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一项基于团队的本科研究计划。地震是地球上最复杂的现象之一，地震动力学建模是科学中最困难的计算问题之一。USEIT允许学生在多学科协作团队中工作，以应对科学的“大挑战”，他们使用信息技术的先进工具来解决跨学科地震研究中的重要问题。主题每年都有变化，但它总是需要执行地震科学家，教育工作者和其他目标受众所需的计算机科学研究。USEIT的总体目标是激励来自不同背景的本科生通过在地震信息技术的令人兴奋的领域进行基于团队的研究，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生和研究生学位课程继续充当烟囱，通过狭窄的学科培训来吸引学生，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。USEIT提供CS/IT和系统科学的交叉培训，鼓励学生扩大他们在大学的课程，并考虑系统科学的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，该地区有2300万人口，约占全国地震风险的一半。SCEC的科学计划阐述了地震系统科学的最紧迫的问题，USEIT增强了CS/IT专业知识，SCEC将需要实现其目标，在预测强地面运动和地震可预测性的理解。USEIT使参与国家减灾计划（NEHRP）的所有联邦机构受益;特别是，它加强了美国地质勘探局地震灾害测绘计划的工作人员队伍，以及NSF内部与NEHRP相关的主要举措，包括EarthScope计划和乔治E。地震工程模拟的布朗网络。USEIT最广泛的影响将来自实习生校友发展成为新一代的CS/IT精明的领导者在系统科学。鉴于全国CS/IT本科学位课程的入学率急剧下降，特别是女性，妇女和少数民族学生在USEIT的高参与度和不断增加的参与度尤为重要。该网站由国防部与NSF REU计划合作共同资助。

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.