Research Experiences for Undergraduates at the Rice Quantum Institute

由莱斯量子研究所(RQI)实施的REU项目汇集了许多来自外部大学和莱斯大学的学生，进行为期十周的跨学科暑期研究项目。重点是为本科生(通常来自资源较有限的学校)提供一个跳跃到许多不容易在课堂上学到的研究方面的起点。这些学生通过接触各种研究小组、组织实验室参观、莱斯研究生每周的研讨会以及与其他REU学生频繁的科学和社会互动，接触到不同的学科。每个学生都将加入一个单独的研究小组，每天与学生、博士后和教师导师一起参与尖端科学工作。RQI的成员在化学、物理、电气工程、化学工程、机械工程和材料科学、生物工程、计算和应用数学以及土木工程和环境工程方面的工作交织在一起，具有高度重叠的跨学科研究兴趣。理想情况下，选择的每个项目对学生来说都是具有挑战性的，但在10周的时间内仍然是可以管理的。将通过联合住房、每周由赖斯研究生举办的科学研讨会以及每周的科学和社会活动来促进群体凝聚力。虽然学生们将自然地讨论他们的工作的性质和进展情况，但他们也将在中途向彼此和PI介绍简短的计算机演示。这将巩固他们对彼此的进展和项目的知识，并提供科学演示的第一次经验。在最后一周，学生们将提交关于他们科学活动的书面报告，接受离职面试，并在项目的最后一天，与来自赖斯和其他学校的本科生一起，在一年一度的RQI夏季研究座谈会上展示他们工作的海报，在一个颁发竞争性奖项的环节中。将鼓励学生在其他会议上展示他们的成果。将继续努力跟踪参与者在参与后数年的职业发展情况。该网站由国防部与NSF REU计划以及NSF物理和化学部门合作共同资助。

The REU program conducted by the Rice Quantum Institute (RQI) 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 will become involved in cutting-edge scientific work by joining an individual research group and working daily with the students, postdocs and faculty supervisor. The members of RQI have strongly overlapping, interdisciplinary research interests that interweave work in chemistry, physics, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and materials science, bioengineering, computational and applied mathematics, and civil and environmental engineering. Each project chosen will ideally be challenging for the student, yet still manageable within the 10-week period. Group cohesiveness will be promoted through joint housing, weekly scientific seminars by Rice graduate students, and weekly scientific and social activities. While the students will naturally discuss among themselves the nature of their work and how it is progressing, they will also present brief computer presentations to each other and the PI at midsession. This will solidify their knowledge of each other's progress and projects as well as providing a first experience in scientific presentation. During the last week, students will turn in written reports of their scientific activities, go through exit interviews, and, on the last day of the program, present posters of their work in the annual RQI Summer Research Colloquium alongside undergraduates from Rice and other schools in a session where competitive prizes are awarded. Students will be encouraged to present their results at other conferences. Continual efforts will be made to track the career progress of the participants in the years after their participation. The site is co-funded by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program and by the NSF Physics and Chemistry Divisions.