REU Site in Interdisciplinary Materials Research

REU 跨学科材料研究网站

• 批准号: 2150489
• 负责人: Boyd Goodson
• 金额: $ 42.15万
• 依托单位: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150489&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Interdisciplinary; Materials; Research

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION The REU Site at Southern Illinois University Carbondale provides research opportunities for an average of 14 undergraduates per year (including 2 supported internally) for a 9 week period each summer. Students are involved in interdisciplinary projects in the broadly defined area of materials research. Inclusion of faculty mentors from various disciplines (Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Biology, and the Materials Technology Center) enables the REU students to develop skills needed to excel in both academic and industrial research environments, where interdisciplinary teams are standard and researchers must communicate effectively across disciplines. Students are also required to think about the application of their research to new technologies and the manufacturing of new devices, and have opportunities to present their results to a diverse audience. The Site recruits primarily from 2-/4-year institutions residing in neighboring states or the Mississippi Delta region, as well as those with traditionally high enrollment of students from underrepresented groups. Students participating in this Site learn to network with other scientists and engineers through various social activities including weekly lunches with faculty mentors and weekend trips to cultural, industrial, and recreational locations. Primary goals of the site include: (1) creating a positive image of science and engineering as a career choice: students will leave the program with a greater sense of the trials, tribulations, and rewards that await them; (2) providing a nurturing environment and instilling a sense of confidence in the art of discussing and practicing science; (3) improving the participants’ oral and written communication skills; (4) teaching of basic research tools, including literature searches and the operation of modern instrumentation; (5) fostering a collaborative teamwork approach to research; and (6) increasing the number of domestic students, especially those from underrepresented groups, who choose to pursue STEM careers. A detailed assessment plan is followed to enable evaluation of efforts. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTIONThe mentored research projects associated with this Site are designed to be excellent training grounds for working in materials and related fields. Students are exposed to a variety of transformative projects at the forefront of materials science and engineering, such as: studies related to the synthesis of advanced functional materials (metal organic frameworks, optically active inorganic crystals, 2D heterostructures, thin films, nanocomposites, spin-polarized films; nanoscale/microscale heterogeneous catalysts, etc.); materials characterization (via electron microscopies, solid- and solution-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, low-temperature electronic, optical, magnetic transport, UV/Vis, infrared (IR), 2D-IR, and Raman spectroscopies, etc.); theoretical/computational studies (wherein students learn how to study materials via density functional theory (DFT) calculations, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, Data driven Machine Learning (ML) etc.); and materials applications varying from energy storage and photovoltaics, to biosensors and spintronics devices.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.

非技术描述Carbondale南部的REU网站为每年平均有14名本科生（包括内部支持2名）提供研究机会，每年夏天为期9周。学生参与材料研究广泛定义领域的跨学科项目。包括来自各个学科（化学，物理，工程，生物学和材料技术中心）的教师导师，使REU学生能够发展在学术和工业研究环境中脱颖而出所需的技能，在学术和工业研究环境中，跨学科团队是标准的，研究人员必须在学科跨学科上进行有效的交流。还要求学生考虑将他们的研究应用于新技术和新设备的制造，并有机会向潜水员的受众提供结果。该网站报告了居住在邻国或密西西比三角洲地区的2年/4年机构，以及传统上代表性不足的学生入学率较高的机构。参加该网站的学生通过各种社交活动学习与其他科学家和工程师建立联系，包括每周与教师导师的午餐以及周末旅行，前往文化，工业和娱乐地点。该网站的主要目标包括：（1）创建科学和工程学的积极形象作为职业选择：学生将对等待它们的试验，磨难和奖励更加了解； （2）提供护士环境，并灌输对讨论和实践科学的艺术的信心； （3）提高参与者的口头和书面沟通技巧； （4）基础研究工具的教学，包括文献搜索和现代仪器的运作； （5）促进协作团队合作方法进行研究； （6）增加了选择从事STEM职业的家庭学生的数量，尤其是来自代表性不足的群体的学生人数。遵循详细的评估计划，以实现努力评估。技术描述与本网站相关的指导研究项目旨在是在材料和相关领域工作的良好培训场所。学生接触到材料科学和工程领域的各种变革性项目，例如：与先进功能材料合成有关的研究（金属有机框架，光学活跃的无机晶体，2D异质结构，薄膜，纳米成分，纳米复合物，旋转层化膜；纳尼斯基/微观层；材料表征（通过电子显微镜，固体和溶液状态核磁共振（NMR）光谱，质谱法，低温电子，光学，磁性传输，紫外线/VIS，IRRARED（IR），2D-IR和RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIES等）;理论/计算研究（其中学生学习如何通过密度功能理论（DFT）计算，分子动力学（MD）模拟，数据驱动机器学习（ML）等研究材料；材料应用程序从能源存储和光伏，生物传感器和SpinTronics设备的不同之处不等。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，通过评估诚实地表示支持。