REU Site in Sustainable Urban Environments

在辛辛那提大学（UC）的“可持续城市环境”（SUE）项目中，这个为期三年的REU现场项目将重点研究清洁水获取、可再生能源、碳封存方法和改善城市基础设施的技术。为REU网站选择的研究项目是由美国国家工程院（NAE）提出的四个工程大挑战的激励。这个为期八周的暑期REU现场项目的目标是为本科生提供研究培训和研讨会，以及使用现代技术进行和传播跨学科研究的讲习班。该计划旨在通过让有才华的本科生参与研究，鼓励他们进入研究生院。学生将被安排在团队中，并由教师和博士生指导一个研究项目。他们将参加一系列研讨会，培训他们进行研究，并参加互动式讲习班，提供研究技能，以传播他们的研究成果。每个团队将每两周做一次演讲和进度报告，并在项目结束时提交一份技术论文、海报和幻灯片演示。我们将鼓励参与者参与共同撰写的报告和出版物，为他们在SUE新兴领域的研究领域做出重大贡献。学生还将参加协调的社会和学术活动，包括：1)全校范围的欢迎野餐；2)每年举办为期一周的大学生研究海报论坛，内容包括海报展示、颁奖宴会、特邀演讲、？人呢?选择奖，？GRE备考环节；3)电子期刊，传播与加州大学本科生共同撰写的研究成果。最后，参与者的前后调查和评委的评价将被用来进行形成性和总结性评估。REU网站计划将介绍来自不同工程背景的本科生到工程和科学。这种跨学科的实验室/计算机模拟研究经验有望帮助招聘和留住工程或科学专业的学生。入选的研究项目还展示了工程师如何为整个社会解决问题，这将吸引女性和少数族裔，她们倾向于选择能提高总体生活质量的职业道路。该项目将通过让有才华的本科生参与研究，鼓励他们进入研究生院。由于招募的参与者中有50%是少数民族和女性，该项目将增加参与研究的未被充分代表的研究生的数量。

This three year REU Site program in "Sustainable Urban Environments" (SUE) at the University of Cincinnati (UC) will focus on techniques to study Access to Clean Water, Renewable Energy Sources, Carbon-Sequestration Methods, and Improved Urban Infrastructure. The research projects selected for the REU Site are motivated by four of the Grand Challenges for Engineering produced by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The goal of this eight-week summer REU Site program is to provide undergraduate students with research training and seminars and workshops on the use of modern technology in conducting and disseminating cross-disciplinary research. The program intends to encourage talented undergraduates to enroll in graduate school by exposing them to research. Students will be placed in teams and guided on a research project by faculty member(s) and a doctoral student. They will participate in a seminar series to train them to conduct research and participate in interactive workshops to provide the research skills to disseminate their findings. Each team will make biweekly presentations and progress reports, and at the end of the program present a technical paper, poster and power-point presentation. The participants will be encouraged to engage in co-authored presentations and publications that make significant contributions to their field of research in the new emerging areas of SUE. Students will also participate in coordinated social and scholastic activities including: 1) a university-wide welcome picnic; 2) a week-long annual Undergraduate Research Poster Forum (URPF), which includes poster presentations, an awards banquet, a distinguished guest lecture, ?People?s Choice Awards, ? and GRE preparation session; and 3) e-journal of papers to disseminate research with UC undergraduate students as co-authors. Finally, pre- and post-surveys by participants and evaluations by judges will be used to conduct the formative and summative assessments.The REU Site program will introduce undergraduates from diverse engineering backgrounds to engineering and science. This hands-on interdisciplinary laboratory/computer simulation research experience is expected to help in recruiting and retaining students in engineering or science programs. The research projects selected also show how engineers solve problems for society at large, which will be appealing to women and minorities who tend to choose pathways leading to careers that improve quality of life generally. The program will encourage talented undergraduates to enroll in graduate school by exposing them to research. Since 50% of the participants recruited will be minorities and women, the project will increase the number of underrepresented graduate students involved in research.