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Brown bag lunches and student partners

We will organize weekly brown bag lunches to develop student/faculty interaction beyond the daily research interactions and to foster student/student communication. These lunches will give students a chance to informally discuss their research progress and problems. The goal of these lunch meetings will be for the students to share their own personal experiences and to learn from each other's successes and failures.

Senior chemical engineering undergraduates, the IGERT undergraduate students, and students from the Science and Engineering Scholars (SES) Program will be invited to attend these lunches and to provide their unique perspective on research and the very different types of challenges presented by a research project.

Presentation and communication skills workshop

In addition to the research skills that the students will learn as part of their summer projects, we feel that is important to understand learn how to present the results of their projects in a coherent and efficient manner. Thus, we have enlisted the aid of the Department of Communication at the University of Delaware, which will give a workshop at the beginning of each summer to advise students of the “do’s and don’ts” in the delivery of scientific presentations.

Field trips

The University of Delaware is located in the heart of the chemical industry. Our Department has strong links to the local and regional industry, and many of the NSF--REU students will be working on research projects that have direct industrial support or specific industrial collaboration. We will offer site visits to several companies. The program will cover several facets of energy related research. We are planning three site visits during the summer.

Student Living and Social Activities

The REU students will be housed in the University of Delaware student dormitories. The dorms are within walking distance of the Chemical Engineering Department. The students will be living in the same buildings as the SES students who live on campus and perform undergraduate research over the summer.

Social activities

The Science and Engineering Scholars program offers a variety of social activities, which will also be available to the NSF-REU participants. These include informal picnics to meet other students and discussion groups to help students through the “ups and downs” of research. The students in the SES program also organize a variety of weekend trips to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and the Delaware shores. These optional trips provide an outstanding opportunity for out-of-town students to learn more about the Mid-Atlantic U.S.