REU Site: Modeling and Industrial Applied Mathematics

REU 网站：建模和工业应用数学

• 批准号: 1063010
• 负责人: Aloysius Helminck
• 金额: $ 48万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-05-01 至 2015-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1063010&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Modeling; Industrial; Applied

The REU program at North Carolina State University (NCSU) aims to get more undergraduates interested in pursuing academic and nonacademic careers in mathematics. We do this by giving students the opportunity to work on applied research problems in a supportive, collaborative environment that is part of a vibrant research department with collaborations in industry and government laboratories. The interdisciplinary nature of our REU program attracts students who do not necessarily think of themselves as primarily interested in mathematics (some are double majors, or have math minors). Through this summer experience we hope to show them the power of mathematical models and redirect them toward a career in the mathematical sciences. In our REU program students are exposed to challenging and exciting real-world problems arising in industrial and government laboratory research. This experience benefits its participants in ways not possible with traditional coursework. Students learn valuable techniques of applied mathematics and work in teams to accomplish common objectives. The complexity and open-endedness of our REU problems provides a challenge that makes learning new techniques worthwhile. The fact that there may be no ready-made structures or body of results to cover the final problem formulation only compounds the excitement. These REU students see the value placed on their work by those outside the University and learn to appreciate the utility of mathematics in business and industry.

北卡罗来纳州州立大学（NCSU）的REU项目旨在让更多的本科生对数学的学术和非学术职业感兴趣。我们通过让学生有机会在一个支持性的协作环境中解决应用研究问题来实现这一目标，该环境是一个充满活力的研究部门的一部分，与行业和政府实验室合作。 我们的REU课程的跨学科性质吸引了那些不一定认为自己主要对数学感兴趣的学生（有些是双专业，或者有数学未成年人）。通过这个夏天的经验，我们希望向他们展示数学模型的力量，并将他们重新定向到数学科学的职业生涯。在我们的REU计划中，学生将接触到工业和政府实验室研究中出现的具有挑战性和令人兴奋的现实问题。这种经验使其参与者受益的方式不可能与传统的课程。学生学习应用数学的宝贵技术，并在团队中完成共同的目标。我们的REU问题的复杂性和开放性提供了一个挑战，使学习新技术是值得的。可能没有现成的结构或结果来覆盖最终的问题公式，这一事实只会加剧兴奋。这些REU学生看到的价值放在他们的工作由那些大学以外，并学会欣赏数学在商业和工业中的效用。