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跨学科领域具有高质量研究经验的女性和少数民族。该计划是在一个为期八周的密集的夏季研究营，涉及每年十名学生运行。该计划是跨学科的，涉及来自三个部门的12名参与教师导师：电气和计算机工程，计算机科学和生物力学工程。该方案旨在提高学生运用科学方法进行实践研究的技能，并训练每个学生掌握现代研究技术;引导学生在追求自己的研究兴趣方面更加独立;并努力提高进入并完成科学和工程研究生课程的女性和代表性不足的少数民族的参与程度。学生将与合适的导师相匹配，在汽车安全研究中的计算机建模和仿真、汽车嵌入式系统和基于计算机的控制、汽车网络、远程信息处理应用以及可靠和安全的移动的互联网服务等领域，该计划将有意义的跨学科研究和积极的学习经验整合到本科教育中，以促进学生在科学和工程领域的保留，并激励他们继续攻读研究生院。该计划有利于整个社会，有助于发展受过教育的计算劳动力，能够迅速将新的想法以创新的方式工作，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.