REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experience for undergraduates interested in Materials Science and Engineering

俄克拉荷马州立大学(OSU)赫尔默里奇研究中心(OSU)的本科生研究经验(REU)网站在三年的时间里为不同的有才华的学生提供材料科学和工程研究方面的研究经验。学生研究项目侧重于能源储存、能源发电、生物材料、燃烧和航空航天等跨学科应用的材料加工、测试和表征。此外，还向学生介绍创业和商业化，将研究从实验室规模转移到现实世界，从而提高美国的竞争力。学生来自俄克拉荷马州的学院和大学，这些学院和大学的STEM研究设施有限，学生在STEM中的代表性不足。该项目正在利用俄克拉何马州州立大学与塔尔萨社区学院的现有合作伙伴关系，塔尔萨社区学院是为转到俄克拉何马州州立大学和俄克拉何马州路易斯·斯托克少数民族参与联盟(LSAMP)本科工程专业的美国原住民学生提供支持的计划，以确定多样化的学生申请者群体。REU网站为本科生提供了在航空航天、能源和生物材料等先进制造领域进行深入研究的机会。在为期9周的体验中，学生由经验丰富的教师指导进行材料工程和科学研究项目：3-D打印和直接数字制造、材料加工以及材料测试和表征。这些学生还将：学习尖端材料表征方法(通过在网上参加由伊利诺伊大学香槟分校材料研究实验室提供的为期两天的全国先进材料表征研讨会)；接触到将研究商业化的创业途径(与Riata创业中心合作)；参加一个职业发展计划，其中包括沟通技能培训以及研究生准备和职业信息会议；在夏末的一个研究研讨会上展示他们的研究成果；并有机会与从事材料研究的当地行业合作伙伴(在俄克拉荷马州塔尔萨)进行互动。这个REU网站是由国防部与NSF REU计划合作支持的。

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the Helmerich Research Center at Oklahoma State University (OSU) offers research experiences in materials science and engineering research to a diverse group of talented students over a period of three years. The student research projects focus on materials processing, testing and characterization for interdisciplinary applications in energy storage, energy generation, biomaterials, combustion, and aerospace. In addition, students are introduced to entrepreneurship and commercialization to transition research from the lab-scale to the real world, thus enhancing U.S. competitiveness. Students are recruited from Oklahoma colleges and universities that have limited STEM research facilities and large populations of students underrepresented in STEM. The program is leveraging existing OSU's partnerships with Tulsa Community College, which is a feeder program for Native American students transferring to undergraduate engineering programs at OSU and the Oklahoma Louis Stoke Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) to identify a diverse pool of student applicants. The REU Site offers opportunities to undergraduate students to engage in in-depth research experiences in several areas of advanced manufacturing in aerospace, energy and biomaterials. During the 9-week experience, students are mentored by experienced faculty to conduct materials engineering and science research projects in: 3-D printing and direct digital manufacturing, materials processing, and materials testing and characterization. The students are also: learning about cutting-edge materials characterization methods (through web-based participation in the two-day national workshop on Advanced Materials Characterization offered by the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); exposed to entrepreneurial routes to commercializing research (in collaboration with the Riata Center of Entrepreneurship); participating in a professional development program that includes training in communications skills and graduate school preparation and career information sessions; presenting their research results at a research symposium at the end of the summer; and being provided with opportunities to interact with local industry partners (in Tulsa, OK) that are engaged in materials research. This REU Site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.