1 / 2

Between May 24 and August 9, 2012, 177 undergraduate students

SURFing the Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) - a NIST/NSF REU Partnership for Materials Science Terrell A. Vanderah, National Institute of Standards and Technology, DMR 1060416. Between May 24 and August 9, 2012, 177 undergraduate students

doria
Download Presentation

Between May 24 and August 9, 2012, 177 undergraduate students

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. SURFing the Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) - aNIST/NSF REU Partnership for Materials ScienceTerrell A. Vanderah, National Institute of Standards and Technology, DMR 1060416 Between May 24 and August 9, 2012, 177 undergraduate students from 77 different U.S. colleges and universities worked on projects with world-leading experts in all laboratories of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, located in Gaithersburg, MD. Out of this group were 40 students from 24 different universities who participated in the Materials Science part of the Material Measurement Laboratory (MML)/NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program partially supported by the NSF working on ceramic, metallic, polymeric, and biological materials.

  2. SURFing the Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) – a NIST/NSF REU Partnership for Materials ScienceTerrell A. Vanderah, National Institute of Standards and Technology, DMR 1060416 In addition to living together and visiting each others’ laboratories, these 177 students in all disciplines learned about other fields of science and presentation skills through a special weekly seminar and through staff interactions. Oral presentations at the conclusion of the summer to the NIST management and technical staff showed during the summer the students gained proficiency in areas as diverse as implant materials and miscellar gells, nanomechanical properties, spintronics, magnetic nanoparticles, non-linear coatings, carbon nanotubes, triple axis diffractometry, x-ray scattering, neutron reflectivity and radiography, and combinatorial research. Most plan to pursue graduate education afterwards.

More Related