REU-Site: Regional Initiative to Promote Undergraduate Participation in Experimental and Computational Materials Research

非技术部分：阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校(UAB)将主办一个本科生研究体验(REU)网站，内容是实验和计算材料研究。REU网站项目涉及一个历史上的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)合作机构和两所地区性大学，从研究机会有限的学术机构招收学生。UAB将为具有不同物理、化学、应用数学和工程背景的本科生提供广泛的跨学科材料研究经验。本科生将在UAB校园进行为期十周的研究，在材料合成、材料表征、计算机建模和模拟方面获得经验。UAB由理工科教师组成的跨学科团队专门为本科生开发了科研项目。他们专注于材料研究的新兴领域。UAB将向所有本科生参与者提供关于科学交流、负责任的研究行为、寻找研究生院和资助研究生教育以及研究想法商业化的系列讲座。REU的参与者将在同行评议的期刊上发表他们的发现和/或在专业会议上发言，从而导致本科生研究项目中创造的新知识的广泛传播。技术部分：UAB将提供极端条件下的材料、薄膜生长和表征、微电子材料、激光材料、纳米结构生物材料和复合材料、刺激响应性聚合物、材料的电子结构计算和分子动力学模拟等方面的本科研究项目。一些研究项目还将涉及在材料研究中使用国家X射线同步加速器和中子衍射设备。本科生将进行独立研究，同时将成为跨学科研究团队的一部分。本科生项目将具有短期可实现的里程碑，同时为长期的科学目标和技术应用做出贡献。REU学员与教职员工和研究生合作，进行海报和口头演示，撰写研究风格论文，并参加科学交流和伦理方面的培训研讨会，将使REU的学生了解成为一名具有分析、解释和展示科学数据所需关键技能的研究科学家所需的条件。

NON-TECHNICAL PART: The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site in experimental and computational materials research. This REU Site project involves a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) partner institution and two regional universities to recruit students from academic institutions where research opportunities are limited. UAB will offer a broad range of interdisciplinary materials research experiences to undergraduate students with a diversity of backgrounds in physics, chemistry, applied mathematics, and engineering. The undergraduate students will gain experience in materials synthesis, materials characterization, and computer modeling and simulations during their ten-week research stay at the UAB campus The scientific research projects have been specifically developed for undergraduates by an interdisciplinary team consisting of science and engineering faculty at UAB. They focus on emerging areas in materials research. UAB will offer a lecture series on scientific communications, responsible conduct of research, finding graduate school and funding graduate education, and commercialization of research ideas to all undergraduate participants. REU participants will publish their findings in peer-reviewed journals and/or present at professional meetings leading to a broad dissemination of new knowledge created in the undergraduate research projects. TECHNICAL PART: UAB will offer undergraduate research projects in materials under extreme conditions, thin film growth and characterization, microelectronic materials, laser materials, nanostructured biomaterials and composites, stimuli responsive polymers, electronic structure calculations of materials, and molecular dynamics simulations. Some research projects will also involve the use of national X-ray synchrotron and neutron diffraction facilities in materials research. The undergraduate students will carry out independent research while at the same time will be a part of an interdisciplinary research team. The undergraduate student projects will have short-term achievable milestones, while simultaneously contributing to longer-term scientific goals and technological applications. Teaming of REU participants with faculty and graduate students, giving poster and oral presentations, writing a research style paper, and attending training seminars in scientific communications and ethics will enable the REU students to understand what is required to become a research scientist with the critical skills needed for analyzing, interpreting, and presenting scientific data.