMCES会议上展示)。这将使他们接触到可能与他们目前的项目相关的解决方案和挑战，同时提供机会，发现令人兴奋的新的研究活动，以追求未来。在这方面，论坛的使命与国家科学基金会(特别是工程局)吸引年轻研究人才并指导他们从事科学和工程事业的使命非常契合。让参与的学生直接接触他们研究领域的领导者(技术组委会成员、评委等)将为他们提供一个独特的机会来传播他们最新的研究成果，并获得关于博士后职位和教师职位的第一手信息。ASME传统上举办了几次大挑战会议，来自行业或政府的演讲者确定了国家在各个领域面临的关键技术挑战。此外，ASME杰出研究人员的授课、伦理学和下一代工程教育课程的特别会议，以及对当地工业和国家实验室的技术参观，都是学生学习和成长的其他机会。像过去一样，来自NSF、国防部机构、国家实验室和行业的人员预计将在会议上有强大的存在。这些小组的成员将参与提供专业发展研讨会、工作坊、信息会议和招聘活动，并将为学生的发展提供更多新的途径。在挑选学生参加旅行奖项时，将尽一切努力包括和鼓励来自少数族裔和传统上代表性较低的学生群体的学生参与工程学。

PI: Tony Jun Huang, Pennsylvania State UniversityProposal Number: CBET 1160568The proposed effort seeks NSF funding for student participation grants for the 2011 ASME Society-Wide Micro and Nano Technology Forum to be held during the ASME IMECE 2011 in Denver, Co. The proposed Forum will bring together ASME members and others, with a focus on new developments in the field of micro and nanotechnology. For the past three years the forum has been enthusiastically embraced by ASME IMECE attendees, in particular students; each year, there have been more than 150 poster presentations and about 300 attendees at the forum. The proposed NSF awards will be used to further nurture student development by encouraging participation from a select group of meritorious students working in the general area of micro-/nanoscale engineering by providing them partial travel grants including expenses related to conference registration fees and lodging. The travel awards will be decided by a panel of experts from the Micro and Nano Forum organizing committee, and will be based on the technical quality of the poster abstracts submitted and statement from their research advisors. In the past, the participating students at the ASME Micro and Nano Forum have greatly valued the opportunity given to them by the Forum to showcase their research, interact with their peers, and meet people outside of their immediate environment. Besides this, the Forum also provides opportunities to increase student exposure to cutting-edge research in the frontiers of micro and nano technologies, and increase student abilities with respect to tools that will make them competitive in a research environment, namely, team work and project management, oral and written technical communication skills, ethics, and overall research acumen. In addition, the students will get an opportunity to attend technical presentations (over 2000 presentations and posters are anticipated to be presented at IMECE 2011) relevant to their current research, and also in other mechanical engineering fields. This will expose them to solutions and challenges that may be relevant to their current projects, while at the same time provide opportunities to discover exciting new research activities to pursue in future. In this regards, the mission of the forum fits well with the mission of NSF (in particular the Engineering Directorate) in attracting young research talents and mentoring them for a career in science and engineering. Direct exposure of the participating students to leaders in their research fields (technical organizing committee members, judges, etc.) will provide them with a unique opportunity to disseminate their most recent research, and receive first-hand information on available opportunities for postdoctoral positions, as well as faculty positions. ASME traditionally hosts several Grand Challenge sessions where speakers from industry or government identify critical technical challenges facing the nation in various fields. In addition, ASME award lectures by prominent researchers, special sessions on ethics and the next-generation engineering education curriculum, and technical tours to local industry and national laboratories represent other opportunities for student learning and growth. Like in the past, personnel from NSF, DoD agencies, national laboratories, and industry are expected to have a strong presence at the conference. Members from these groups will be involved in providing professional development seminars, workshops, information sessions and recruitment activities, and will provide further new avenues for student development as well. While selecting students for the travel awards, every effort will be made to include and encourage student participation from both minority and traditionally underrepresented student groups in engineering.