REU: AERO-U: Aerospace Engineering Research Opportunities for Undergraduates

REU：AERO-U：本科生航空航天工程研究机会

• 批准号: 1157070
• 负责人: Dimitris Lagoudas
• 金额: $ 38.31万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1157070&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; AERO; Aerospace; Engineering; Research

This three year REU Site award will engage 10 undergraduate students in research focuses in computational and experimental multi-scale physics in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. The objectives of this REU are to: (1) Involve a total of ten students, for ten-weeks in each of three summers, in three key research areas of multi-scale physics (solid mechanics, fluid and plasma dynamics, system dynamics and control); (2) Encourage participation of students from underrepresented minorities, which includes females; (3) Provide information on graduate school and encourage students to apply; (4) Provide opportunities for REU students to present and publish with faculty and collaborate beyond the summers if possible; and (5) Provide networking and community-building opportunities among REU, TAMU students, and faculty.The project will enable access to limited research opportunities in multi-scale physics. Specific research areas include plasma flow physics and electromagnetic space propulsion systems, novel turbulence physics models, and hypersonic flow physics. Many of these areas are critical to national goals, USA leadership in space exploration, future aerospace transportation needs, and homeland security, in addition to connecting to current research and challenges faced by engineering on a global level.The program also seeks to enhance and diversify the pool of talented students considering research careers in multi-scale physics by enabling access for women and underrepresented groups to aerospace engineering research. Participating students will be involved in research that can contribute to increased understanding of meso-scale and multi-scale physics and new approaches to modeling such phenomena. Faculty and student mentors will work closely with the College of Engineering's Institute of Engineering Education and Innovation on ensuring the experience includes aspects of multi-disciplinary design, experiential learning, systems thinking/engineering, and professional development for the students. In addition, the students will be a part of a larger group of undergraduate researchers through our collaboration with the College of Engineering's Undergraduate Summer Research Grant program, which works with in excess of 60 students each summer. Students who complete the program will be tracked through professional and social networking sites (Linked-In, Facebook, etc.). After participating, REU students will receive information they can use in recruiting for the REU or for outreach visits that they can initiate on their own and continue keeping this access to the careers open. Participating students will be required to display their posters and recruit future REU students at their home institutions, i.e., practice each one, reach one and teach one.

这三年的REU网站奖将使10名本科生参与德克萨斯A＆M大学航空航天工程系的计算和实验性多尺度物理学的研究重点。此REU的目标是：（1）在三个夏天的每个夏季，在三个关键的多尺度物理学（固体力学，流体和等离子体动力学，系统动力学和控制）的三个关键研究领域中，总共涉及十个学生，在三个夏天的每个夏季中为十周的学生涉及十周的学生； （2）鼓励来自代表性不足的少数民族的学生参加，其中包括女性； （3）提供有关研究生院的信息，并鼓励学生申请； （4）为REU学生提供了与教师展示和出版的机会，并在可能的情况下在夏季之外进行合作； （5）在REU，TAMU学生和教职员工之间提供网络和社区建设机会。该项目将使多尺度物理学的研究机会获得有限的研究机会。特定的研究领域包括等离子体流体物理和电磁空推进系统，新型的湍流物理模型以及高血压流体物理。这些领域中的许多领域对于国家目标，太空探索，未来的航空运输需求以及国土安全性至关重要，除了与工程在全球范围内所面临的当前研究和挑战建立外，该计划还旨在增强和多样化，以通过为妇女和不足的成员提供妇女和不足的人的竞争力来增强和多样化的才华横溢的学生群体，以实现多样化的学生群体。参与的学生将参与研究，以增加对中级和多尺度物理学以及对这种现象进行建模的新方法的理解。教师和学生导师将与工程学院的工程教育与创新研究所紧密合作，以确保体验包括多学科设计，体验式学习，系统思维/工程和学生的专业发展的各个方面。此外，通过与工程学院的本科夏季研究赠款计划的合作，学生将成为较大的本科研究人员的一部分，该计划每年夏天都有超过60名学生。完成该计划的学生将通过专业和社交网站（链接，Facebook等）进行跟踪。参加后，REU学生将收到可以在REU招聘中使用的信息或可以自己发起的外展访问，并继续使这一访问权力保持开放。参与的学生将被要求展示他们的海报，并在其家庭机构中招募未来的REU学生，即练习每个人，伸手去教一位。