REU Site: Particle-based Functional Materials for Energy, Sustainability, and Biomedicine

REU 网站：用于能源、可持续发展和生物医学的颗粒功能材料

• 批准号: 2050944
• 负责人: Joseph McCarthy
• 金额: $ 40.5万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050944&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Particle; based; Functional

Today's advances don't happen in isolation, but instead occur at the intersections of two or more technologies. This is especially true in biomedicine, sustainability, and energy. The focus of this three-year REU Site: Particle-based Functional Materials for Energy, Sustainability, and Biomedicine, at the University of Pittsburgh, is comprised of computational and experimental studies of materials that fulfill a specific function either because of their particulate nature or due to the influence of particles on structure. Such systems include: material self-healing, controlled delivery of therapeutics, “smart” catalysis, and particle separations, to name a few. This REU is based on the premise that the future engineer will need to seamlessly traverse the boundary between seemingly disparate technology areas. Toward that end the PFM-REU program explicitly focuses on enhancing students’ knowledge integration skills while building their base of knowledge in a specific area and training them to engage in product innovation. The program aims to model a holistic admissions process that weighs non-academic factors that have been suggested as predictive of student success. By doing so, the program aims to expand the reach and impact of the REU Site and also inform all holistic admissions processes at Pittsburgh.The goals of this 10 week summer program are to 1) admit a diverse and talented pool of 10 undergraduate researchers each year via holistic admissions techniques; 2) train these students to perform (increasingly independent) research over the course of their 10 week experience; 3) increase students’ ability to integrate knowledge within and across the focus area via the research-internship pairing and workshop series; and 4) prepare the students to engage in innovative product design. This is accomplished by combining the traditional research of an REU site with a tailored workshop series, a translation exercise, and an innovating "cross-training" internship.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.

今天的进步并非孤立地发生，而是出现在两种或多个技术的交集。在生物医学，可持续性和能源中尤其如此。这个为期三年的REU站点的重点是匹兹堡大学的能量，可持续性和生物医学的基于粒子的功能材料，由计算和实验研究组成，这些材料的计算和实验研究是由于其颗粒性质或颗粒对结构的影响而符合特定功能的材料。这样的系统包括：材料自我修复，理论的受控传递，“智能”催化和粒子分离，仅举几例。此REU是基于以下前提：未来工程师将需要无缝地穿越看似不同的技术领域之间的边界。为此，PFM-REU计划明确着重于增强学生的知识整合技能，同时在特定领域建立知识基础，并培训他们从事产品创新。该计划旨在对整体入院过程进行建模，该过程加权非学术因素，这些因素被认为可以预测学生的成功。通过这样做，该计划旨在扩大REU网站的影响力和影响，并在匹兹堡通知所有整体录取过程。这个10周夏季计划的目标是1）承认每年通过全面招生技术的10个本科生的多样化和才华横溢的池； 2）培训这些学生在10周的经验中进行（日益独立）的研究； 3）提高学生通过研究与领域内部和整个重点领域的知识的能力。 4）为学生准备创新的产品设计。这是通过将REU网站的传统研究与量身定制的研讨会系列，翻译练习以及创新的“交叉训练”实习结合起来来完成的。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准来评估通过评估而被认为是珍贵的。