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

REU项目由莱斯量子研究所（Rice Quantum Institute）开展，汇集了来自外部大学和莱斯大学的一些学生，进行为期十周的跨学科夏季研究项目。其重点是为本科生（通常来自资源有限的学校）提供一个进入许多在课堂上不容易学到的研究领域的快速起步。通过与各种研究小组的接触，有组织的实验室参观，莱斯大学研究生每周的研讨会，以及与REU其他学生频繁的科学和社会互动，学生们可以接触到不同的学科。每个学生还与来自物理与天文、化学、电气与计算机工程、机械工程与材料科学、生物工程、化学工程、计算与应用数学、土木与环境工程等系的一个特定研究小组一起完成一个项目。这包括一个加速学习阶段，在此期间学生熟悉一个新的领域，并依靠小组的本科生、研究生、博士后和教师导师向他们展示相关文献、实验室专业知识、仪器和计算机技能等。这就进入了研究的主要阶段，他们被赋予了使项目成功完成的责任。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的观众，包括REU的学生，莱斯大学的研究小组和其他人员，以及来自邻近学校和行业的感兴趣的外部人员，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.