REU Site: SURE - Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering

REU 网站：SURE - 暑期本科生工程研究

• 批准号: 0453295
• 负责人: Gary May
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-05-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0453295&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; SURE; Summer; Undergraduate

Abstract for May, EEC-0453295:This proposal supports the continuation of Georgia Tech's Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) program to serve ten students per year for three years. The overall goal of SURE is to expose underrepresented minority students to electrical and computer engineering research, and as a direct consequence, to interest them in opportunities available through graduate study. Key elements of the program include ten weeks of challenging research in critical electrical and computer engineering areas (including optoelectronics, integrated circuits and devices, and digital signal processing), pairing of each student with both a faculty advisor and a graduate student mentor, a weekly seminar on emerging research in the dynamic field of electrical and computer engineering, opportunities to visit local industrial research sites, preparation of oral and written research summaries, and social and cultural interactions between the student participants and their graduate mentors.Programs such as SURE are an essential component of enhancing minority enrollment in advanced degree programs and ultimately, increasing the size of the minority Ph.D. population. The persistence gap between majority students and underrepresented minorities is evident only when proceeding from the Bachelor's to the Master's degree. The absence of such a gap when proceeding from either the B.S. or M.S. to the Ph.D. implies that once admitted to graduate school, underrepresented students are equally committed to pursuing the doctorate. The primary challenge therefore is getting underrepresented students to consider the graduate school option. This is a challenge that is currently being met by SURE. Since its inception in 1992, approximately 90% of SURE's nearly 250 total participants have gone to graduate school, and nearly half of those have come to Georgia Tech.

摘要5月，EEC-0453295：本提案支持继续格鲁吉亚理工学院的夏季本科工程研究（SURE）计划，每年为10名学生服务三年。SURE的总体目标是让代表性不足的少数民族学生接触到电气和计算机工程研究，并作为一个直接的结果，通过研究生学习，使他们对可用的机会感兴趣。 该计划的主要内容包括在关键的电气和计算机工程领域进行为期十周的挑战性研究（包括光电子学，集成电路和器件，以及数字信号处理），每个学生与导师和研究生导师配对，每周一次关于电气和计算机工程动态领域新兴研究的研讨会，参观当地工业研究场所的机会，准备口头和书面的研究总结，以及学生参与者和他们的研究生导师之间的社会和文化互动。像SURE这样的项目是提高少数民族在高级学位课程中入学率的重要组成部分，并最终增加少数民族博士学位的规模。人口大多数学生和代表性不足的少数群体之间持续存在的差距只有在从学士学位升到硕士学位时才明显。当从B.S.或多发性硬化症博士学位这意味着一旦被研究生院录取，代表性不足的学生同样致力于攻读博士学位。因此，主要的挑战是让代表性不足的学生考虑研究生院的选择。这是一个挑战，目前正在解决的。自1992年成立以来，SURE的近250名参与者中约有90%进入了研究生院，其中近一半进入了格鲁吉亚理工学院。