Supporting Student Research at the NanoFlorida 2018 Conference

在 NanoFlorida 2018 会议上支持学生研究

• 批准号: 1833221
• 负责人: Kurt Winkelmann
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Florida Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-06-01 至 2020-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833221&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; Student; Research; NanoFlorida; 2018

Supporting Student Research at the NanoFlorida 2018 ConferenceFlorida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech) will host the 11th annual NanoFlorida Research Conference on October 5-7, 2018. NanoFlorida is a unique event with a long, successful tradition of student researchers sharing their discoveries in nanotechnology. The NanoFlorida conference series is the only state-wide nanotechnology conference in which graduate and undergraduate students can present their research to their peers and other faculty at neighboring schools, and to industry scientists and engineers. Students with an interest in nanotechnology from all colleges and universities in Florida attend in order to learn more about this important topic, meet students at other schools, and network with representatives from graduate schools and industry employers. The NanoFlorida 2018 Research Conference organizers will attract more students to attend the conference in the following ways: (1) lower registration costs, (2) add symposia that highlight important new areas of nanotechnology research, and (3) provide more ways for students to disseminate their research. Perhaps the most important benefit to NanoFlorida student attendees is that they can meet researchers from other schools and from industry, forming professional relationships that provide long-term benefits to their STEM careers. The participation goal for NanoFlorida 2018 is to increase attendance at NanoFlorida 2018 to 200 students. Funding for this conference proposal will allow organizers to reimburse to students the cost of their registration fees. Florida?s research universities are always well-represented at NanoFlorida conferences. In order to increase the diversity of attendees, the conference organizers will advertise the conference to faculty at institutions that do not grant PhDs in STEM disciplines. Among these schools are Florida A&M and Bethune Cookman University, both HBCUs, and schools in the Florida state college system that have an enrollment of 60% women. The nanotechnology education symposium will draw an audience that includes faculty teaching nanotechnology, thereby imparting knowledge about effective teaching practices to those who can immediately use that knowledge in their own classrooms to benefit students. Program tracks include nanomedicine, nanomaterials and devices, and applications of nanotechnology in energy and the environment, as well as new symposia for research in nanotechnology education, nanotechnology applications in agriculture, and nanotechnology applications in space exploration. NanoFlorida conferences allow for graduate and undergraduate students to present their research in a low-stress, supportive environment and, for the first time, NanoFlorida 2018 organizers will publish students? extended abstracts of their presentations in conference proceedings. In addition, the organizers are arranging special issues of peer-reviewed science and engineering journals to publish nanotechnology research papers authored by students and their faculty mentors. Post-conference surveys and the publication of presenters? research will serve as a measure of the success of the NanoFlorida 2018 Research Conference.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.

在 NanoFlorida 2018 会议上支持学生研究佛罗里达理工学院 (Florida Tech) 将于 2018 年 10 月 5 日至 7 日主办第 11 届年度 NanoFlorida 研究会议。 NanoFlorida 是一项独特的活动，具有学生研究人员分享纳米技术发现的悠久而成功的传统。纳米佛罗里达会议系列是唯一的全州纳米技术会议，研究生和本科生可以向同行和邻近学校的其他教师以及行业科学家和工程师展示他们的研究成果。来自佛罗里达州所有学院和大学对纳米技术感兴趣的学生参加，以便更多地了解这一重要主题，与其他学校的学生见面，并与研究生院和行业雇主的代表建立联系。 NanoFlorida 2018 研究会议组织者将通过以下方式吸引更多学生参加会议：(1) 降低注册成本，(2) 增加研讨会，突出纳米技术研究的重要新领域，(3) 为学生提供更多方式传播他们的研究成果。也许对 NanoFlorida 学生参加者来说最重要的好处是，他们可以结识来自其他学校和行业的研究人员，形成专业关系，为他们的 STEM 职业生涯带来长期利益。 NanoFlorida 2018 的参与目标是将 NanoFlorida 2018 的参加人数增加到 200 名学生。本次会议提案的资金将使组织者能够向学生报销注册费。佛罗里达州的研究型大学在纳米佛罗里达会议上总是有很好的代表。为了增加与会者的多样性，会议组织者将向不授予 STEM 学科博士学位的机构的教师宣传会议。这些学校包括佛罗里达农工大学 (Florida A&M) 和白求恩库克曼大学 (Bethune Cookman University)（均为 HBCU），以及佛罗里达州立大学系统内的学校，其中 60% 是女性入学。纳米技术教育研讨会将吸引包括教授纳米技术的教师在内的观众，从而向那些能够立即在自己的课堂上使用这些知识造福学生的人传授有效教学实践的知识。项目轨道包括纳米医学、纳米材料和设备、纳米技术在能源和环境中的应用，以及纳米技术教育研究、纳米技术在农业中的应用以及纳米技术在太空探索中的应用的新研讨会。 NanoFlorida 会议允许研究生和本科生在低压力、支持性的环境中展示他们的研究成果，并且 NanoFlorida 2018 组织者将首次发布学生？他们在会议记录中的演讲的扩展摘要。此外，组织者还安排同行评审的科学和工程期刊特刊，发表由学生及其导师撰写的纳米技术研究论文。会后调查和演讲者的出版物？研究将作为 NanoFlorida 2018 研究会议成功的衡量标准。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。