REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Electrical and Computer Engineering (IREECE)

这个为期三年的奥克兰大学REU现场项目每年将吸引10名本科生参与电气和计算机工程领域的实践研究项目。这些研究项目将解决生物医学工程、纳米技术、自主陆地和空中交通工具以及医学图像处理方面的技术挑战。REU计划的目标如下：1)为学生提供与研究教师和来自行业和其他研究组织的专家的长期合作关系；2)为女性及少数族裔学生，以及来自非研究型/文理院校的学生提供令人振奋的研究经验；3)提高学生对研究和科学推理本质的理解；4)鼓励学生从事科学和工程相关领域的研究和研究生学习；5)为来自密歇根州底特律市及周边地区的参与者提供参与传统底特律汽车行业以外项目的机会；(6)提高学生的口头和书面技术沟通能力；(7)提高学生在多学科环境中的团队合作和协作能力；(3)为有关部门和教师提供将本科生纳入研究项目的宝贵经验。建议的活动有何更广泛的影响？PI计划为REU项目招收70%的女性和少数族裔学生。学生将被鼓励在STEM相关领域进行研究生学习。从该项目中获得的关于在研究环境中成功留住和指导学生的经验教训，特别是那些代表性不足的学生；将在适当的会议/期刊上散发。

This three year REU Site program at Oakland University will engage ten undergraduate students each year in hands-on research projects focused in the area of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The research projects will address technical challenges in biomedical engineering, nanotechnology, autonomous land and aerial vehicles, and medical image processing.The objectives of the REU program are the following: 1) to provide students with long-term collegial relationships with research faculty and experts from industry and other research organizations; 2) to provide women and minority students as well as students from non-research/liberal arts institutions with exciting research experience; 3) to increase the students' understanding of the nature of research and scientific reasoning; 4) to motivate students to pursue careers in research and graduate studies in science and engineering related fields; 5) to provide participants from Detroit, Michigan and surrounding areas and opportunity to be involved in projects beyond the traditional Detroit automotive industry; 6) to improve the student's oral and written technical communication skills, 7)to improve the student's teamwork and collaboration skills in a multidisciplinary environment, and ) to provide the department and faculty involved with valuable experience in incorporating undergraduate students into research programs.What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity?The PI intends to recruit 70% female and underrepresented minority students for the REU program. Students will be encouraged to pursue graduate studies in STEM related areas. The lessons learned from the program about successful retention and mentoring of students in a research environment, particularly the underrepresented; will be disseminated in appropriate conferences/journals.