REU Site: SCEC Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology (SCEC/UseIT)

地震信息技术本科研究（USEIT）是南加州地震中心（SCEC）在其牵头机构南加州大学实施的一个基于团队的本科研究项目。地震是最复杂的地球现象之一，地震动力学建模是科学中最困难的计算问题之一。USEIT允许学生在多学科合作团队中工作，利用先进的信息技术工具解决跨学科地震研究中的重要问题，解决科学“大挑战”。这个主题每年都在变化，但它总是需要进行地震科学家、教育工作者和其他目标受众所需要的计算机科学研究。usit的总体目标是通过在令人兴奋的地震信息技术领域进行团队研究，激励来自不同背景的本科生从事STEM领域的职业。SCEC观察到，计算机科学和地球科学的本科和研究生学位课程继续扮演着“烟囱”的角色，将学生聚集在狭窄的学科训练中，而没有给他们足够的广度来跨越系统科学的主要问题领域。usit提供CS/IT和系统科学的交叉培训，鼓励学生在大学拓宽他们的课程，并考虑在系统科学的CS/IT方面的研究生工作。地震对南加州等地震活跃地区的建筑环境构成了最大的自然威胁。SCEC负责协调南加州的地震研究。南加州人口2300万，地震风险约占全国的一半。SCEC科学计划是根据地震系统科学最紧迫的问题来阐述的，usit增强了SCEC在强地面运动预测和地震可预测性理解方面所需的CS/IT专业知识。usit使参与国家减少危害计划（NEHRP）的所有联邦机构受益；特别是，它加强了美国地质勘探局在地震灾害测绘方面的工作人员，以及国家科学基金会内部与nehrp相关的主要倡议，包括地球范围计划和乔治·e·布朗地震工程模拟网络。当实习校友发展成为新一代系统科学领域精通CS/IT的领导者时，USEIT将产生最广泛的影响。鉴于全国CS/IT本科学位课程的入学率急剧下降，尤其是在女性中，女性和少数族裔学生在USEIT中的参与度越来越高，这一点尤为重要。该站点由国防部与NSF REU项目合作资助。

Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology (USEIT) is a team-based undergraduate research program implemented by the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) at its lead institution, the University of Southern California. Earthquakes are among the most complex terrestrial phenomena, and modeling of earthquake dynamics is one of the most difficult computational problems in science. USEIT allows students to work in multi-disciplinary collaborative teams to tackle a scientific "Grand Challenge" where they use the advanced tools of information technology to solve important problems in interdisciplinary earthquake research. The topic varies each year but it always entails performing computer science research that is needed by earthquake scientists, educators, and other target audiences. The overarching goal of USEIT is to motivate undergraduates from diverse backgrounds toward careers in STEM fields through team-based research in the exciting field of earthquake information technology. SCEC has observed that undergraduate and graduate degree programs in both computer science and geoscience continue to act as stovepipes, funneling students through narrow disciplinary training without giving them adequate breadth to span the major problem areas of system science. USEIT provides the cross-training in CS/IT and system science that encourages students to broaden their coursework in college and to consider graduate work in the CS/IT aspects of system science.Earthquakes pose the greatest natural threat to the built environment in seismically active regions such as Southern California. SCEC coordinates earthquake research in Southern California, which comprises 23 million people and about half of the national earthquake risk. The SCEC science plan is articulated in terms of the most pressing issues of earthquake system science, USEIT enhances the CS/IT expertise that SCEC will need to achieve its objectives in the prediction of strong ground motions and the understanding of earthquake predictability. USEIT benefits all federal agencies that participate in the National Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP); in particular, it strengthens the workforce for the USGS's program in seismic hazard mapping, as well as major NEHRP-related initiatives within NSF, including the EarthScope Program and the George E. Brown Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation. USEIT's broadest impacts will come as the intern alumni develop into a new generation of CS/IT savvy leaders in system science. The high and increasing participation of women and minority students in USEIT is particularly important given the precipitous enrollment declines in CS/IT undergraduate degree programs around the country, especially among women.The site is co-funded by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.