REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experience for undergraduates interested in Materials Science and Engineering

REU 网站：为对材料科学与工程感兴趣的本科生提供跨学科研究体验

• 批准号: 1460943
• 负责人: Ranji Vaidyanathan
• 金额: $ 40.52万
• 依托单位: Oklahoma State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1460943&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Interdisciplinary; Research; Experience

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the Helmerich Research Center at Oklahoma State University (OSU) offers research experiences in materials science and engineering research to a diverse group of talented students over a period of three years. The student research projects focus on materials processing, testing and characterization for interdisciplinary applications in energy storage, energy generation, biomaterials, combustion, and aerospace. In addition, students are introduced to entrepreneurship and commercialization to transition research from the lab-scale to the real world, thus enhancing U.S. competitiveness. Students are recruited from Oklahoma colleges and universities that have limited STEM research facilities and large populations of students underrepresented in STEM. The program is leveraging existing OSU's partnerships with Tulsa Community College, which is a feeder program for Native American students transferring to undergraduate engineering programs at OSU and the Oklahoma Louis Stoke Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) to identify a diverse pool of student applicants. The REU Site offers opportunities to undergraduate students to engage in in-depth research experiences in several areas of advanced manufacturing in aerospace, energy and biomaterials. During the 9-week experience, students are mentored by experienced faculty to conduct materials engineering and science research projects in: 3-D printing and direct digital manufacturing, materials processing, and materials testing and characterization. The students are also: learning about cutting-edge materials characterization methods (through web-based participation in the two-day national workshop on Advanced Materials Characterization offered by the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); exposed to entrepreneurial routes to commercializing research (in collaboration with the Riata Center of Entrepreneurship); participating in a professional development program that includes training in communications skills and graduate school preparation and career information sessions; presenting their research results at a research symposium at the end of the summer; and being provided with opportunities to interact with local industry partners (in Tulsa, OK) that are engaged in materials research. This REU Site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.

俄克拉荷马州立大学Helmerich研究中心（OSU）的本科生（REU）网站的研究经验为材料科学和工程研究方面的研究经验为三年来的一群才华横溢的学生。学生研究项目的重点是材料处理，测试和表征，用于存储，能源发电，生物材料，燃烧和航空航天中的跨学科应用。 此外，还将学生介绍了从实验室规模到现实世界的过渡研究，从而提高了美国的竞争力，从而提高了美国的竞争力。 从俄克拉荷马州的学院和大学招募学生，这些学院和大学的STEM研究设施有限，大量学生人数不足。该计划正在利用OSU与塔尔萨社区学院的合作伙伴关系，该学院是一项供您的喂食者计划，适用于转移到OSU的本科工程课程和俄克拉荷马州路易斯·斯托克·斯托克（Oklahoma Louis Stoke）少数民族参与（LSAMP）（LSAMP）的饲养计划，以识别多样的学生申请人。 REU网站为本科生提供了机会，可以在航空航天，能源和生物材料的高级制造业中进行深入的研究经验。 在为期9周的经验中，经验丰富的教师指导了学生，以进行材料工程和科学研究项目：3-D打印和直接数字制造，材料处理以及材料测试和表征。学生们也是：学习尖端材料表征方法（通过基于网络的参与伊利诺伊大学Urbana-Champaign的材料研究实验室提供的为期两天的国家高级材料表征的研讨会）；暴露于商业化研究的企业家途径（与Riata企业家中心合作）；参加一项专业发展计划，其中包括沟通技巧和研究生院准备和职业信息会议的培训；在夏季结束时，在研究研讨会上介绍他们的研究结果；并有机会与从事材料研究的当地行业合作伙伴互动。此REU网站由国防部与NSF REU计划合作支持。