REU SITES: Virtual Environments REU Site

EIA-0097688 Van Scoy，Van lbaker，David VWest弗吉尼亚大学研究公司REU站点：虚拟环境REU站点将在西弗吉尼亚大学主办的这个NSF-REU项目的重点是“虚拟环境”。该计划的目标是(1)向本科生提供高级可视化技术的实用技能，其中“可视化”的延伸含义是“将信息呈现到耳朵、手指甚至鼻子”；(2)让本科生在将虚拟环境(VE)技术应用于物理科学、健康科学和社会科学问题的多学科研究中获得实践经验；(3)帮助本科生发现研究职业的兴奋之处；以及(4)提供跨文化体验，将主要来自阿巴拉契亚地区和波多黎各的学生聚集在一起，并让一些学生有机会在日本的学术研究实验室工作。我们的招聘目标是每年夏天有3名来自波多黎各大学的学生，6名来自西弗吉尼亚和阿巴拉契亚地区四年制学院的学生，以及3名来自西弗吉尼亚大学的学生。这些学生预计来自不同的专业，包括生物、计算机科学、地理和物理，他们将被分成小组，与教职员工和研究生研究人员一起解决计算机科学、地理信息系统、材料科学和药学方面的问题。除了暑期计划的第一周和最后一周，学生们将在周一、周三和周五与研究人员就特定的学科研究项目进行合作。在周二和周四，他们将参加关于特定VE技术和工具的半天培训课程，在VE实验室工作，并参加每周一次的研究研讨会，所有参与者、本科生、研究生和教职员工都将参加。在2001、2002和2003年的每个暑期项目结束后，将从当年的参与者中挑选三名学生，在下一个暑期在日本岐阜市大学的虚拟系统实验室工作。该计划将在春季为这些被选中的参与者提供日语和文化培训，然后他们将在日本体验夏季。

EIA-0097688Van Scoy, Van LBaker, David VWest Virginia University Research CorporationREU Sites: Virtual Environments REU Site The focus of this NSF-REU program to be hosted at West Virginia University is "virtual environments." The objectives of the program are (1) to give undergraduate students practical skills in advanced visualization techniques where "visualization" has the extended meaning of "presentation of information to the ears, or the fingers, or even the nose"; (2) to give undergraduate students practical experience in multidisciplinary research applying virtual environments (VE) technology to problems in physical science, health science, and social science; (3) to help undergraduates discover the excitement of a career in research; and (4) to provide a cross cultural experience, by bringing together students primarily from the Appalachian region and from Puerto Rico and by giving some students the opportunity to work in an academic research lab in Japan.Our recruiting goal is to have 3 students from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, 6 students from four year colleges in West Virginia and the Appalachian region, and 3 students from WVU each summer. These students are expected to come from a variety of majors, including biology, computer science, geography, and physics and will be divided into teams to work with faculty and graduate student researchers on problems in computer science, geographic information systems, materials science, and pharmacy. Each week except for the first and last week of the summer program, students will work on Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays with researchers on specific disciplinary research projects. On Tuesdays and Thursdays they will attend half day training sessions on specific VE technologies and tools, work in the VE Lab, and participate in a weekly research seminar involving all participants, undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty. After each summer program in 2001, 2002, and 2003, three students will be selected from that year's participants to work in the Virtual Systems Laboratory at Gifu University in Japan during the following summer. The program will provide Japanese language and culture training for these selected participants during spring before their summer experience in Japan.