REU Site: Intelligent Energetic Systems Engineering (INTENSE)

智能能量系统工程（INTENSE）REU在新墨西哥州矿业与技术研究所（NMIMT，新墨西哥州技术）将从事与机器人，智能材料，爆炸物，高速流体动力学和冲击物理学相关的独特研究的本科生。 有一个明显的需要更多的美国公民与研究经验，以填补全国各地的科学和工程职位，特别是为国防部（DOD），能源部（DOE）和国家航空航天局（NASA）复杂和相关的工业基地。 参与该REU的学生将完成与NMIMT正在进行的联邦资助研究直接相关的个人研究和设计项目;建立技能，知识和接触与这些国家招聘需求相关的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科。 研究项目将调查智能和能量系统的跨学科工程和科学，包括探索人机交互和反馈的具体项目，以及反应高能材料系统的复杂化学-热-流体动力学。 参加者将通过对桑迪亚国家实验室和克特兰空军基地航天器和定向能源局的图尔斯参观，接触到NMIMT和著名国家设施的尖端研究设施。 学生将主要从美国西南部的机构与有限的本科研究机会招募。 加强REU将有重点的西班牙裔，美洲原住民和退伍军人少数民族的代表性不足的人口招聘，支持NMIMT？西班牙裔服务机构的地位。INTENSE REU的目标和影响是提高对STEM研究和研究生学习的兴趣，增加智能和精力充沛系统的技术知识，提高研究技能，增加STEM职业机会，让学生参与长期STEM指导关系，并为少数民族和代表性不足的人群增加STEM机会。 每年夏天，八名学生将参加一个为期九周的计划，在实验室与教师和研究生导师进行研究，探索智能和充满活力的系统。 高能系统的主题，包括爆炸物，推进，冲击物理和高速率的影响，在全国极少数大学教授，与NMIMT是公认的国家领导人在该领域。INTENSE REU参与者将接触到涉及智能和充满活力的系统的独特研究，这些系统正在通过一系列联邦资助机制进行，包括联邦资助的研究和开发中心（FFRDCs）的支持。 参与者将扩大他们的工程？工具箱？通过实践研究和一系列小组开发活动，涵盖主题包括：图书馆资源，实验规划，数据分析和技术交流。 学生将通过每周的社交午餐聚会，并在夏季结束时在NMIMT举行的技术会议上发表三分钟的演讲和技术海报，与彼此和他们的教师和研究生导师联系。 教师和研究生的导师培训将改善关系，提高研究效率，并提供与REU学生的长期联系。 有针对性的学生招募将导致代表性不足的少数民族学生无法获得研究在他们的本科院校接触到国家利益的STEM研究，从而扩大国家劳动力的多样性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。

The Intelligent Energetic Systems Engineering (INTENSE) REU at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMIMT, New Mexico Tech) will engage undergraduate students in unique research related to robotics, smart materials, explosives, high-speed fluid dynamics, and shock physics. There is a distinct need for more US citizens with research experience to fill science and engineering positions across the country, particularly for the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Energy (DOE), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) complexes and associated industrial bases. Students involved in this REU will complete individual research and design projects directly related to federally-funded research being performed at NMIMT; building skills, knowledge, and exposure to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines relevant to these national hiring needs. The research projects will investigate the interdisciplinary engineering and science of intelligent and energetic systems, including specific projects to explore human-robot interactions and feedback, and the complex chemical-thermo-fluid-dynamics of reacting energetic material systems. Participants will be exposed to cutting edge research facilities at NMIMT and at prominent national facilities through tours of Sandia National Laboratories and Kirtland Air Force Base Space Vehicles and Directed Energy Directorates. Students will be recruited primarily from Southwestern US institutions with limited undergraduate research opportunities. INTENSE REU will have focused recruitment of under-represented populations of Hispanic, Native American, and Veteran minorities, supporting NMIMT?s Hispanic Serving Institution status. The INTENSE REU objectives and impacts are to increase interest in STEM research and graduate studies, increase technical knowledge of Intelligent and Energetic Systems, increase research skills, increase exposure to STEM career opportunities, engage students in long-term STEM mentoring relationships, and enhance STEM opportunities for minority and under-represented populations. Each summer, eight students will participate in a nine-week program conducting research in laboratories with faculty and graduate student mentors, exploring intelligent and energetic systems. Energetic systems topics including explosives, propulsion, shock physics, and high-rate impacts are taught at extremely few universities nationally, with NMIMT being a recognized national leader in the field. INTENSE REU participants will be exposed to unique research involving intelligent and energetic systems that is being performed through a range of federal funding mechanisms, including support from federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). Participants will broaden their engineering ?toolbox? through hands-on research and a series of group Toolbox Development Activities covering topics including: library resources, experiment planning, data analysis, and technical communication. Students will connect with each other and their faculty and graduate-student mentors through weekly social lunch gatherings and by presenting a three-minute speech and technical poster in an end-of-summer technical conference held at NMIMT. Mentor training for faculty and graduate students will improve relationships, increase research effectiveness, and provide long-term connections with REU students. Targeted student recruitment will result in under-represented minority students with no access to research at their undergraduate institutions to be exposed to STEM research of national interest, and thus expanding the diversity of the national workforce.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.