REU Site: Green Energy Technology Undergraduate Program

罗格斯大学的本科生绿色能源技术研究项目（GET-UP）是一个为期三年的更新项目，旨在满足国家对环保电力的需求，并为此目的，丰富STEM专业人员的人口，他们准备应对与国家需求相关的技术挑战。该计划将通过招募可能没有机会参与本科研究的学生来扩大其影响，例如（但不限于）代表性不足的少数民族和女性、两年制大学的学生、退伍军人、第一代大学生和经济困难的学生。GET UP的智力重点围绕三个重点：纳米技术和材料、可再生和可持续燃料、设备和能源管理系统以及用于能源产生、转换和储存的民用结构。该项目增加了新的组成部分，以提高GET UP学员在STEM领域的自我效能感：一个行业咨询委员会和一个关于项目转型中性别内隐偏见的研讨会和研究。GET UP的目标是：(1)在夏季的10周时间里，让本科生（UG）参与创新的“绿色”科学和工程研究，(2)为UG学者提供专业发展和学术充实计划，(3)培养大学生对科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）的理解。REU学者将花费大部分时间进行研究，而其余时间将分配给专业和学术发展，研讨会，实地考察和旨在发展学生与教师互动和学生与学生交流的社会活动。学生将在学年期间获得电子指导和资助，用于发表论文和参加技术会议。

This three year renewal Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site program, Green Energy Technology for Undergraduates Program (GET-UP) at Rutgers University was developed to address the national need for environmentally friendly power and to this end, enrich the population of STEM professionals that are prepared to tackle the technical challenges associated with this national need. The proposed program will broaden its impact via recruitment of students who may not have an opportunity to engage in undergraduate research, such as (but not limited to) underrepresented minorities and women, students from two-year colleges, veterans, and first-generation college and economically disadvantaged students. The intellectual focus of GET UP centers around three thrusts: nanotechnology and materials, renewable and sustainable fuels, and devices and energy management systems and civil structures for energy generation, conversion and storage. New components have been added to the program to enhance GET UP fellows' self-efficacy in STEM: an industrial advisory board and a workshop and study on gender implicit bias for programmatic transformation. The goals of GET UP are to: (1) engage undergraduate (UG) students in innovative "green" science and engineering research over 10 weeks during the summer, (2) provide UG scholars with professional development and academic enrichment programs and (3) foster UGs' understanding of science, technology and engineering and math (STEM). REU scholars will spend the majority of their time conducting research, while the remaining time will be allotted for professional and academic development, seminars, field trips, and social events aimed at developing student-faculty interaction and student-student communication. Students will be supported during the academic year through e-mentoring and funding for publication of papers and travel to technical conferences.