REU Site: Tomorrow's Nanomanufacturing: Engineering with Science (TNEWS)

微电子-光子学REU网站为明天的纳米制造：工程与科学（TNEWS）在阿肯色州（UA）的大学合并发现为重点的研究与专业技能培训，以准备新一代的领导人，以加快纳米级材料，设备和工艺的商业制造的翻译。为了提供跨学科培训以及培养创新，团队合作和道德，来自科学和工程学科的教师与纳米制造的行业领导者合作，在设计，计量，沟通和领导经验的框架内指导REU参与者在实验室发现。参与者将从UA和STEM女学生社团的少数民族服务机构合作伙伴中招募，以扩大STEM的参与，并特别考虑第一代和经济困难的学生。参与者将由成功的企业家指导，将发现转化为知识产权，从中可以出现同行评审的出版物，专利申请和纳米制造衍生产品。TNEWS REU校友的长期参与将促进他们在纳米制造的领导地位。UA的REU网站旨在提供（i）桥梁科学和工程的奖励研究经验;（ii）培训使用与纳米制造相关的广泛适用的新兴技术;（iii）培训使用与纳米制造相关的新兴技术。以及（iii）发展专业技能，以REU参与者招募的科学和工程本科生谁是在工程代表性不足，特别是第一代和经济困难的学生。REU参与者将进行以学生为中心的研究项目，主题从量子到纳米材料发现到集成纳米架构的设备和系统。项目针对生物、传感器、能源和电磁技术，这些技术提供可商业化的创新，从中可以出现同行评审的出版物、专利申请和纳米制造衍生产品。REU参与者将定期与他们直接研究实验室外的教师和行业导师互动，以加强学生的研究和进步。这尤其有利于妇女和少数民族。TNEWS将使用经过测试的体验式学习框架对参与者进行创新，设计，计量，团队合作，沟通，道德和领导力方面的培训，该框架为最近的五个UA纳米技术分拆做出了贡献。将这些经验与团队建设活动和指导学生分享相结合，将在明天培养出一批新兴领导者？的纳米制造劳动力谁掌握个人和社区价值观之间的复杂的相互作用，以有效和负责任地将研究发现转化为创造重大利益的商业化创新。相对于九个离散的学习目标的结果将由一个程序评估员使用新颖和成熟的评估方法进行分析，以确保参与者的进步，并完善和发展TNEWS REU网站的管理。

The Microelectronics-Photonics REU site for Tomorrow's Nanomanufacturing: Engineering with Science (TNEWS)at the University of Arkansas (UA) merges discovery-focused research with professional skills training to prepare a rising generation of leaders to speed translation of nano-scale materials, devices and processes to commercial manufacturing. To provide trans-disciplinary training as well as cultivate innovation, teamwork, and ethics, faculty from science and engineering disciplines collaborate with industry leaders in nanomanufacturing to mentor REU participants in laboratory discoveries within a framework of experiences in design, metrology, communication, and leadership. Participants will be recruited from minority-serving institution partners of UA and societies for female STEM students to broaden participation in STEM, with special consideration given to first-generation and economically disadvantaged students. Participants will be mentored by successful entrepreneurs to transform discovery to intellectual property from which peer-reviewed publications, patent applications and nanomanufacturing spinouts can emerge. Long-term engagement among TNEWS REU alumni will be facilitated as they advance to leadership in nanomanufacturing.This REU Site at UA aims to provide (i) rewarding research experiences that bridge science and engineering; (ii) training to use broadly applicable emerging technologies relevant to nanomanufacturing; and (iii) development of professional skills to REU participants recruited from science and engineering undergraduates who are underrepresented in engineering, particularly first-generation and economically disadvantaged students. REU participants will conduct student-focused research projects on topics ranging from quantum to nanoscale materials discovery to devices and systems that integrate nanoarchitectures. Projects target biological, sensor, energy and electromagnetic technologies that offer commercializable innovations from which peer-reviewed publications, patent applications and nanomanufacturing spinouts can emerge. REU participants will interact regularly with faculty and industry mentors outside their immediate research laboratory to enhance student research and progress. This especially benefits women and minorities. TNEWS will train participants in innovation, design, metrology, teamwork, communication, ethics and leadership using a tested experiential learning framework that has contributed to five recent UA nanotech spin-offs. Integrating these experiences with cohort-building activities and mentored student sharing will nurture a cadre of emerging leaders in tomorrow?s nanomanufacturing workforce who grasp complex interactions between personal and community values to effectively and responsibly transform research discovery to commercializable innovations that create significant benefit. Outcomes relative to nine discrete learning objectives will be analyzed by a program evaluator using both novel and proven assessment methodologies to ensure participant progress and to refine and develop administration of the TNEWS REU site.