REU Site: Integrated Nanomanufacturing

该项目的广泛意义：纳米制造研究是纳米技术和制造的交叉点上的一个新兴的交叉学科领域。纳米技术寻求开发和合成在纳米尺度上操纵、测量或控制物理过程的系统，而集成的纳米制造包括纳米制造和材料研究。波士顿大学(BU)在集成纳米制造方面的REU站点将吸引来自大学和两年制学院的10名本科生在波士顿大学Charles River校区的30多个潜在的跨学科实验室进行暑期研究，这些实验室涉及纳米技术、电气和计算机、生物医学、材料科学和/或机械工程。REU网站将为来自不同工程学科的学生提供跨学科和变革性的体验，反映出BU在集成纳米制造方面导师的多样性。该计划的目标是招募10名参与者中至少50%的人来自代表性不足的少数族裔，至少50%的女性参与者。培训来自STEM研究能力有限的大学的女性和代表不足的少数族裔进行研究生学习，将对使未来纳米技术榜样多样化产生最大影响。参与者将沉浸在研究中，同时通过教师和研究生的指导培训获得适当的研究技术教育，并在项目开始时商定明确的学习目标。REU现场计划将组织为各种培训课程、实践洁净室活动、指定实验室的科学研究以及为本科生举办的研讨会。波士顿大学NSF REU集成纳米制造网站将提供一个项目，旨在培养多样化的下一代纳米技术工程师群体。项目描述：参与者将通过独特的基于问题的研究经验进行指导和指导，从基本技能建设到开放式发现，重点是培养研究独立性。通过导师培训，学员还将参与纳米技术含量、技能发展和职业准备的培训计划，重点是跨学科的工程主题。参与者还将在导师的实验室和研究导师培训计划中沉浸在积极的研究文化中，这有助于塑造学员和导师对研究、研究生院和其他STEM职业选择的认识、信心和理解。学生将参与纳米级的有指导的发现、新设备的工程和制造，以探索光学和集成纳米级系统，同时培养必要的关键技能、意识和信心，以便在学术和研究领域的职业道路上取得进步。通过这个网站，学生们将有机会通过演讲与波士顿大学的研究社区分享他们的工作，并根据他们的研究成果提交给国家会议或合著者出版物。三个主题研究领域将作为REU网站的基础：1)材料合成和表征，2)光子和电子纳米结构的结合，以及3)产生、感知和操纵的纳米系统的集成。该项目将强调未被充分代表的少数民族学生，包括新手(一年级和二年级本科生)的参与，以建立主要的种族和民族，但也在参与者之间建立制度、技术和经验的多样性，并在国家研究生申请者库中培养更多的多样性。招聘将利用波士顿大学与历史上的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)和西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)之间的牢固现有关系。这个NSF REU网站的招聘也将集中在两年制大学以及缺乏STEM研究生研究的四年制大学。作为REU网站目标的一部分，十名参与者中至少有50%来自没有STEM研究生研究机会的大学，至少50%的少数民族代表不足，50%的女性参与者将被招募。美国武装部队退伍军人的本科生也将被鼓励申请。NSF REU网站集成纳米制造得到了国家科学基金会工程教育和中心部门(EEC)的资助。

BROADER SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROJECT:Nanomanufacturing research is an emerging interdisciplinary area at the intersection of nanotechnology and fabrication. Nanotechnology seeks to develop and synthesize systems that manipulate, measure or control physical processes at the nanoscale, while integrated nanomanufacturing incorporates nanofabrication and materials research. The Boston University (BU) REU Site in Integrated Nanomanufacturing will bring ten undergraduate students from universities and two-year colleges to engage in summer research in more than 30 potential interdisciplinary labs in Nanotechnology, Electrical and Computer, Biomedical, Materials Science, and/or Mechanical Engineering at the Boston University Charles River campus. The REU Site will offer an interdisciplinary and transformative experience to students from varying engineering disciplines that reflect the diversity of the BU mentors in Integrated Nanomanufacturing. The program's target is to recruit at least 50% of the 10 participants from underrepresented minorities and at least 50% female participants. Training female and underrepresented minorities from universities that have limited STEM research capabilities for graduate studies will provide the largest impact to diversifying future role models in nanotechnology. Participants will be immersed in research while simultaneously gaining an education in the proper techniques for research via mentored training from faculty and graduate students with clear learning goals agreed upon at the start of the program. The REU site program will be organized into various training sessions, hands-on cleanroom activities, scientific research in appointed laboratories and seminars for undergraduate research students. The Boston University NSF REU Site in Integrated Nanomanufacturing will provide a program with the aim of educating a diverse group of the next generation of engineers in nanotechnology.PROJECT DESCRIPTION:Participants will be mentored and coached through a unique problem-based research experience, from basic skills building to open-ended discovery, with a focus on developing research independence. Through the mentored training, participants will also engage in a training program of nanotechnology content, skills development, and career preparation with a focus on interdisciplinary engineering topics. Participants will also be immersed in a positive research culture in the mentor's laboratories and through the research mentoring training program that favorably shapes the mentee's and mentor's awareness, confidence and understanding of research, graduate school and other STEM career choices. Students will participate in mentored discovery, engineering of new devices, and fabrication at the nanoscale level to explore optical and integrated nanoscale systems, while developing critical skills, awareness and confidence necessary to advance along their career pathways in academics and research. Through this site, students will gain the opportunity to share their work with the research community at BU through presentations and to also submit to national conferences or co-author publications based on their research. Three thematic research areas will serve as the foundation for this REU Site: 1) Materials synthesis and characterization, 2) Combination photonic and electronic nanostructures, and 3) Integration of nanosystems that generate, sense, and manipulate.The project will emphasize the participation of underrepresented minority students, including novices (first and second year undergraduates) to establish primarily racial and ethnic, but also institutional, technical, and experiential diversity among the participants and to seed greater diversity in the national graduate student applicant pool. Recruiting will utilize strong existing relationships BU has with historically Black colleges and Universities (HBCU's) and Hispanic serving institutions (HSI's). Recruiting for this NSF REU site will also be concentrated on two-year colleges as well as four-year colleges that lack graduate research in STEM. As part of the REU site goals, a minimum of 50% of ten participants will be from colleges where graduate research opportunities in STEM are unavailable with a minimum of 50% underrepresented minorities and 50% female participants to be recruited. Undergraduate students who are veterans of the U.S. Armed Services will also be encouraged to apply.The NSF REU site Integrated Nanomanufacturing has been funded by the National Science Foundation Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC).