REU Site: Summer Bridge Program in Experimental Physics

该奖项支持亚利桑那大学物理学REU项目的继续。学生可以在亚利桑那大学物理系资深教员的指导下，从各种各样的前沿物理活动中进行选择，也可以从位于其他几个大学学术单元的研究小组中进行选择，这些研究小组包括天文学、化学、光学、月球和行星研究以及大气科学。参与者的主要来源是那些在皮马社区学院完成了相当于一年级或二年级理工科课程的学生，为转到四年制学位课程做准备(尽管所有本科生都有资格申请)。物理系的研究生助教担任学员的导师。为使学生能够对研究项目做出重大贡献，特别指导和技能活动被单独定制。学生在REU开始时在一个为期1.5周的强化训练营中接受研究培训。在这里，他们学习机械加工、数字电子和计算机接口等基本实验室技能，由训练有素的教员和研究生导师授课；他们参加团队建设练习，如科学演讲和弹射器比赛；他们参观各种提供暑期REU工作的研究实验室。参与者根据学生的喜好和技能被配对到研究实验室，进行为期8.5周的研究体验，最终以为期半天的REU研讨会结束。在研究期间，学生受到研究生导师的密切指导。

This award supports the continuation of the REU program in physics at the University of Arizona. Students may choose from a wide variety of forefront physics activities, under the direction of senior faculty members from the Department of Physics at the University of Arizona, or also from in research groups located in several other university academic units including Astronomy, Chemistry, Optical Sciences, Lunar and Planetary Studies, and Atmospheric Sciences. The primary source of participants is students who have completed the equivalent of the first or second year curriculum in science or engineering at Pima Community College, in preparation for transfer to a 4-year degree program (although all undergraduate students are eligible to apply). Graduate Teaching Assistants from the physics department serve as mentors for the participants. Special orientation and skills activities are individually tailored to enable the students to make significant contributions to the research projects.Students are trained for research in an intensive training camp for 1.5 weeks at the start of the REU. Here they learn essential lab skills such as machining, digital electronics and computer interfacing, taught by trained faculty and graduate mentors; they take part in team-building exercises such as scientific speaking and a catapult competition; and they tour the various research labs offering summer REU work. Participants are matched to research labs according to student preferences and skills, for a research experience lasting 8.5 weeks, culminating in a half-day REU symposium. Students are closely guided by the graduate mentors during the research period.