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

地震信息技术本科研究(USEIT)是由南加州地震中心(SCEC)在其牵头机构南加州大学实施的基于团队的本科生研究计划。地震是最复杂的陆地现象之一，地震动力学建模是科学计算中最困难的问题之一。USEIT允许学生在多学科协作团队中工作，以应对科学的“大挑战”，他们使用先进的信息技术工具来解决跨学科地震研究中的重要问题。这个主题每年都不同，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的计算机科学研究。USEIT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走向STEM领域的职业生涯。SCEC观察到，计算机科学和地球科学的本科生和研究生学位课程继续扮演着烟囱的角色，通过狭窄的学科培训来培养学生，而不是给他们足够的广度来跨越系统科学的主要问题领域。USEIT提供CS/IT和系统科学的交叉培训，鼓励学生拓宽他们在大学的课程，并考虑在系统科学的CS/IT方面的研究生工作。地震对地震活跃地区(如南加州)的建筑环境构成最大的自然威胁。SCEC协调南加州的地震研究，南加州有2300万人口，约占全国地震风险的一半。SCEC的科学计划是针对地震系统科学最紧迫的问题而制定的，USEIT加强了SCEC将需要的CS/IT专业知识，以实现其在强震预测和地震可预报性方面的目标。USEIT使参与国家减少灾害计划(NEHRP)的所有联邦机构受益；尤其是，它加强了USGS地震危险地图计划以及NSF内与NEHRP相关的主要倡议的工作人员，包括地球望远镜计划和乔治·E·布朗地震工程模拟网络。随着实习生校友发展成为系统科学领域精通CS/IT的新一代领导者，USEIT将产生最广泛的影响。鉴于全国范围内CS/IT本科学位课程的入学人数急剧下降，尤其是女性，USEIT中女性和少数族裔学生的参与度越来越高，这一点尤为重要。该网站由国防部与NSF REU项目共同资助。

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.