Travel Grant: Consortium for the Advancement of Shape Memory Alloy Research and Technology 3rd International Student Design Competition; Konstanz, Germany; May 12-17, 2019

这项资助为本科生和研究生参加2019年5月12日至17日在德国康斯坦茨举行的形状记忆合金研究与技术促进联盟(CASMART)第三届国际学生设计大赛提供旅费支持。设计竞赛将作为形状记忆和超弹性技术国际会议(SMST)的一部分举行。在以往会议成功的基础上，SMST 2019将成为分享和传播智能材料领域最新科学、工程和技术进步的主要论坛。这是设计大赛的第三期，有着健康的美国参赛历史。学生们将提出他们的解决方案，以应对不同行业的设计挑战，如航天和医药。这些设计将由学生基于创造性地使用工程理论和方法、工程设计原则和CASMART成员提供的指导来开发。学生们不仅将接触到竞争对手的有趣作品，还将在国际环境中接触到世界级的学术和工业研究，这将促进他们的个人和职业成长。为了确保劳动力持续增长，以及当前的市场和研发需求，CAMSART于2015年举办了第一次国际学生设计大赛，并在此后每隔一年与SMST会议一起重复举办一次。这笔助学金将支持参加本次设计竞赛的本科生和研究生前往大会，以纸质、海报和硬件演示的形式展示他们的设计。具体来说，有14个学生团队报名参加比赛，代表5所美国大学：科罗拉多矿业学院、德克萨斯农工大学、明尼苏达大学、托莱多大学和北德克萨斯大学。学生团队将竞争他们的设计：为小卫星提供动力的太阳能电池板的展开和定位机制，带曲率校正的紧凑型可展开通信碟子，从发电厂废热气流中回收能量的热机，以及止血带和脊柱侧弯预防装置的最新进展。CASMART将收集学生论文，并将其浓缩成一篇完整的同行评议文章，介绍SMA合金和应用设计实践和工具的最新进展。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。

This grant provides travel support for undergraduate and graduate students to take part in the Consortium for the Advancement of Shape Memory Alloy Research and Technology (CASMART) 3rd International Student Design Competition to be held in Konstanz, Germany from May 12-17, 2019. The design competition will be held as part of the International Conference on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies (SMST). Building on the success of past conferences, SMST 2019 will be the premier forum for sharing and dissemination of the latest scientific, engineering, and technology advances in field of smart materials. This is the 3rd installment of the design competition with a healthy history of US participation. Students will present their solutions to design challenges in various industries, such as astronautics and medicine. The designs will be developed by students based on the creative use of engineering theories and methods, engineering design principles, and mentorship provided by CASMART members. Not only will the students be exposed to the interesting work of fellow competitors, they will also be exposed to world class academic and industrial research in an international environment, which will foster their personal and professional growth.Toward ensuring a workforce to sustain that growth, as well as current market and R&D needs, CAMSART held its first international student design competition in 2015 and has repeated it every-other year since then in conjunction with the SMST conference. This grant will support undergraduate and graduate students participating in this design competition to travel to the conference to present their designs in paper, poster, and hardware demonstration formats. Specifically, there are 14 student teams registered for the competition representing five US Universities: Colorado School of Mines, Texas A&M, University of Minnesota, University of Toledo, and University of North Texas. The student teams will compete their designs for: deployment and orientation mechanisms for solar arrays that power smallsats, compact deployable communications dishes with curvature correction, heat engines for recovering energy from power plant waste heat streams, and advancements in the state of the art for Tourniquets and scoliosis spinal curvature prevention devices. CASMART will collect the student papers and condense them into a full length, peer reviewed article on the advancements in the state of the art in SMA alloy and application design practices and tools.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.