REU Site in Micro/Nano-Structured Materials, Therapeutics, and Devices

REU 微/纳米结构材料、治疗和设备网站

• 批准号: 1063107
• 负责人: Mark Byrne
• 金额: $ 33万
• 依托单位: Auburn University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1063107&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Micro; Nano; Structured

This three year REU Site program at Auburn University is interdisciplinary in nature and has a strong focus on micro and nano-material science and technology. Specific topics will include materials synthesis and characterization, micro/nano particle formation processes, nanomechanics of thin films, carbon-nanotubes, inorganic nano-rods, MEMS, nanoparticulate systems and micro films for drug delivery, nanofibers yarns and fabrics, nanoparticle thin films, and others. The program involves fourteen faculty mentors from diverse academic departments, including Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Polymer and Fiber Engineering, Pharmacy, and Biosystems Engineering.REU participants will be paired with research faculty mentors to work in their laboratories on projects focused on micro/nano-structured materials, therapeutics, and devices. Students will be introduced to skills such as literature searching and review, research design, laboratory research techniques, written and oral presentation, as well as working in a team environment. Students will participate as a group in weekly seminars and workshops that allow cross cultivation of the individual research experience as well as address professional development (e.g., research methods, transferring to a bachelor degree program, steps in the graduate school application process, technical writing, effective presentation skills, professional etiquette training, ethics in science and engineering, patents and commercialization, etc.)The broader impacts of the proposed project include: 1)providing an interdisciplinary research environment to a diverse group of undergraduate participants from Alabama and Gulf State four-year institutions and community colleges with limited opportunity to engage in research activities; 2)increasing the number of women and underrepresented minorities in research;3)encouraging community college students and siblings to pursue bachelor degrees in science and technology areas;4)encouraging students and siblings at undergraduate institutions to pursue graduate studies;5)enhancing professional development and career guidance;6)fostering undergraduate research opportunities throughout Auburn University; and 7)promoting faculty development through the undergraduate research mentoring experience.

奥本大学为期三年的 REU 站点项目本质上是跨学科的，重点关注微米和纳米材料科学与技术。具体主题将包括材料合成和表征、微/纳米颗粒形成过程、薄膜纳米力学、碳纳米管、无机纳米棒、MEMS、纳米颗粒系统和用于药物输送的微米薄膜、纳米纤维纱线和织物、纳米颗粒薄膜、和其他人。该计划涉及来自不同学术部门的 14 名教师导师，包括化学工程、化学、机械和材料工程、聚合物和纤维工程、制药和生物系统工程。REU 参与者将与研究教师导师配对，在他们的实验室中从事重点项目的工作微/纳米结构材料、疗法和设备。将向学生介绍文献检索和评论、研究设计、实验室研究技术、书面和口头报告以及团队环境等技能。学生将作为一个小组参加每周的研讨会和讲习班，这些研讨会和讲习班可以交叉培养个人研究经验并解决专业发展问题（例如研究方法、转入学士学位课程、研究生院申请过程中的步骤、技术写作、有效的演讲技巧、专业礼仪培训、科学和工程伦理、专利和商业化等）拟议项目的更广泛影响包括：1）为来自阿拉巴马州和海湾州四的多元化本科参与者群体提供跨学科研究环境年机构和参与研究活动机会有限的社区学院； 2) 增加研究中的女性和代表性不足的少数群体的数量；3) 鼓励社区学院的学生和兄弟姐妹攻读科学技术领域的学士学位；4) 鼓励本科院校的学生和兄弟姐妹攻读研究生；5) 加强专业发展和职业指导；6）在整个奥本大学培养本科生研究机会； 7）通过本科生研究指导经验促进教师发展。