SUPERB (Summer Undergraduate Program of Engineering Research at Berkeley): REU Proposal in Bioengineering

9820375加州大学伯克利分校生物工程系和加州大学伯克利分校工程学院代表不足工程学生中心(CUE)请求REU(本科生研究经验)支持Superb(伯克利大学夏季本科生工程研究计划)在生物工程研究领域。我们要求在五年内每年资助九名学生。NSF的资金将得到校园、学院和行业的高度支持。招聘的目标将是代表不足的工科学生。工程学院和卓越的项目在本科生参与研究和多样化项目方面有着良好的记录。之所以选择生物工程的研究重点，是因为它越来越受到本科生的欢迎，并对学术界和工业界具有重要的战略意义。卓越为优秀的学生提供了通过与他们感兴趣的领域的教职员工和研究生合作进行研究项目来获得研究经验的机会。通过为学生提供有限或没有机会参与刺激研究和教职员工以及研究生指导的机会，卓越解决了影响他们进入研究生院决定的一个关键领域。每个学生都被仔细地与一名教职员工配对，这名教职员工是生物工程项目的成员，也是研究生导师。除了研究工作外，每周还会为优秀学生举行学术支持会议。这些会议提供关于研究生院招生和研究金、时间管理、研究方法、陈述和技术报告陈述以及其他相关主题的信息。该项目在为期一天的论坛上达到高潮，在论坛上，学生向他们的教职员工和研究生导师以及工程界的其他成员做口头陈述。每个学生都需要书面报告，并进行汇编以供分发。

9820375University of California-BerkeleyJames CaseyThe Department of Bioengineering and the Center for Underrepresented Engineering Students (CUES) in the College of Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley request REU (research Experiences for Undergraduates) support for SUPERB (Summer Undergraduate Program of Engineering Research at Berkeley) in the research area of Bioengineering. We are asking for support of nine students per year for five years. The NSF funding will be highly leveraged with campus, College, and industry support. Recruiting will be targeted to underrepresent engineering students. The College of Engineering and the SUPERB program have a strong record of undergraduate participation in research and diversity projects. The proposed research focus in Bioengineering was chosen, as it is has become increasingly popular with undergraduate students and has become strategically important to academia and industry. SUPERB offers outstanding students the opportunity to gain research experience by working with a faculty member and graduate student on a research project in their area of interest. By providing students who have had limited or no opportunity to participate in stimulating research and faculty and graduate student mentoring, SUPERB addresses a critical area that affects their decision to attend graduate school. Each student is carefully matched with a faculty member, who is a member of the Bioengineering program and a graduate student mentor. In addition to the research work, weekly academic support meetings are held for SUPERB students. These meetings provide information on graduate school admissions and fellowships, time management; research methodology; presentations and technical report presentations and other related topics. The program culminates in a daylong forum in which students make oral presentations to their faculty and graduate student mentors, and other members of the engineering community. Written reports are required by each student and compiled for dissemination.