REU Site: SURF-IT: Exploring Integrative System Design at UCSC

加州大学圣克鲁斯分校（UCSC）的暑期本科生信息技术研究奖学金（SURF-IT）为学生提供了一个密集和个性化的暑期研究项目，重点是来自代表性不足的群体和弱势背景的本科生。SURF-IT的主要部分是一个为期9周的暑期项目，包括由加州大学圣迭戈分校的一名教员直接指导的研究。学生们每周也有关于研究生院准备、伦理和研究报告的会议，以及实地考察当地邻近的硅谷研究实验室，以及一些社会活动。暑期课程以冲浪-资讯科技学生的研究海报展示结束。其目标是通过帮助有动力的学生获得研究生学位来促进计算机科学和工程的多样性，然后这些学生成为全国未来几代大学生的积极榜样。为了更好地实现这一目标，该网站与SURF-IT校友保持着持续的联系，以帮助他们申请研究生院并在研究生院取得成功，以及最终的职业生涯。智力优势：学生将参与加州大学圣迭戈分校计算机工程系综合系统设计的各种资助研究项目。每个项目的特殊智力价值各不相同，但所有学生都将学会将他们的传统学术训练应用于信息技术前沿的开放式研究问题。更广泛的影响：其影响是来自信息技术中代表性不足的群体的更多个人，例如妇女和种族/少数民族。这些人正在走向学术界和工业界的领导职位，从而为下一代提供了积极的榜样。该计划和其他REU网站的结合确保了计算机科学和计算机工程的广泛参与，以及增加了训练有素的信息技术专家的国内池。

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology (SURF-IT) at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) provides an intensive and personalized summer research program for students with an emphasis on undergraduates from underrepresented groups and disadvantaged backgrounds.The primary part of SURF-IT is a 9-week summer program that includes research directly supervised by a UCSC faculty member. Students also have weekly meetings on graduate school preparation, ethics, and research presentation, as well as field trips to local neighboring Silicon Valley research laboratories, and a number of social activities. The summer program concludes with a research poster presentation by the SURF-IT students. The goal is to promote diversity in computer science and engineering by assisting motivated students in obtaining graduate degrees, who then become positive role models for future generations of college students throughout the nation. To better achieve this goal, the site maintains continuing contact with SURF-IT alumni to assist them in applying to and succeeding in graduate school, as well as in their eventual careers.Intellectual merit: The students join a variety of funded research projects in integrative system design within UCSC's department of computer engineering. The special intellectual merit of each project varies, however all students will learn to apply their traditional academic training to open-ended research problems at the forefront of information technology.Broader Impacts: The impact is that greater numbers of individuals from groups underrepresented in information technology, such as women and racial/ethnic minorities. These individuals are moving toward leadership positions in academia and industry, thus providing positive role models for a next generation. The combination of this program and other REU sites ensures broadened participation in computer science and computer engineering, as well as an increased domestic pool of highly trained information technologists.