REU Site: SUNFEST - Summer Undergraduate Research in Sensor Technologies

这个为期三年的REU网站项目每年为10名积极进取的本科生提供11个暑假周的研究机会。该项目的智力重点是传感器技术。主题包括传感器现象和材料、纳米和微型传感器技术、生物灵感传感器、机器人和生物医学应用的传感器系统。项目是根据教育价值和本科生的适宜性精心挑选的。除了研究项目，该项目还提供了一系列增强活动，帮助学生增强作为研究人员的信心，包括关于做研究、阅读和撰写技术论文、演讲、准备和申请研究生院、关于工程伦理的研讨会，以及工作场所和社区建设中的多样性。定期参加研究会议、午餐俱乐部和研讨会将进一步促进同行和顾问之间的合作互动。该计划的参与者将逐渐认识到他们的研究如何通过传感器技术、医疗诊断设备、生物医学传感器、机器人等方面的进步影响社会。招生工作将针对来自代表性不足的群体和没有研究机会或研究机会有限的较小学院的本科生，旨在增加工程学研究生的人才库。研究结果将在一个对公众开放的研讨会上公布。此外，还将在网站上提供年度Sunfest报告，包括单独的幻灯片演示和报告。鼓励学生在技术期刊和会议过程中发表他们的研究成果。该网站由国防部和NSF REU项目共同资助。

This three year REU Site program provides research opportunities to a group of ten motivated undergraduate students for 11 summer weeks each year . The intellectual focus of the program is sensor technology. The topics include sensor phenomena & materials, nano and micro-sensor technology, bio-inspired sensors, sensor systems for robotics and bio-medical applications. Projects are carefully selected based on the educational value and appropriateness for undergraduate students. In addition to the research projects, the program offers a series of enhancement activities to help students become more confident as a researcher, including workshops on doing research, reading and writing technical papers, giving presentations, preparing for and applying to graduate school, workshop on ethics in engineering, and diversity in the workplace & community building. Regular participation in research meetings, lunch clubs and seminars will further foster a collegial interaction among peers and advisors.Participants in the program will come to realize how their research impacts society through advances in sensor technologies, medical diagnostic devices, biomedical sensors, robotics, among others. Recruitment efforts will target undergraduate students from underrepresented groups and smaller colleges with no or limited research opportunities with the aim to increase the pool of engineering graduate students. The results of the research will be presented at a symposium that will be open to the public. In addition, a yearly SUNFEST report will be made available on the website, including individual slide presentations and reports. Students are encouraged to publish their work in technical journal and conference proceedings.This site is co-funded by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.