REU Site: Wireless communications for rural and remote areas

EEC-0648694Richard S.提议的REU网站将每年吸引8名本科生在蒙大拿州立大学进行为期10周的研究体验，为期三年。 该计划的目标是：1）让本科生接触现实世界，创新和跨学科的研究，重点是农村和偏远地区的无线通信; 2）鼓励更多的本科生继续他们的学术生涯，并寻求工程，计算机和信息科学的研究生学位;和3）发展研究技能，提高沟通和协作技能。 这个REU计划将紧密耦合到非常成功的密歇根州立大学校园范围内和工程学院的计划已经到位，以招募和留住美国原住民学生。这个REU将满足国家对创新工程研究人员和专业人员的多样化群体的需求，他们能够使用各种技术来解决越来越多的服务于商业，教育和国防目标。 此外，REU计划将吸引高质量的本科美洲原住民学生，来自地区部落学院的学生，来自蒙大拿州学院和其他资源有限的农村地区的学生，以及女性工程专业的学生，以增加学生的性别和文化多样性。该计划将建立在蒙大拿州立大学吉尔豪森电信计划的基础上，并将作为其补充，并将被指导理查德·S教授该网站由国防部与NSF REU项目合作支持。

EEC-0648694Richard S. WolffThe proposed REU site will engage 8 undergraduate students each year for three years in a 10 week research experience at Montana State University. The objectives of the program are: 1) to expose undergraduate students to real-world, innovative and interdisciplinary research focused on wireless communications for rural and remote areas; 2) to encourage more undergraduates to continue their academic careers and seek graduate degrees in engineering, computer and information science; and 3) to develop research skills and improve communication and collaborative skills. This REU program will be tightly coupled to the highly successful MSU campus-wide and College of Engineering programs already in place to recruit and retain Native American students.This REU will address the nation's need for a diverse group of innovative engineering researchers and professionals capable of using a variety of technologies to address communications systems needs in an ever increasing number of diverse domains serving commercial, educational and national defense objectives. Also, the REU program will serve to attract high-quality undergraduate Native American students, students from regional tribal colleges, students from Montana colleges and colleges from other rural areas with limited resources, as well as women engineering students to increase the gender and cultural diversity of students.This program will build on and will be complementary to the Montana State University Gilhousen Telecommunications Program and will be directed by Professor Richard S. Wolff, Gilhousen Telecommunications Chair.This site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.