REU Site for Energy-Efficient Devices and Systems (R-SEEDS)

西密歇根大学（WMU）的REU节能设备和系统网站（R-SEEDS）旨在让本科生参与节能技术研究，设计和开发。开发节能技术（即，在应对污染和气候变化、提高工业和企业竞争力以及降低成本方面，这项为期三年的计划将支持建立一支能够进行能源效率跨学科研究的劳动力队伍。它将激励新一代意识到能源消耗对环境的影响，并能够研究和开发节能系统和技术。该计划还将培训和教育多样化的新研究人员队伍，从而在美国实现更多的技术繁荣。每年有10名参与者将参与为期10周的密集团队项目，致力于尖端研究。这方面的经验将为他们的研究生课程和高要求的工作做好准备在能源效率。REU网站的节能设备和系统（R-SEEDS）在西密歇根大学（WMU）的目的是从事本科生在节能技术的研究，设计和开发。为期三年的R-SEEDS计划将提供广泛的令人兴奋的工程和计算主题的研究项目，如计算机架构和系统，电网组件设计，自动驾驶汽车，纳米卫星，等离子体辅助燃烧，工业碳捕获，神经生物工程和微等离子体灭菌。每年有10名学生将学习实施节能系统所带来的不同挑战以及克服这些挑战的方法。 该计划将进一步培训学生，通过关于能源效率，可持续性，研究方法和工具，研究道德，研究作为职业，研究生学习以及演讲和写作技巧的几个研讨会和研讨会，为他们在工程和科学领域的职业生涯做好准备。所有活动将由三个工程系的学术顾问监督：电气和计算机工程，机械和航空航天工程，化学和造纸工程，并得到工业合作伙伴的支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The REU Site for Energy-Efficient Devices and Systems (R-SEEDS) at Western Michigan University (WMU) aims to engage undergraduate students in energy-efficient technology research, design, and development. The development of energy-efficient technologies (i.e., technologies that require less energy to perform the same function) is a very effective approach to combat pollution and climate change, improve the competitiveness of industries and businesses, and reduce costs. This three-year program will support the creation of a workforce capable of conducting interdisciplinary research in energy efficiency. It will inspire a new generation that is conscious of the effect of energy consumption on the environment and can research and develop energy-efficient systems and technologies. The program will also train and educate a diverse workforce of new researchers, resulting in more technological prosperity in the US. Ten participants each year will be engaged in 10-week intensive team-based projects, working on cutting-edge research. This experience will prepare them for graduate programs and high-demand jobs in energy efficiency.The REU Site for Energy-Efficient Devices and Systems (R-SEEDS) at Western Michigan University (WMU) aims to engage undergraduate students in energy-efficient technology research, design, and development. The three-year R-SEEDS program will offer research projects in a broad range of exciting engineering and computing topics, such as computer architectures and systems, electric grid component design, autonomous vehicles, nanosatellites, plasma-assisted combustion, industrial carbon capture, neurobiological engineering, and microplasma sterilization. Ten students each year will learn the different challenges imposed by implementing energy-efficient systems and ways to overcome those challenges. The program will further train students to prepare them for a career in engineering and science through several workshops and seminars on energy efficiency, sustainability, research methodologies and tools, research ethics, research as a career, graduate studies, and presentation and writing skills. All activities will be supervised by academic advisors from three engineering departments: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Chemical and Paper Engineering, with support from industrial partners. The participants will engage with the advisors’ research group, and academic and industry collaborators.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.