REU Site: Socially Relevant Computing Research: Visualization, Virtual Environments, Gaming, and Networking

该项目的目标是通过提供一个夏季的研究经验，将沉浸到研究实验室的活动和文化的本科生，以扩大参与计算博士课程。参与实验室包括夏洛特可视化中心、未来计算实验室、游戏+学习实验室和网络研究实验室。学生将专注于计算研究，在这些实验室，使人们能够解决个人兴趣的问题，或对整个社会很重要（社会相关计算）。这些活动包括夏季研究经验，向学生介绍计算研究方法和广泛的计算研究学科。学生将得到同行和教师导师的支持。 学生将参加GRE预备课程，并将展示如何申请并在研究生院取得成功。目标学生参与者是妇女和代表性不足的少数民族学生，他们是正在上升的大三学生，主要来自非博士机构。预期的影响是，大量的REU学生将申请计算博士课程。智力优势智力优势将主要是对计算研究的贡献，将由参加REU网站的本科生产生。所涉及的主题在CS中相对较新。 此外，本发明还项目评估将通过展示REU网站结构在激励学生申请计算机博士课程方面的成功和挑战，为招收本科生到博士课程提供信息。代表了成功参与研究并申请并被接受进入计算研究生课程的计算人群。

The project objectives are to broaden participation in computing doctoral programs by providing a summer research experience that will immerse undergraduates into the activities and culture of a research lab. Participating labs include the Charlotte Visualization Center, the Future Computing Lab, the Games+Learning Lab and the Networking Research Lab. Students will focus on computing research, within these labs, that empower people to solve problems of personal interest or that are important to society at large (socially relevant computing). The activities include a summer research experience introducing students to computing research methodologies and a broad array of computing research disciplines. Students will receive support from peer and faculty mentors. Students will take a GRE prep course and will be shown how to apply to and succeed in graduate school. The targeted student participants are women and under-represented minority students who are rising juniors, predominantly from non-doctoral institutions. The intended impact is that a high number of REU students will apply to computing doctoral programs.INTELLECTUAL MERITThe intellectual merit will primarily be the contributions to computing research that will be produced by the undergraduate students participating in the REU Site. The topics addressed are relatively new in CS. Additionally, the program evaluation will inform efforts to recruit undergraduate students to doctoral programs by demonstrating the success and challenges of this REU Site structure for motivating students to apply to doctoral programs in computing.BROADER IMPACTThe broader impact of the project will be evidenced by the increased numbers of students from under-represented populations in computing who successfully participate in research and who apply to and are accepted into graduate programs in computing.