REU Site:Research Experience for Undergraduates at the Temple Materials Institute (TMI)

非技术描述：在我们的社会中，向学术机构的学生扩大研究机会至关重要，因为那里不存在研究和先进的跨学科研究。这个项目的更广泛的影响是创造一个这样的学生管道。通过将REU学生与TUteach导师（职前STEM教师候选人）和暑期高中生（夏季也将在坦普尔大学）进行交流，该项目将灌输一种文化，让任何级别的学生都可以帮助和激励其他学生，并学习如何以更容易理解的水平解释复杂的主题/问题。参加该项目的学生将致力于解决具有基本科学和技术兴趣的问题，并将推进能源储存和转换，等离子体和纳米材料等领域的知识状况。教师导师的选择是基于他们对这些领域的重大贡献，部分由他们的引用影响来衡量。技术说明：该项目的目标是每年夏天让10名本科生沉浸在一个令人兴奋的和广泛的材料研究领域，这些领域将产生巨大的社会和环境影响。该项目将吸引学生在能源储存，纳米材料和催化等领域从事职业。招聘的目标是那些来自两年制本科院校的学生，他们最终将攻读4年制学位，但与研究型大学的同龄人相比，他们将处于很大的劣势。该项目旨在向学生展示，STEM领域的研究或教学对他们来说是一条有趣而有益的职业道路，他们可以为开发一个更清洁的环境和最大限度地减少能源消耗的未来做出贡献。该项目将是跨学科的，结合了化学，物理和工程系的教师。此外，该项目将形成队列（沿着与其他本科暑期学生在坦普尔）的学生谁将在跨学科项目，整合实验和理论/建模研究一起工作。这不仅需要发展交流技能，而且也是研究许多复杂问题的方法。为学生设计的活动旨在（i）对选定的主题进行广泛的概述，例如“为什么必须改进电池？什么是析氧催化剂？什么是分子模拟？'（ii）向学生介绍科学的伦理和语言，即如何撰写论文和发表演讲（通过每周结构化课程）; ㈢显示最新仪器可提供哪些信息（通过Temple Materials Institute讲习班）;（iv）让学生练习和自信地展示自己的研究，并向彼此和教师提出问题（通过展示他们的研究）。所有活动都是及时的，因为许多活动都是针对当今共同的能源挑战。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Non-Technical Description: It is critical in our society to expand research opportunities to students in academic institutions where research and advanced interdisciplinary studies do not exist. The broader impact of this project is to create a pipeline of such students. By interfacing the REU students with TUteach mentors (pre-service STEM teacher candidates) and summer high school students (who will also be at Temple University during the summer), the project will instill a culture where students at any level can help and inspire other students, and learn how to explain complex topics/problems at a more easily understood level. The students participating in this project will be working on problems that are of fundamental scientific and technological interest, and will advance the state of knowledge in areas such as energy storage and conversion, plasmonics and nanomaterials. Faculty mentors have been selected based on their significant contribution to these fields, as partially measured by their citation impact. Technical Description: The objectives of the project are to immerse 10 undergraduate students each summer in an exciting and broad range of materials research in areas that will have enormous societal and environmental impacts. The project will interest the students in pursuing careers in areas such as energy storage, nanomaterials and catalysis. The students targeted for recruitment are those from two year undergraduate institutions who will eventually pursue 4 year degrees, but who will otherwise be at a big disadvantage compared with their peers at research universities. The project will aim to show the students that research or teaching in STEM fields is an interesting and rewarding career path for them, and that they can contribute to developing a future with a cleaner environment, and one that minimizes energy consumption. The project will be interdisciplinary, combining faculty from the Departments of Chemistry, Physics and Engineering. In addition, the project will form cohorts (along with other undergraduate summer students at Temple) of students who will work together on interdisciplinary project that integrate experimental and theory/modeling research. This will not only necessitate the development of communication skills, but is also the way in which many complex problems must be investigated. The activities for the students are designed to (i) give broad overviews of selected topics, e.g. 'Why must batteries be improved?', 'What is an oxygen evolution catalyst?', 'What are molecular simulations?' (via brown bag lunches); (ii) introduce students to the ethics and language of science, i.e. how to write papers and give presentations (via a weekly structured course); (iii) show what information from state-of-the-art instruments can provide (via Temple Materials Institute workshop); (iv) give the students practice and confidence in presenting their own research and also in asking questions to each other and faculty members (via presentations of their research). All activities are timely, as many deal with today's common energy challenges.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.