REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates at the Rice Quantum Institute

由莱斯量子研究所实施的REU项目汇集了许多来自外部大学和莱斯大学的学生，进行为期十周的跨学科暑期研究项目。重点是为本科生(通常来自资源较有限的学校)提供一个跳跃到许多不容易在课堂上学到的研究方面的起点。这些学生通过接触各种研究小组、组织实验室参观、莱斯研究生每周的研讨会以及与其他REU学生频繁的科学和社会互动，接触到不同的学科。每个学生还与物理和天文学、化学、电气和计算机工程、机械工程和材料科学、生物工程、化学工程、计算和应用数学以及土木工程和环境工程系中的特定研究小组一起进行项目研究。这涉及到一个加速学习阶段，在这个阶段，学生们开始熟悉一个新的领域，并依赖本科生、研究生、博士后和团队的教师导师向他们展示相关的文献、实验室专业知识、仪器和计算机技能等。这将导致他们进入主要的研究阶段，在这个阶段，他们被赋予了成功完成项目的责任。参与者有机会在RQI研讨会的最后一天展示他们的工作。这个一年一度的活动聚集了大量观众，包括REU的学生、研究小组和来自赖斯的其他人，以及来自邻近学校和行业的感兴趣的外部人士，展示了研究所内正在进行的研究。

The REU program conducted by the Rice Quantum Institute brings together a number of students from outside universities as well as from Rice University for a ten-week interdisciplinary summer research program. The focus is to provide undergraduate students, frequently from schools with more limited resources, with a jump start into many aspects of research that cannot easily be learned in classes. The students are exposed to different disciplines by contact with a variety of research groups, organized lab tours, weekly seminars by Rice grad students, and frequent scientific and social interactions with other REU students. Each student also works on a project with a particular research group from among the departments of Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Computational and Applied Mathematics, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. This involves an accelerated learning period where students become familiar with a new field and depend on the undergrads, grads, postdocs and faculty mentor of the group to show them the relevant literature, lab expertise, instrument and computer skills, etc. This leads into the major period of research where they are given the responsibility for bringing the project to a successful completion. Participants are given an opportunity to to present their work on the last day at the RQI Colloquium. This annual event, which assembles a large audience made up of REU students, of research groups and others from Rice, as well as interested outsiders from neighboring schools and industries, showcases research going on within the Institute.