Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Formation of new MAST Center Site at the University of Arkansas

规划拨款：I/UCRC 用于在阿肯色大学建立新的 MAST 中心场地

• 批准号: 1266060
• 负责人: Ranil Wickramasinghe
• 金额: $ 1.43万
• 依托单位: University of Arkansas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-02-15 至 2014-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1266060&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; UCRC; Formation; new

1266060 University of Arkansas; Ranil Wickramasinghe The proposed site, the University of Arkansas Fayetteville, requests funding for a planning meeting to establish a partner site of the Membrane Science, Engineering & Technology (MAST) Center that is currently comprised of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (lead institution) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, as a research partner. The addition of the University of Arkansas site to the current MAST Center will bring new areas of expertise and complement existing expertise. A particular focus of the new site will be the application of membrane based separations for sustainability and in the manufacture of food and beverages. The presence of strong departments in food science and poultry science at the University of Arkansas will enable the MAST Center to grow its research program in these new areas. In addition to these new areas, the faculty at the University of Arkansas has expertise that complements existing strength in the core areas of membrane formation, modification, characterization and performance. Faculty members from across the University of Arkansas have been identified who would have strong potential interest in participating as MAST Center researchers. Establishing the proposed MAST site would lead to the education and training of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows for the membrane and related industries. The director of the Arkansas MAST Center site will work with the Arkansas Research Alliance to introduce the MAST Center to local industry. Numerous Arkansas based companies have been identified that could directly benefit from graduate students and postdoctoral researcher who have been trained in membrane science and technology. Further industry mentorship of research projects at the proposed site provides a unique opportunity for graduate students to hone their communications skills and learn to work effectively in teams in addition to the technical skills required by the research projects. The site director plans to work with existing programs on campus to attract students from underrepresented groups in science and engineering to the MAST Center; and, advances in the applications of membrane separation technologies will be incorporated in the undergraduate courses in separations, reactor design and chemical engineering laboratories.

1266060 阿肯色大学； Ranil Wickramasinghe 拟建地点阿肯色大学费耶特维尔分校请求资助一次规划会议，以建立膜科学、工程与技术 (MAST) 中心的合作伙伴地点，该中心目前由新泽西理工学院（牵头机构）组成和科罗拉多大学博尔德分校作为研究合作伙伴。将阿肯色大学网站添加到当前的 MAST 中心将带来新的专业领域并补充现有的专业知识。新工厂的一个特别重点将是基于膜的分离在可持续发展以及食品和饮料制造中的应用。阿肯色大学食品科学和家禽科学领域强大的院系将使 MAST 中心能够在这些新领域发展其研究项目。除了这些新领域之外，阿肯色大学的教师还拥有专业知识，可以补充膜形成、改性、表征和性能等核心领域的现有优势。来自阿肯色大学各地的教职人员已确定对作为 MAST 中心研究人员参与有浓厚的潜在兴趣。建立拟议的 MAST 基地将为膜及相关行业的研究生和博士后研究员提供教育和培训。阿肯色州 MAST 中心主任将与阿肯色州研究联盟合作，向当地行业介绍 MAST 中心。已确定许多阿肯色州公司可以直接受益于接受过膜科学和技术培训的研究生和博士后研究员。拟建地点对研究项目的进一步行业指导为研究生提供了独特的机会，除了研究项目所需的技术技能之外，还可以磨练他们的沟通技巧并学习如何在团队中有效工作。该中心主任计划与校园现有项目合作，吸引来自科学和工程领域代表性不足群体的学生来到 MAST 中心；并且，膜分离技术应用的进展将被纳入分离、反应器设计和化学工程实验室的本科课程中。