REU Site: Retaining Engineers through Research Entrepreneurship and Advanced Materials Training (RETREAT)

REU 网站：通过研究创业和先进材料培训留住工程师 (RETREAT)

• 批准号: 1950500
• 负责人: Okenwa Okoli
• 金额: $ 45.38万
• 依托单位: Florida State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1950500&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Retaining; Engineers; through

This REU Site: Retaining Engineers through Research Entrepreneurship and Advanced Materials Training (RETREAT)renewal at Florida State University (FSU) will integrate a research collaboration portal for participants in order to gain fundamental insights about transformational student success pathways into joint material science and entrepreneurial pursuits. This new direction builds upon our established research training model based on past successes with research education to help students understand fundamental science developments connected with finding practical solution for industry needs. The REU program is a 10-week summer program that provides research opportunities for 10 students to participate each year. The primary goal of the program is to increase the number of engineering students to continue post-baccalaureate and eventually enter into engineering careers in industry or postgraduate training in engineering research, and engage the students in activities that focus on bridging the gap between engineering innovations and their market potential. This will be achieved through organized coursework or seminars on Entrepreneurship delivered by local experts, arranged by FSU’s Entrepreneurs-in-Residence and the Jim Moran Institute at the FSU Business School. The High-Performance Materials Institute (HPMI) will host the REU program through a combination of lab-based research and seminars. Participating students will be actively engaged in cutting-edge research under the direct supervision of dedicated graduate students, postdocs and faculty mentors. The research component will focus on innovative developmental work in multiscale-multifunctional materials. This hands-on experience allows participants the opportunity to experience their STEM classroom learning being manifested in the labs.The advent of Generation IV composites, which are multiscale, multifunctional, inherently sensing, morphing, etc. materials, has led to the need for recruiting more versatile, innovative, quick, and independent thinking, hands-on, researchers to maintain the U.S. technological lead. The goal is to impact students through fundamental research endeavors that focus on innovative developmental work in multiscale-multifunctional materials. The participating students will be matched with mentors and research projects with a focus on the synthesis and processing of multifunctional materials for device application. Weekly entrepreneurial component seminars on Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (TEC) provided through the Jim Moran Institute (JMI) of Global Entrepreneurship in the College of Business at FSU will enhance the understanding of the relevance of research innovations to the business environment. This will culminate with the EngiPreneur Competition, where students will present their strategies for bringing their research to the marketplace. Students will travel to the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) at Eglin AFB, where they will attend seminars on the role of engineered materials in the nation’s defense. They will also participate in tours of several local facilities, including the NSF sponsored National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Tallahassee-based engineering companies.This site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.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.

REU 网站：佛罗里达州立大学 (FSU) 通过研究创业和先进材料培训 (RETREAT) 续订留住工程师，将为参与者整合一个研究合作门户，以便获得有关学生在联合材料科学和创业追求方面取得成功的转型之路的基本见解这一新方向建立在我们基于过去成功的研究教育基础上的研究培训模型的基础上，旨在帮助学生了解与寻找满足行业需求的实际解决方案相关的基础科学发展。REU 项目是一个为期 10 周的夏季项目。每年为 10 名学生提供参与研究的机会，该计划的主要目标是增加工程专业学生的数量，以继续完成学士学位后并最终进入工业界的工程职业或工程研究的研究生培训，并让学生参与各种活动。重点是缩小工程创新与其市场潜力之间的差距，这将通过由佛罗里达州立大学驻场企业家和吉姆安排的当地专家举办的有组织的创业课程或研讨会来实现。 FSU 商学院莫兰研究所 (HPMI) 将通过实验室研究和研讨会的方式主办 REU 项目，参与的学生将在专门人员的直接监督下积极参与前沿研究。研究部分将侧重于多尺度多功能材料的创新开发工作，让参与者有机会体验在实验室中体现的 STEM 课堂学习。复合材料是多尺度、多功能、固有传感、变形等材料，导致需要招募更多多才多艺、创新、快速、独立思考、动手实践的研究人员，以保持美国的技术领先地位。通过专注于多尺度多功能材料的创新开发工作的基础研究工作来影响学生，参与的学生将与导师和研究项目相匹配，重点是用于设备应用的多功能材料的合成和加工。技术佛罗里达州立大学商学院吉姆·莫兰全球创业研究所 (JMI) 提供的创业和商业化 (TEC) 将增强对研究创新与商业环境的相关性的理解，这将在企业家竞赛中达到高潮。将展示他们将研究成果推向市场的策略。学生们将前往埃格林空军基地的空军研究实验室 (AFRL)，参加有关工程材料在航空航天领域的作用的研讨会。他们还将参加对多个当地设施的参观，包括 NSF 资助的国家高磁场实验室和位于塔拉哈西的工程公司。该网站由国防部与 NSF REU 计划合作提供支持。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，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。

项目成果

A Review on the Out-of-Autoclave Process for Composite Manufacturing

• DOI: 10.3390/jcs6060172
• 发表时间: 2022-06-13
• 期刊: Journal of Composites Science
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Okunzuwa Austine Ekuase;N. Anjum;V. Eze;O. Okoli
• 通讯作者: O. Okoli

Impact sensing and localization in composites structures with embedded mechanoluminescence-perovskite sensors

具有嵌入式机械发光-钙钛矿传感器的复合材料结构中的冲击传感和定位

• DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2022.113843
• 发表时间: 2022-10
• 期刊: Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
• 作者: Carani, Lucas Braga;Martin, Terrencia Deniqua;Eze, Vincent Obiozo;Okoli, Okenwa Izeji
• 通讯作者: Okoli, Okenwa Izeji

Performance Analysis of Embedded Mechanoluminescence-Perovskite Self-Powered Pressure Sensor for Structural Health Monitoring

用于结构健康监测的嵌入式机械致发光-钙钛矿自供电压力传感器的性能分析

• DOI: 10.3390/jcs4040190
• 发表时间: 2020-12-01
• 期刊: Journal of Composites Science
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Lucas Braga Carani;V. Eze;Chetanna Iwuagwu;O. Okoli
• 通讯作者: O. Okoli

Manufacturing of stereolithographic 3D printed boron nitride nanotube-reinforced ceramic composites with improved thermal and mechanical performance

制造具有改进的热性能和机械性能的立体光刻 3D 打印氮化硼纳米管增强陶瓷复合材料

• DOI: 10.1088/2631-6331/acb12a
• 发表时间: 2023-01-06
• 期刊: Functional Composites and Structures
• 影响因子: 2.8
• 作者: M. Tank;Ana De Leon;Wentao Huang;Mitesh Patadia;Joshua Degraff;R. Sweat
• 通讯作者: R. Sweat

An efficient way of harvesting mechanoluminescent light: Flexible pressure sensor application

收集机械发光的有效方法：灵活的压力传感器应用

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2023.119895
• 发表时间: 2024-09-14
• 期刊: Journal of Luminescence
• 影响因子: 3.6
• 作者: M. A. Shohag;G. Adams;V. Eze;Lucas Braga Carani;T. Ichite;Okenwa Okoli
• 通讯作者: Okenwa Okoli