REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experiences in Advanced Air Mobility for Undergraduates (IREAAMU)

REU 网站：本科生先进空中交通跨学科研究经验 (IREAAMU)

• 批准号: 2244052
• 负责人: Zhenbo Wang
• 金额: $ 40.45万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2244052&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Interdisciplinary; Research; Experiences

This is a three-year new proposal for an REU Site titled, "REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experiences in Advanced Air Mobility for Undergraduates (IREAAMU)", hosted by the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Ten students each year will conduct research related to air mobility related projects and technologies. The project will seek to increase participation of female, underrepresented minorities, and people with disabilities in the sector. Climate change, overpopulation, and traffic congestion are pressing issues that pose unprecedented societal challenges. Safe, efficient, equitable, and sustainable transportation systems are promising to alleviate these challenges and issues. Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) has emerged as a disruptive technology that offers a way to create such transportation systems by enabling transformative paradigms for advanced air transportation such as novel passenger or cargo-carrying services in urban, suburban, and rural areas. AAM research does not simply refer to new aircraft designs such as the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) technology and does not only focus on engineering. Human and societal factors are also critical to AAM. Research in transportation management and public policies can also be a form of AAM research. AAM research is interdisciplinary and requires theoretical development, analytical modeling, integrative simulation, experimental tests, and real-world implementation. This 10-week summer REU program provide a welcoming environment for students to work closely with a diverse group of AAM experts. The goal is to train the next-generation AAM experts by investigating novel technologies, infrastructures, and polices needed for enabling safe, efficient, equitable, and sustainable transportation systems.This is a three-year new proposal for an REU Site titled, "REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experiences in Advanced Air Mobility for Undergraduates (IREAAMU)", hosted by the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Ten students each year will conduct research related to air mobility related projects and technologies. The project will seek to increase participation of female, underrepresented minorities, and people with disabilities in the sector. Through a targeted recruiting strategy, this REU site will bolster the participation of under-represented minorities in undergraduate research, particularly in the AAM area. Leveraging UTK’s existing relationships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the Tennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, and the Entry Point! program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, ten students each summer from colleges and universities with limited research opportunities will be recruited. The proposed research projects, along with the professional development activities and networking opportunities with international students recruited and supported by partner universities from Hong Kong, provides students with exciting and engaging experiences in the interdisciplinary AAM field. Participants will work closely with a demographically diverse, interdisciplinary group of faculty mentors and their research teams on projects related to various aspects of AAM. The REU students will be exposed to the state-of-the-art AAM technologies, participate in the process of designing, modeling, planning, and operating new AAM concepts, and visit labs and companies to explore how AAM can enable safe, efficient, equitable, and sustainable transportation systems.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.

这是一项为期三年的 REU 站点新提案，题为“REU 站点：本科生高级空中交通跨学科研究经验 (IREAAMU)”，由田纳西州诺克斯维尔大学主办，每年有 10 名学生将进行与空气相关的研究。该项目将寻求增加女性、代表性不足的少数群体和残疾人在该领域的参与。气候变化、人口过剩和交通拥堵是带来前所未有的社会挑战的紧迫问题。和可持续运输系统有望缓解这些挑战和问题，先进空中交通（AAM）已成为一种颠覆性技术，它通过为先进航空运输（例如新型客运或货运服务）提供变革性范例，提供了一种创建此类运输系统的方法。在城市、郊区和农村地区，AAM 研究不仅仅涉及电动垂直起降 (eVTOL) 技术等新型飞机设计，也不仅仅关注工程。交通管理与公共政策研究也可以是 AAM 研究的一种形式。AAM 研究是跨学科的，需要理论发展、分析建模、综合模拟、实验测试和实际实施。这个为期 10 周的夏季 REU 项目为学生提供了一个密切合作的环境。多元化的 AAM 专家小组的目标是通过研究实现安全、高效、公平和可持续的交通系统所需的新技术、基础设施和政策来培训下一代 AAM 专家。这是一项为期三年的新提案。 REU 站点题为“REU 网站：本科生先进空中交通跨学科研究经验 (IREAAMU)”的项目由田纳西州诺克斯维尔大学主办，每年有 10 名学生将开展与空中交通相关项目和技术相关的研究。通过有针对性的招聘策略，该 REU 网站将促进女性、代表性不足的少数群体和残疾人参与本科研究，特别是利用 UTK 的现有领域。通过与历史上黑人学院和大学、田纳西州路易斯斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟以及美国科学促进会的入口点计划的合作，每年夏天将招募十名来自研究机会有限的学院和大学的学生。研究项目以及由香港合作大学招募和支持的国际学生的专业发展活动和交流机会，为学生提供跨学科 AAM 领域令人兴奋和引人入胜的体验，参与者将与人口多元化的跨学科团队密切合作。学院REU 学生将接触到最先进的 AAM 技术，参与设计、建模、规划和操作新 AAM 概念的过程。参观实验室和公司，探索 AAM 如何实现安全、高效、公平和可持续的运输系统。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。