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College of
Polymer Science & Polymer Engineering
REU
- Research
Experience for
Undergraduates in Polymer
Science and Polymer Engineering
Summer 2008 - Internship Program
PROGRAM
DATES:
MAY 19 - AUGUST 8, 2008
OVERVIEW:
The College of Polymer
Science and Polymer Engineering offers a competitive summer research
experience for undergraduate (REU) students. Students will participate
in a 12-week summer internship to investigate a fundamental question
within the broad field of polymer science, involving either theory,
simulations, and modeling of polymer properties, polymer synthesis and
kinetics, polymer engineering or physical properties of polymers. Each
week, all interns participate in a career development activity and a
seminar series, and meet on Fridays to discuss their research progress
and/or visit a local/regional company. The summer will culminate with
an oral or poster presentation of each intern's research results at the
Northeast Ohio NSF-REU Undergraduate Research Conference.
Stipends for Summer 2008 (12 weeks) are $6,000. The internships are
sponsored by the National Science Foundation, with additional
internships sponsored by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
The College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering is located in the
Goodyear Polymer Center and the Polymer Engineering Academic Center.
The college has 76 research laboratories with state-of-the art research
instrumentation in NMR spectroscopy, GPC, thermal analysis, rheooptics,
x-ray diffraction, polymer processing and electron and other
microscopies.
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