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

由莱斯量子研究所进行的REU计划汇集了来自外部大学以及莱斯大学的一些学生，进行为期十周的跨学科夏季研究计划。重点是为本科生提供一个跳跃式的开始，进入许多方面的研究，不能很容易地在课堂上学习，这些学生通常来自资源有限的学校。 学生们接触到不同的学科与各种研究小组，有组织的实验室图尔斯之旅，由赖斯格拉德生每周研讨会，并与其他REU学生频繁的科学和社会互动的接触。每个学生还与来自物理和天文学，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和环境工程部门的特定研究小组合作开展项目。这涉及到一个加速学习期，学生熟悉一个新的领域，并依赖于本科生，研究生，博士后和教师导师的小组，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，这导致进入研究的主要时期，他们被赋予的责任，使项目顺利完成。与会者有机会在RQI学术讨论会的最后一天介绍他们的工作。这个一年一度的活动，它聚集了由REU学生，研究小组和其他来自赖斯，以及来自邻近学校和行业感兴趣的局外人组成的大量观众，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.