REU Site: Undergraduate Research Integrating Computation and Experiment to Create Revolutionary Materials

非技术描述：科罗拉多矿业学院将主办一个本科生研究经验(REU)网站，重点培养在材料科学和数据分析交叉领域拥有专业知识的下一代科学家和工程师。为了向在本国机构有有限研究机会的学生提供尖端研究，积极从社区学院和主要是本科院校招收学生。培训通过正式指导、实践研究、与数据密集型地方实验室和企业接触以及准备和提供研究成果的公开陈述来进行。这些研究项目的重点是开发变革性材料，使从碳捕获到光伏再到电池的新技术和应用成为可能。技术描述：REU网站在能源材料的背景下处理材料基因组倡议。学生们正在积累大型材料科学数据集的生成、管理和分析方面的经验。在结构和电子材料领域，空间研究项目非常多样化，从设计用于碳捕获的多孔材料到热电材料发现，再到半导体薄膜的组合生长。这些研究项目本质上是跨学科的，涉及来自不同系的教职员工及其附属研究生。其中许多项目涉及与国家实验室和相关用户设施或行业合作伙伴的密切合作。除了技术技能发展，还致力于提高学生的专业技能和作为科学家的自我认同感。总之，这些培训目标在最后一周达到顶峰，为一次全国会议准备了一张海报和相关的演示文稿。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。

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The Colorado School of Mines will host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on training the next generation of scientists and engineers with expertise at the intersection of materials science and data analytics. With the goal of providing cutting-edge research to students with limited research opportunities at their home institutions, students are actively recruited from community colleges and primarily undergraduate institutions. Training is occurring through formal instruction, hands-on research, engagement with data-intensive local laboratories and businesses, and preparing and delivering public presentations of research results. The research projects focus on developing transformative materials that enable new technologies and applications ranging from carbon capture to photovoltaics to batteries. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The REU site addresses the Materials Genome Initiative within the context energy materials. Students are gaining experience in the generation, curation, and analysis of large materials science datasets. Across the structural and electronic materials space research projects are quite diverse, ranging from designing porous materials for carbon capture to thermoelectric material discovery to the combinatorial growth of semiconductor films. The research projects are inherently interdisciplinary, involving faculty members from different departments and their affiliated graduate students. Many of these projects involve strong collaborations with national laboratory and associated user facilities or industry partners. Beyond technical skills development, significant effort is devoted to enhancing students’ professional skills and self-identity as a scientist. Together, these training objectives culminate in the final week with preparing a poster and associated presentation for a national conference.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.