MRI: Acquisition of a CNC Micro-Milling Workstation to Enhance Multidisciplinary Research and Teaching at Texas A&M International University and Texas A&M Kingsville

项目名称：MRI：购置一台CNC微铣削工作站以加强德州农工国际大学和德州农工大学金斯维尔分校的多学科研究和教学意义仪器的新功能将对他们招聘高质量教职员工的能力产生直接和持久的影响。维拉诺瓦大学在招聘下一代教员时，将提供使用尖端设备的机会。对纳米材料制造和开发的重视需要他们的实验设施的升级，以吸引顶尖的研究人员和教育工作者，当他们加入这个充满活力的群体时，他们可以立即产生影响。PI和联合PI都致力于改善工程和科学领域代表性不足的少数民族的机会和机会，该资助的两位校长是女性STEM教员。这5个pi加起来为16名研究生提供指导，其中7名是女性，并为19名本科生提供指导，其中5名是女性。布林莫尔学院成立于1885年，是美国第一所向女性提供博士学位的学院，本科专业仍然是全女性，有1300名女性，其中26%的人主修数学或科学。维拉诺瓦工程学院也是女学生比例最高的学院之一，几乎占工程学院入学人数的三分之一。技术描述所要求的工作站将作为一个工具，吸引本科生和研究生进入TAMIU和TAMUK的多学科科学和工程研究，这两个主要机构为南德克萨斯州历史上代表性不足的少数民族学生提供STEM项目。该工作站将扩大制造能力，并提高本科生研究机会的质量。具体来说，新的微制造设备将使学生能够在各种新兴研究领域进行研究，包括微制造，微流体装置和生物微机电系统（生物mems），这对南德克萨斯州的学生来说相对较新。PI和联合PI在高度研究导向的机构的新领域受过良好的培训，他们都处于研究领域的前沿，非常活跃地发表和参加专业会议，传播和分享他们的研究成果。他们还将继续在一年中的任何时候为有动力的学生提供研究经验，将工作站的使用纳入课程、讲习班和高级项目，并鼓励他们发表科学研究成果。

PI: Kim, NamwonProposal: 1429556Title: MRI: Acquisition of a CNC Micro-Milling Workstation to Enhance Multidisciplinary Research and Teaching at Texas A&M International University and Texas A&M KingsvilleSignificanceThe new capabilities of the instrument will create an immediate and lasting impact on their ability to recruit high-quality faculty members. As Villanova hires its next generation of faculty members, it will be offer access to leading-edge equipment. The emphasis on nanomaterials fabrication and development necessitates the upgrading of their experimental facilities to attract leading researchers and educators who can make an immediate impact as they join this dynamic group. The PI and co-PIs are all dedicated to improving opportunities and access for under-represented minorities in engineering and the sciences and two of the principals on this grant are female STEM faculty members. The five PIs combined are advising 16 graduate students, 7 of whom are women, and are working with 19 undergraduate students, including 5 women. Bryn Mawr College was established in 1885 as the first institution in the US to offer Ph.D. degrees to women and the undergraduate program remains all-female, featuring 1300 women, 26% of whom are majoring in math or science. The Villanova College of Engineering also features one of the highest percentages of female students studying engineering, at almost 1/3 of the engineering school enrollment.Technical DescriptionThe requested workstation will serve as a vehicle to draw undergraduate and graduate students into multidisciplinary science and engineering research at TAMIU and TAMUK, which are two main institutions providing STEM programs to historically underrepresented minority students in South Texas. The workstation will broaden the capability of manufacturing and enhance the quality of the undergraduate research opportunities. Specifically, the new micro-manufacturing equipment will enable students to conduct research in a variety of emerging research areas, including microfabrication, microfluidic devices, and bio-micromechanicalelectrical systems (bio-MEMS), which are relatively new to students in South Texas. The PI and co-PIs are well trained in the new areas from highly research oriented institutions and they are all on the frontier of their research fields and very active in publishing and attending professional conferences to disseminate and share their research findings. They will also continue to make research experiences available any time of the year for motivated students by integrating the use of the workstation into the courses, workshops as well as senior projects and encourage them to publish scientific research.