Workshop to Enhance Minority Undergraduate Faculty Educationin Robotics and Machine Vision

该项目的中心目的是加强少数民族本科教师在机器人和机器视觉领域的教育。 为实现这一目的，为从历史上属于少数民族的大学挑选的计算机科学教员举办了关于这些专题的强化培训讲习班。 特别是，我们建议为从少数民族机构挑选的15名计算机科学教员举办为期两周的密集培训讲习班，并开展沿着活动。 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师的直接互动和RRL研究设备的广泛使用。 此外，鼓励参与者参加基于当前RRL研究工作的个人和团体研究项目。 研讨会的最后一天包括一个头脑风暴讨论如何在研讨会上学到的信息将转移到他们的课程。 讲习班的成果将发表在一份经过评审的期刊上。

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.