REU Sites: Summer Undergraduate Research Program

EIA-0139576 Pless，RobertWashington University TITLE：暑期本科生研究计划该系支持本科生暑期研究机会的历史悠久，无论有没有外部支持，这些机会都将存在。然而，外部支持确实与计划的规模、学生体验的质量和招生的平衡有关的特定NSF目标进一步。特别是，所要求的资金将：o保持计划的有效规模，16名暑期学生。除了由他们的研究基金资助的暑期研究项目外，这给了足够多的学生来改善整体的学生体验。o培养更广泛的学生项目。o明确地将该项目的目标与教师个人的研究议程分开。从个人研究助学金支持学生的教职员工在招聘方面往往较为保守，他们必须选择符合其资金来源目标的项目。这可能会对学生的体验和选择产生负面影响。这个REU项目有三个明确的目标。第一，为来自不同背景的本科生提供参与前沿研究的机会和培训。第二，培养和推广华盛顿大学现有的本科生研究文化。第三，创造一个支持和鼓励研究的环境。这第一个目标将通过有针对性的广告活动来实现。这项活动不会排除任何潜在的学生来源，但将集中于n(A)主要教学大学，(B)历史上少数族裔学校，(C)非计算机科学系。第二，涉及指定的暑期研究计划学生群体的连贯计划给出了组织活动、社会团体和临界群体的理由，为其提供适当的计划，以帮助所有参与研究的本科生。最后，我们提出了一个包含显式训练组件的方案，以有效地向学生传授攻击研究问题的工具。在夏季期间，一套明确的检查点将使项目协调员能够识别和解决潜在问题。

EIA-0139576Pless, RobertWashington UniversityTITLE: Summer Undergraduate Research ProgramThe department has a long history of supporting undergraduate summer research opportunities, and these opportunities will exist with or without external support. However, external support does further particular NSF objectives having to do with the size of the program, the quality of the student experience, and the balance f student recruiting.In particular, the requested funding would:oMaintain an efficient size of the program, sixteen summer students. In addition to summer research projects funded from their research funds, this gives a criticalmass of students that improves the overall student experience.oFoster a broader range f student projects.oClearly separate the objectives of the program from individual faculty research agendas. Faculty who support students from individual research grants tend to be conservative in hiring and must choose projects that serve the objectives of their funding sources. This may negatively impact both the student experience and the student selection.There are three explicit goals for this REU program. First, to give undergraduates from many backgrounds the opportunity and training to participate in frontier research.Second, to foster and extend the undergraduate research culture already present at Washington University. Third, to create a supportive and encouraging environment to do research.This first goal will be met with a targeted advertising campaign. This campaign will not exclude any source of potential students, but will focus n (a) predominately teaching colleges, (b) historically minority schools, (c) non-computer science departments.Second, a coherent program involving a designated group of summer research program students gives a reason to organize events, a social group, and a critical mass for which it is appropriate to offer programs which aid all undergraduate students involved in research. Finally, we propose a program that includes an explicit training component to teach students the tools t attack research problems effectively. A set of defined check points during the course of the summer will allow program coordinators to identify and solve potential problems.