REU SIte: Southeastern Undergraduate Internship in Nanotechnology (SUIN)

东南纳米技术本科生实习项目(SUIN)为来自美国东南部(包括波多黎各)的本科生提供了在纳米科学和工程(NSE)前沿进行尖端研究的机会。这一快速发展的跨学科领域将使学生能够看到所有科学和工程学科之间的联系，并激励下一代科学家和工程师。本科生参与者获得的研究成果将有助于促进对纳米尺度现象的理解，以及如何利用这些信息来改进对我们社会重要的电子、健康、安全、环境、基础设施等领域的应用。因此，SUIN计划有助于培养一批在STEM和NSE方面接受培训的科学家和工程师，以满足全国劳动力的需求。实习计划将在佐治亚理工学院的电子和纳米技术研究所(IEN/GT)进行，该研究所是国家纳米技术协调基础设施(NNCI)的所在地，也是东南纳米技术基础设施走廊(SENIC)的所在地。学生将通过与教职员工、研究生和教职员工的密切互动来发展研究和沟通技能。该项目允许来自传统上代表性不足的群体的学生与教职员工、导师和员工以及彼此之间建立牢固的关系，这将促进职业发展和继续教育。专业发展课程将鼓励学员攻读高级学位，并为学员提供资源。Suin REU计划将在佐治亚理工学院最先进的纳米技术设施(洁净室、表征和各种实验室)提供全面的培训和令人信服的动手研究经验。一大批致力于让本科生参与研究的教职员工、导师和工作人员将提供广泛的纳米技术领域的项目，这些领域具有大量的跨学科内容(材料、电子、生物、化学、物理等)，允许来自许多专业的学生参与和互动。SUIN计划有四个主要目标：1.提供一个有经验的纳米技术研究项目，并提供先进设备和工具的培训，使学生接触到NSE研究课题的广度；2.鼓励学生探索和追求STEM和NSE的研究生水平的研究和职业；3.招聘并为女性、少数族裔和非研究机构的学生提供机会；以及4.提高学生的沟通和陈述技能，以及对科学研究中的伦理问题的理解。本科生参与者将接受安全和快速的培训，以使用开展研究项目所需的过程和设备。这一高级培训将使他们能够完成定义明确的纳米级研究项目，并在NNCI站点的计划召集结束时展示结果。该计划的参与者将通过每周REU和实验室小组会议进行互动，以及在专业发展课程和研讨会期间与校园内的其他REU进行互动。这些互动将让所有实习生看到纳米科学和工程的广度及其在许多学科中的应用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Southeastern Undergraduate Internship in Nanotechnology (SUIN) offers undergraduate students from the southeastern US, including Puerto Rico, the opportunity to perform cutting-edge research at the forefront of nanoscale science and engineering (NSE). This rapidly developing interdisciplinary field will allow students to see the connections across all science and engineering disciplines and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. Research results obtained by the undergraduate participants will help in the advancement of understanding phenomena at the nanoscale and how this information can be used to improve applications in electronics, health, safety, environment, infrastructure (among others) important to our society. Thus, the SUIN program contributes to the pool of scientists and engineers trained in STEM and NSE meeting a national workforce. The internship program will take place at the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology at the Georgia Institute of Technology (IEN/GT), which is a site of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI)and the home of the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor (SENIC). Students will develop research and communication skills through close interactions with faculty, graduate students, and staff. The program allows students from traditionally under-represented groups to form strong relationships with faculty, mentors, and staff and with each other that will facilitate professional growth and continued education. Professional development offerings will encourage and provide resources for participants to seek advanced degrees. The SUIN REU program will provide thorough training and compelling hands-on research experiences at state-of-the-art nanotechnology facilities (cleanroom, characterization, and assorted labs) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. A large pool of faculty, mentors, and staff, dedicated to engaging undergraduates in research, will provide projects in a broad range of nanotechnology fields with substantial interdisciplinary content (materials, electronics, biology, chemistry, physics, etc.), allowing students from many majors to participate and interact. There are four main goals of the SUIN program: 1. Provide an experiential nanotechnology research project with training on advanced equipment and tools which exposes students to the breadth of NSE research topics; 2. Encourage students to explore and pursue graduate-level research and careers in STEM and NSE; 3. Recruit and provide opportunities for women, minorities, and students from non-research institutions; and 4. Enhance student communication and presentation skills and understanding of ethical issues in scientific research. Undergraduate participants will be safely and quickly trained to use the processes and equipment needed to carry out their research projects. This advanced training will allow them to complete a well-defined nanoscale research project and present the results at the end of program convocation at a NNCI site. The program participants will interact through weekly REU and lab group meetings, as well as with other on campus REUs during professional development offerings and seminars. These interactions will allow all interns to see the breadth of nanoscale science and engineering and its applications across many disciplines.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.