SCI: REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Network and Communication Systems

该项目建立了一个新的研究经验的本科生（REU）网站专注于网络和通信系统在田纳西理工大学（TTU）。它旨在为TTU以及全国其他大学的本科生提供研究机会。六名具有网络和通信系统专业知识的教员将担任导师。每年将根据现有项目中概述的兼容兴趣和技能选择10名学生，重点是从主要的本科院校和代表性不足的群体中招聘。将为所有与会者组织为期八周的夏季会议。在此期间，学生将首先完成为期两周的入门课程和实验室体验，以熟悉关键概念和研究工具。 随后，学生将从教师确定的项目列表中选择一个特定的研究项目，并与由教师和研究生组成的小型重点研究团队密切合作六周。 此外，TTU的一些参与者也将在秋季和春季学期继续他们的研究。 这一年的研究经验将使他们能够进行更实质性的研究任务，从而获得更丰富，更充实的经验。 还将组织与当地和区域/农村高中和社区大学的更广泛的外联活动。该计划将为参与的本科生提供显著的好处，使他们尽早接触网络领域，这是21世纪世纪的一个重要增长领域，除了专业和项目管理外，还帮助他们发展网络和通信系统领域的研究和技术技能。skills.预计这一经验将激发他们对研究生学习和研究的兴趣。该计划将对社会产生广泛的影响，有助于加快关键新兴领域世界级研究人才的培养，这对保持该领域的国家领先地位至关重要，促进提高对高中和社区大学网络技术的认识（和兴趣）。这将促进工程和计算教育的长期入学率的增长，为整个社会带来许多长期利益，并增加代表性不足的群体在工程和计算研究中的参与，从而响应NSF的既定目标，即增加代表性不足的选区的研究参与，并为建立一个更加国家多元化的劳动力队伍做出贡献。

This project establishes a new Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on network and communication systems at Tennessee Technological University (TTU). It is designed to provide research opportunities to cohorts of undergraduate students from TTU as well as other universities nationwide. Six faculty members with expertise in network and communication systems will serve as mentors. Ten students will be selected each year based on compatible interest and skills outlined in available projects with emphasis on recruiting from predominantly undergraduate institutions and under-represented groups. An eight-week long summer session will be organized for all participants. During this session students will first complete a two-week introductory course and lab experience to familiarize themselves with the key concepts and research tools. Subsequently, the students will choose a specific research project from a list of projects identified by the faculty and work closely with a small, focused research team of faculty and graduate students for additional six weeks. Furthermore, some participants from TTU will continue their research during the fall and spring semesters as well. This year-long research experience will enable them to carry out more substantial research tasks and thereby gain a more enriching, fulfilling experience. Broader outreach activities with local and regional/rural high schools and community colleges will also be organized.This program will provide significant benefits to participating undergraduate students by providing them an early exposure to the networking field, a crucial growth area in the 21st century and helping them to develop research and technical skills in the network and communication systems area in addition to professional and project management skills. It is also expected that this experience will stimulate in them an interest in graduate studies and research. The program will have a broad impact on the society by helping to accelerate the training of world-class research talent in key emerging areas, vital towards maintaining a national preeminence in the field, fostering increased awareness of (and interest in) networking technology at the high school and community college levels. This will promote growth in long-term enrollment in engineering and computing education, yielding many long-standing benefits to society at large and increased participation of under-represented groups in engineering and computing research, thereby responding to the NSF's stated goal of increasing research participation by under-represented constituencies and contributing to building a more nationally diverse workforce.