REU in Applied Physics at University of South Florida

非技术描述：应用物理是一个多元化和跨学科的领域，对技术和社会进步至关重要，这些进步影响我们在全球范围内的国家竞争力，并导致人类生活质量的改善。这个应用物理学的REU网站将努力培养下一代科学家和工程师，他们将在能源，环境，医学，微电子和纳米电子，信息技术和其他关键技术等至关重要的领域工作。 NSF REU网站的主要目标是为本科院校的学生提供高质量的应用物理激励研究经验，以进入这一重要的研究领域，并作为研究生继续他们在科学和工程领域的职业生涯。主要目标是：（1）为来自主要本科院校的学生提供研究经验，包括少数民族和女性学生;（2）促进研究方法，实验室技能，批判性思维，组织，口头和书面沟通技巧的学习;（3）参与前沿研究，REU学生可以在专业会议上展示他们的结果，并在同行评议的期刊上发表;（4）让学生参与具有创新概念的项目，这些概念有可能影响技术，教育他们将研究想法转化为商业产品所需的步骤，并点燃一些学生的创业精神，这可能有助于宣传美国的独创性;（5）使研究经验提供给社区学院的学生谁没有完全从事高等教育，但有实现更高的学术目标的潜力。技术说明：学生可以选择与16位教师导师中的一位合作，这些导师在应用物理学的不同研究领域，包括：（1）可再生能源材料，（2）传感器的磁性和铁电材料，（3）超材料，（4）纳米复合材料，（5）生物生物医学物理学，（6）计算物理学和（7）原子分子光学物理学。 此外，研究经验将通过几个特殊的专业发展计划，如每周REU范围内的研讨会计划，每周讲座系列“应用物理学的进展”，以及研讨会，以发展口语和沟通技巧丰富。 在课程结束时，学生将在全校范围的REU研讨会上展示他们的工作，一组选定的学生将在全国会议上展示他们的研究成果。参与应用型项目的学生将学习将基础研究转化为商业产品的步骤。

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Applied Physics is a diverse and interdisciplinary area that is critical to technological and societal advances that affect our national competitiveness on the global level and lead to improvements in the quality of human life. This REU site in Applied Physics will strive to nurture the next generation of scientists and engineers who will work in areas of critical importance such as energy, environment, medicine, micro and nanoelectronics, information technologies, and other key enabling technologies. The primary goal of the NSF REU site is to provide high quality motivational research experiences in Applied Physics for students from undergraduate institutions to enter this important area of research, and continue their careers in Science and Engineering as graduate students. Main objectives are: (1) To provide research experience to students from predominantly undergraduate institutions, including minority and female students; (2) To facilitate learning of research methods, laboratory skills, critical thinking, organizational, oral and written communication skills; (3) Involvement in cutting-edge research where REU students can present their results at professional meetings and publish in peer-reviewed journals; (4) Engage students in projects with innovative concepts with potential to affect technology, to educate them on steps required to transform research ideas to commercial products, and to kindle the entrepreneurial spirit in some students that may help to propagate American ingenuity; (5) Make the research experience available to Community Colleges students who have not been engaged fully in higher education, but have the potential for achieving higher academic goals. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Students have the choice of working with one of 16 faculty mentors in diverse areas of research in Applied Physics that include: (1) materials for renewable energy, (2) magnetic and ferroelectric materials for sensors, (3) metamaterials, (4) nanocomposites, (5) bio-biomedical physics, (6) computational physics, and (7) atomic-molecular-optical physics. In addition, research experiences will be enriched by several special professional development programs such as weekly REU-wide seminar programs, a weekly lecture series in "Advances in Applied Physics", and workshops to develop oral and communication skills. At the end of the program students will present their work in a university-wide REU symposium, and a selected group of students will present their research results in national conferences. Students involved in application-oriented projects will learn the steps involved in transforming basic research into commercial products.