MRI: Acquisition of 3D Imaging and Printing Instrumentation to Support Interdisciplinary Research at Indiana University of Pennsylvania

该合同将用于购买结构白光3D表面扫描仪。结构化白光扫描使用一条投影线和光学相机来捕捉物体表面的地形和纹理。这些扫描仪准确、便携，在考古学、工程学和形态学领域很受欢迎。这一新工具将在宾夕法尼亚印第安纳大学(IUP)三所学院的五个系立即生效。它将通过扩大IUP本科生研究人员的机会，促进校园内以及与非营利组织、政府和行业合作伙伴的新合作，来改善研究环境。IUP是一家以本科生为主的机构，服务于农村学生群体，包括许多第一代大学生，并为学生提供实践研究机会。该仪器将服务于多个学科，并向IUP的所有部门提供，附近的学术机构和区域非营利组织和行业合作伙伴可能会有更多的用户。这一奖项将支持来自人类学、生物学、化学、地球科学系和IUP其他部门的研究人员，为跨学科研究开辟新的机会。所要求的仪器使教师和学生的研究跨越了广泛的主题，例如：1)测量灭绝脊椎动物的质心变化，2)脊椎动物化石的形态识别，3)扩大人类遗骸和动物考古学数字类型库，4)克利夫兰-劳埃德恐龙采石场生物地层的数字评估和更准确的化石运输的现实分类实验，5)确定军官个人防护装备(PPE)和值班装备的个性化适合性与生物力学性能之间的关系，6)可视化中生代哺乳动物的大脑内胚层、中耳和内耳的形态，以及牙齿形状，7)蛋白质结合部位结构域的分析。这一奖项反映了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 award will fund the acquisition of a structured white-light 3D surface scanner. Structured white-light scanning uses a projected line of light and optical cameras to capture the topography and texture of an object’s surface. Accurate and portable, these scanners have become popular in the fields of archaeology, engineering, and morphology. This new tool will have immediate impact in five departments across three colleges at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). It will enhance the research environment by broadening the opportunities available to undergraduate researchers at IUP, promoting new collaborations on campus and with non-profit, government, and industry partners. IUP is a predominantly undergraduate institution serving a rural student demographic, including many first-generation college students, and providing hands-on research opportunities to students. The instrumentation will serve multiple disciplines and be available to all departments at IUP, with the potential for additional users from nearby academic institutions and regional non-profit and industry partners. This award will support researchers from the departments of Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, Geoscience, and others at IUP, opening new opportunities for interdisciplinary research. The faculty and student research enabled by the requested instrumentation spans a wide range of topics, such as: 1) measuring center-of-mass change in extinct vertebrates, 2) morphometric identification of fossil vertebrates, 3) expanding a human remains and zooarcheological digital type library, 4) digital assessments of biostratinomy at the Cleveland-Lloyd dinosaur quarry and more accurate actualistic taphonomic experiments of fossil transport, 5) determining the relationship between personalized fit and biomechanical performance of officer personal protective equipment (PPE) and duty gear, 6) visualizing the morphology of the brain endocast, the middle and inner ear, and the tooth shape of Mesozoic mammals, and 7) analysis of protein binding site domains.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.