SMASIS Student Activities Grant

这项工作为美国机械工程师协会(ASME)智能材料、自适应结构和智能系统(SMASIS)会议的学生出席、学生网络和学生指导活动提供支持。根据定义，自适应结构和材料系统是对不断变化的环境具有感知和反应能力的智能、灵活的系统。由于大学、政府和行业各部门之间的跨学科协同努力，该领域迅速成熟。SMASIS会议的目的是聚集来自工程和科学学科(机械、航空航天、电气、材料和土木工程、生物、物理化学等)的世界专家，积极讨论智能材料的最新突破、自适应结构应用的前沿以及新设备技术和基础工程研究探索的最新进展。NSF的支持将促进学生参与会议，开展促进技术和智力交流的活动，包括学生硬件设计比赛和学生论文比赛，以及为学生发展同行和导师网络的活动，其中包括学生辅导午餐会和学生郊游。推广计划旨在吸引那些原本可能不熟悉当地高中、HBCU和/或社区大学的智能材料或自适应结构的学生。具体目标是：1)促进对智能材料和自适应系统研究前景感到兴奋的学生之间的技术和智力交流；2)向参与者灌输一种由对研究和这一技术领域具有共同热情的学生同龄人组成的技术社区的意识，以及在他们在该领域发展自己的职业道路时可能联系的导师的意识；3)增加未被充分代表的学生对这一专业发展活动的参与；以及4)提高参与者对该领域内正在研究的广泛想法和主题的认识。

This effort provides support for student attendance, student networking and student mentoring activities for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS). Adaptive structures and materials systems by definition are intelligent, flexible systems that have sentience and responsiveness to ever changing environments. The field has rapidly matured due to synergistic interdisciplinary efforts across sectors of universities, government and industry. The purpose of the SMASIS conference is to assemble world experts across engineering and scientific disciplines (mechanical, aerospace, electrical, materials, and civil engineering, biology, physics chemistry, etc) to actively discuss the latest breakthroughs in smart materials, the cutting edge in adaptive structure applications and the recent advances in both new device technologies and basic engineering research exploration. Support from the NSF will promote student participation at the conference to activities that foster technical and intellectual exchange include a student hardware design competition and a student paper competition as well as activities to develop a network of peers and mentors for students that include a student mentoring luncheon and a student outing.The outreach program is designed to engage students who might not otherwise be familiar with smart materials or adaptive structures from local high schools, HBCU's and/or community colleges. The specific goals are to 1) foster technical and intellectual exchange among students who are excited about prospects for research on smart materials and adaptive systems, 2) instill in its participants the sense of a technical community of student peers with a common enthusiasm for research and this technical field and of possible mentors for contact as they develop their own career paths in this field, 3) increase participation of underrepresented students in this professional development activity, and 4) increase participant awareness of the broad range of ideas and topics being studied within this field.