Workshop to Enhance Minority Undergraduate Faculty Educationin Robotics and Machine Vision

该项目的中心目的是加强在机器人学和机器视觉领域的少数民族本科教师教育。这一目的是通过为从历史上少数族裔大学挑选出来的计算机科学教员举办关于这些主题的强化培训研讨会来实现的。特别是，我们建议为从少数族裔院校挑选出来的15名计算机科学教员举办为期两周的强化培训讲习班，并开展一些后续活动。研讨会的参与者将接触到计算机视觉和机器人技术的最新主题。这些活动包括机器人研究实验室教职员工的直接互动和广泛使用RRL的研究设备。此外，还鼓励参与者参与基于当前RRL研究成果的个人和团体研究项目。研讨会的最后一天包括一场集思广益的讨论，讨论如何将研讨会中学到的信息转化为他们的课程。研讨会的结果将发表在一份经过推荐的期刊上。

The central purpose of this project is to enhance minority undergraduate faculty education in the areas of robotics and machine vision. This purpose is achieved by conducting an intensive training workshop on these topics for computer science faculty members selected from historically minority universities. In particular, we propose to conduct an intensive, two-week long training workshop, along with certain follow-up activities, for 15 computer science faculty members selected from minority institutions. Workshop participants are exposed to up-to-date topics in computer vision and robotics. The activities include direct interaction by Robotics Research Laboratory's faculty and extensive use of the RRL's research equipment. Also, participants are encouraged to take part in individual and group research projects based on current RRL research efforts. The final day of the workshop includes a brainstorming discussion of how the information learned in the workshop will be transferred into their curriculum. The results of the workshop will be published in a refereed journal.