REU Site in Telematics and Automotive Information Technology

该奖项为理工科本科学生提供支持，特别是在信息技术和汽车工程等跨学科领域具有群体和高质量研究经验的代表性不足的女性和少数族裔学生。该项目是一个为期八周的暑期研究夏令营，每年有10名学生参加。该项目是跨学科的，涉及来自三个系的12名教师导师：电气与计算机工程、计算机科学和生物力学工程。该计划旨在提高学生在实践研究中应用科学方法的技能，并培养每个学生的现代研究技术；引导学生更独立地追求自己的研究兴趣；努力提高妇女和未被充分代表的少数民族进入并完成科学和工程研究生课程的参与度。学生将获得合适的导师，参与广泛的个人研究项目，包括车辆安全研究中的计算机建模和仿真、车辆嵌入式系统和计算机控制、车辆网络、远程信息处理应用以及可靠和安全的移动互联网服务。该计划将有意义的跨学科研究和积极的学习经验融入本科教育，以促进学生留在科学和工程专业，并激励他们继续读研。该计划通过培养受过良好教育的计算劳动力，使社会受益，这些劳动力能够以创新的方式快速将新想法付诸实践，服务于大众的需求，并开始更好地利用平坦的世界现实。

This award provides support to undergraduate students in science and engineering disciplines, in particular underrepresented women and minorities with cohort and high-quality research experiences in an interdisciplinary area of information technology and automotive engineering. The program is run in an eight-week long intensive summer research camp involving ten students per year. The program is cross-disciplinary, involving twelve participating faculty mentors from three departments: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Biomechanical Engineering. The program seeks to improve students' skills in applying the scientific method to hands-on research and train each student in modern research techniques; lead students to greater independence in pursuing their research interests; and strive to increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities who enter and complete graduate programs in science and engineering.The students will be matched with suitable mentors to participate in a wide range of individual research projects in the fields of computer modeling and simulation in vehicle safety study, embedded systems and computer-based control in vehicles, vehicular networks, telematics applications, and reliable and secure mobile Internet services. The program integrates meaningful interdisciplinary research and active learning experience into undergraduate education to promote retention of students in science and engineering, and motivate them to continue to graduate schools. The program benefits society at large by contributing to developing an educated computing workforce capable of quickly putting new ideas to work in innovative ways that serve the needs of the populace and begin to take better advantage of flat world realities.