REU Site in Information Technology at the Baskin School of Engineering

机构：加州大学圣克鲁斯分校提案编号：EIA - 0244016PI: Richard hughey标题：巴斯金工程学院信息技术REU网站信息技术暑期本科生研究奖学金（SURF-IT）计划为12名代表性不足（女性和少数民族）和弱势本科生提供密集和个性化的暑期课程。这些学生主要来自那些没有很强的个性化研究机会的机构。SURF-IT是一个为期10周的暑期项目，包括由计算机工程、计算机科学或电气工程专业的教员直接监督的研究。学生们每周也有关于研究生院准备、研究伦理和研究报告的会议，以及到当地邻近的硅谷研究实验室进行实地考察。暑期课程以SURF-IT学生的研究海报展示结束，并与该机构内的其他本科暑期课程进行协调。该计划的目标是通过帮助有动力的学生获得研究生学位，从而成为全国未来几代大学生的积极榜样，从而促进工程领域的多样性。因此，在暑期课程结束后，教师们将继续与SURF-IT校友保持联系，以帮助他们申请研究生院并取得成功，以及在他们最终的职业生涯中取得成功。

Institution: University of California - Santa CruzProposal Number: EIA - 0244016PI: Richard HugheyTitle: REU Site in Information Technology at the Baskin School of EngineeringThe Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology (SURF-IT) program provides an intensive and personalized summer program for 12 underrepresented (women and minority) and disadvantaged undergraduates. The students are drawn primarily from institutions that do not have strong, personalized research opportunities. SURF-IT is a 10-week summer program that includes research directly supervised by a faculty member in computer engineering, computer science, or electrical engineering. Students also have weekly meetings on graduate school preparation, research ethics, and research presentation, as well as field trips to local neighboring Silicon Valley research laboratories. The summer program concludes witha research poster presentation by the SURF-IT students, coordinated with other undergraduate summer programs within the institution. The goal of the program is to promote diversity in engineering by assisting motivated students in obtaining graduate degrees to then become positive role models for future generations of college students throughout the nation. Thus after the summer program, the faculty maintains continuing contact with SURF-IT alumni to assist them in applying to and succeeding in graduate school, as well as in their eventual careers.