REU Sites: Research Experiences for Underrepresented Undergraduates in Smart Environments

题目：智能环境中未被充分代表的本科生的研究经验spis: Behrooz Shirazi和Diane Cook Institution：华盛顿州立大学这个REU现场项目（REU- se）的目标是扩大未被充分代表的群体的本科研究，特别是来自太平洋西北地区的西班牙裔。太平洋西北地区最近见证了拉美裔人口的快速增长，达到了华盛顿州中南部人口的37%。该州官员谴责四年制大学拉美裔学生的低入学率，并表示情况已经接近危机水平。REU-SE项目的目的是吸引目标西班牙裔学生群体从事工程职业和研究生教育。本REU项目的研究主题是智能环境。这是一个令人兴奋的研究领域，它从各种工程领域中汲取灵感，并在家庭自动化、健康监测和节能方面找到了应用。因为学生们将住在作为测试场地的公寓里，他们将完全沉浸在项目中，并有充足的机会与项目中的其他教师、研究生和REU学生互动。我们扩大本科生参与工程研究的方法是基于这样一个命题，即通过让学生在学士学位学习的早期参与有趣的应用研究，我们将在目标学生群体中灌输对CS/CE/EE领域的强烈信心、成就感和归属感。除了从事研究之外，REU的参与者还将接受文献检索、技术阅读和写作以及演讲技巧方面的培训。参与者将受到pi，教师导师和研究生导师的密切指导。他们还将被邀请回到项目中，作为未来REU参与者的导师。虽然REU-SE计划的重点是吸引和留住未被充分代表的西班牙裔学生进入计算机和电气工程领域，但这里提出的模型广泛适用于其他学生群体和其他学科。此外，该计划将对增加攻读学士学位以外的高级学位的学生人数产生积极影响。由于在REU-SE中强有力的计划招聘努力和强有力的指导组成部分，我们期望“口耳相传”效应将该计划的好处的知识传播给目标人群，从而在未来许多年扩大对CS/CE/EE研究计划的参与。

Title: Research Experiences for Underrepresented Undergraduates in Smart EnvironmentsPIs: Behrooz Shirazi and Diane Cook Institution: Washington State UniversityThe goal of this REU site program (REU-SE) is to broaden undergraduate research in underrepresented groups, particularly Hispanics from the Pacific Northwest region.The Pacific Northwest has recently witnessed a rapid growth in its Hispanic population, reaching 37% of the population in South Central Washington State. State officials have decried the low enrollment of Hispanics in four-year colleges and say the situation is nearing crisis levels. The REU-SE program's aim is to attract the targeted Hispanic student groups to engineering careers and graduate education. The research theme of this REU program is smart environments. This is an exciting area of research that draws from a variety of engineering fields and finds application in home automation, health monitoring, and energy conservation. Because the students will be living in apartments that also serve as test sites, they will be fully immersed in the project and given abundant opportunity to interact with other faculty, graduate students, and REU students in the program. Our approach to broadening participation of undergraduate students in engineering research is based on the proposition that by engaging students in interesting applied research early in their baccalaureate studies, we will instill a strong sense of confidence, achievement, and belonging in the fields of CS/CE/EE in the targeted student groups. In addition to getting engaged in research, the REU participants will be trained in literature searching, technical reading and writing, and presentation skills. The participants will be closely mentored by the PIs, the faculty mentors, and the graduate student mentors. They will also be invited back to the program to serve as mentors for future REU participants. While the focus of the REU-SE program is on attracting and retaining underrepresented Hispanic students to the computing and electrical engineering fields, the model proposed here is broadly applicable to other student groups and other disciplines. In addition, the program will have a positive impact on increasing the number of students who will pursue their advanced degrees, beyond baccalaureate. Because of a strong planned recruitment effort and a strong mentoring component in REU-SE, we expect the "word of mouth" effect to spread the knowledge of the benefits of the program among the targeted populations, resulting in broadening participation in CS/CE/EE research programs for many years to come.