Collaborative Research: Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education

非技术性总结该奖项支持将在密歇根大学和加州大学伯克利分校举办的综合计算材料教育暑期学校。计算机的使用在新材料的发现和产品的设计中发挥着越来越重要的作用，甚至连制造它们的材料都是如此。综合计算材料教育暑期学校将培训和帮助打算将计算材料科学工具纳入材料科学和工程教育的研究生、博士后研究员和教授。完成该项目的参与者是计算材料科学和工程的大使--他们回到自己的大学，并实施暑期学校提供的模块和方法。以前的暑期班通过参与者已经接触到了500多名本科生。它还为参与者提供了更深入地学习计算技术的第一步。这将反过来刺激计算材料科学的进步，从而在更广泛的材料科学和工程领域产生连锁反应。研究生参与者都接受了研究和教学方面的培训，这为他们提供了一个在高等教育中为未来的职业道路做准备的机会。技术总结该奖项支持将在密歇根大学和加州大学伯克利分校举办的综合计算材料教育暑期学校。在过去的十年里，计算方法改变了许多科学和工程学科。虽然材料物理的复杂性和多尺度性质使建模具有挑战性，但计算材料科学的现代方法也开始对新材料的设计和开发产生广泛的影响。为了应对社区确定的需求和挑战，该团队建立了“综合计算材料教育暑期学校”，这是一个为期两周的计划，包括一门关于计算材料科学和工程的强化课程，并重点讨论可用于现有材料科学和工程核心课程的教育模块。具体地说，该团队开发了可以整合到现有本科水平核心课程中的模块，这些课程涉及材料热力学、动力学、电子特性和力学。利用这些模块，暑期学校的目标是“教育教育工作者”。继2011年、2012年和2014年的活动之后，2015年、2016年和2017年将继续提供暑期学校。综合计算材料教育暑期学校帮助大学和学院将计算材料科学工具纳入其核心课程的速度迅速提高，从而对大量年轻的材料科学家产生了影响。除了教育部分，暑期学校还将包括计算材料研究前沿的高级主题，这为传播最先进的研究提供了一个论坛。此外，学员还将了解可纳入他们的研究的计算工具，从而培训未来的劳动力，使其能够利用越来越多的计算工具进行材料设计和开发。暑期学校还将提供一个案例研究，说明如何将本科教育转变为在科学、技术、工程和数学学科中采用技术。

NONTECHNICAL SUMMARYThis award supports the Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education which will be held at the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley. The use of computers plays an increasingly important role in the discovery of new materials and the design of products down to the materials from which they are made. The Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education will train and assist graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professors who intend to incorporate computational materials science tools into materials science and engineering education. The participants who complete the program are ambassadors of computational materials science and engineering - they return to their home universities and implement the modules and approaches presented in the Summer School. Previous offerings of the Summer School have reached over 500 undergraduate students through its participants. It also provides the participants the first step towards more in-depth learning of the computational techniques. This will in turn stimulate the advancement of computational materials science, and thus will have ripple effects in the broader field of materials science and engineering. Graduate student participants are both trained in research and teaching, providing them an opportunity to prepare for future career path in higher education.TECHNICAL SUMMARYThis award supports the Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education which will be held at the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley. Computational approaches have transformed many scientific and engineering disciplines in the last decade. While the complexity of the physics and multiscale nature of materials makes modeling challenging, modern methods of computational materials science are also beginning to produce widespread impact in the design and development of new materials. In response to the needs and challenges identified by the community, the team has established the "Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education," a two-week program that includes an intense course on computational materials science and engineering and focus sessions on educational modules that can be adopted into existing materials science and engineering core courses. Specifically, the team has developed modules that can be integrated into existing undergraduate-level core courses on material thermodynamics, kinetics, electronic properties, and mechanics. Using these modules, the Summer School aims to "educate the educators." Following the events in 2011, 2012, and 2014, the Summer School will continue to be offered in Years 2015, 2016, and 2017. The Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education has helped enable the rapid increase in the rate at which universities and colleges are incorporating computational materials science tools into their core curriculum, thus having an impact on a large number of young materials scientists. In addition to the educational component, the Summer School will also include advanced topics from the forefront of computational materials research, which provides a forum for dissemination of state-of-the-art research. Furthermore, the participants will learn about computational tools that could be incorporated into their research, resulting in a training of future workforce capable of taking advantage of the increasing availability of computational tools for materials design and development. The Summer School will also provide a case study for a method of transforming undergraduate education to embrace technology in a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics subject.