REU Site in Telematics and Automotive Information Technology

该奖项为科学和工程学科的本科生提供支持，特别是在信息技术和汽车工程的跨学科领域拥有队列和高质量研究经验的代表不足的女性和少数族裔。该项目每年有10名学生参加，为期八周的密集夏季研究夏令营。该项目是跨学科的，涉及来自电气和计算机工程、计算机科学和生物机械工程三个系的12名参与的教师导师。该计划旨在提高学生将科学方法应用于实践研究的技能，并对每个学生进行现代研究技术培训；引导学生更独立地追求他们的研究兴趣；努力增加进入并完成科学和工程研究生课程的女性和代表性较低的少数民族的参与。学生将与合适的导师匹配，参与广泛的个人研究项目，这些领域包括车辆安全研究中的计算机建模和模拟、车辆的嵌入式系统和基于计算机的控制、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学习经验整合到本科教育中，以促进留住理工科学生，并激励他们继续攻读研究生。该计划有助于培养一支受过教育的计算劳动力，能够以创新的方式迅速将新想法付诸实施，服务于民众的需求，并开始更好地利用扁平的世界现实，从而使整个社会受益。

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.