Research Experience for Undergraduates in Geo-Environmental Systems

9912319 kolar俄克拉荷马大学工程与环境科学学院（CEES）的教师建立了一个为期8周的夏季REU网站，以地球环境工程和科学学科为中心。我们的目标是每年让12名学生沉浸在先进的研究课题中，为他们提供跨越科学探究所有主要步骤的有意义的项目：提出问题，提出假设，进行文献综述，建立实验矩阵，分析和综合结果，并准备最终报告（口头和书面）。活动超出了实验室或现场，REU学生是教师/研究生研究小组的成员，包括定向研讨会，危险废物和安全培训，致力于研究问题的周五午餐，实践演示和道德，实地考察研究设施和社会功能。这个REU网站的愿景是创造一个有吸引力的氛围，激励和准备本科生在地球环境工程和科学的关键领域攻读高级学位。咨询和工业需要这样的科学家和工程师，以便成为自然和人为环境的良好管家，研究实验室和学术界也需要他们来进一步了解地球环境系统。

9912319KolarFaculty from the School of Engineering and Environmental Science (CEES) at the University of Oklahoma has established an 8-week summer REU Site centered around the disciplines of geo-environmnetal engineering and science. The objective is to immerse 12 students per year in advanced research topics by providing them with meaningful projects that span all major steps of scientific inquiry: formulate questions, develop hypothesis, conduct literature reviews, set-up an experimental matrix, analyze and synthesize results, and prepare final reports (oral and written). Activities extend beyond the laboratory or field site, where REU students are members of a faculty/graduate student research tema, to include orientation seminars, hazardous waste and safety training, Friday luncheous devoted to research issues, pratice presenations and ethics, field trips to research facilities, and social functions. The vision of this REU Site is to creat an engaging atmosphere to motivate amd prepare undergraduate students to pursue advanced degrees in the critical areas of geo-environmental engineering and science. Such scientists and engineers are needed in consulting and industry in order to be good steweards of the natural and man-made environments, and they are needed in research labs and academia to further our understanding of geo-environmental systems.