REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program at the Information Trust Institute

REU 网站：信息信托研究所暑期本科生研究实习计划

• 批准号: 0851957
• 负责人: Michael Loui
• 金额: $ 35.7万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-06-01 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0851957&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Summer; Undergraduate; Research

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The security and economic well-being of our society rests upon the trustworthiness of a vast complex of networked information systems that provide communications, computing, and control to manage our nation?s critical infrastructure systems (power, transportation, aerospace, telecommunications, health care, emergency response, banking, finance, and e-commerce). These critical infrastructure systems face enormous threats to their operation not only from malicious attacks, but also from their very nature as extremely complex, interconnected, and interdependent systems. The proposed summer REU site, at the Information Trust Institute (ITI), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advances knowledge about techniques for analyzing and improving the security, reliability, and safety of networked information systems. Intellectual Merit: This site has extensive computing resources and includes a team of senior investigators who have previous experience in collaborating with undergraduates in research projects. This effort is based upon projects in two prior highly successful summer undergraduate research internship programs that have resulted in co-authored publications. The topics of research are timely and address the important computing research problem of protecting networked information systems.Broader Impacts. A diverse group of undergraduates is learning how to conduct research and is becoming prepared to pursue graduate studies. The research teams include women and underrepresented minorities. Domestic students in this program are interacting with otherwise supported international students through their research projects and through ethics sessions. Graduate student mentors are learning mentoring skills. The educational effectiveness of the summer program, the ethics sessions, and the mentoring experiences are being assessed. The results of the assessments will be presented at conferences on computer science education and on engineering education.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。我们社会的安全和经济福祉依赖于一个庞大的网络信息系统的可靠性，这些系统提供通信、计算和控制，以管理我们的国家。关键基础设施系统（电力、交通、航空航天、电信、医疗保健、应急响应、银行、金融和电子商务）。这些关键基础设施系统的运营面临着巨大的威胁，不仅来自恶意攻击，而且来自其极其复杂，相互关联和相互依赖的系统。拟议中的夏季REU网站，在信息信任研究所（ITI），伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校，先进的技术分析和提高网络信息系统的安全性，可靠性和安全性的知识。智力优势：该网站拥有广泛的计算资源，包括一个由资深研究人员组成的团队，他们有与本科生合作研究项目的经验。这一努力是基于两个非常成功的暑期本科研究实习项目，这些项目已导致共同撰写的出版物。研究的主题是及时的，并解决了重要的计算研究问题，保护网络信息系统。一个多样化的本科生群体正在学习如何进行研究，并准备攻读研究生。研究小组包括妇女和代表性不足的少数民族。该计划的国内学生通过他们的研究项目和道德课程与其他支持的国际学生互动。研究生导师正在学习指导技能。正在评估暑期课程、道德课程和辅导经验的教育效果。评估结果将在计算机科学教育和工程教育会议上介绍。