REU Site: SURF-IT: Exploring Integrative System Design at UCSC

REU 网站：SURF-IT：探索 UCSC 的集成系统设计

• 批准号: 1156606
• 负责人: Matthew Guthaus
• 金额: $ 37.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-04-01 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1156606&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; SURF; Exploring; Integrative

This award provides funding to renew the existing successful CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site at the University of California - Santa Cruz (UCSC). The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology (SURF-IT) at UCSC provides an intensive and personalized summer research program focused on integrative systems design. SURF-IT is a 9-week summer program that includes research directly supervised by a UCSC faculty member. Students also have weekly meetings on graduate school preparation, ethics, and research presentation, as well as field trips to local neighboring Silicon Valley research laboratories, and a number of social activities. The summer program concludes with a research poster presentation by the SURF-IT students. The goal is to promote diversity in computer science and engineering by assisting motivated students in obtaining graduate degrees, who then become positive role models for future generations of college students throughout the nation. To better achieve this goal, the site maintains continuing contact with SURF-IT alumni to assist them in applying to and succeeding in graduate school, as well as in their eventual careers. Intellectual merit: The students join a variety of funded research projects in integrative system design within UCSC's department of computer engineering. The special intellectual merit of each project varies, however all students will learn to apply their traditional academic training to open-ended research problems at the forefront of information technology. The site has a group of mentors with outstanding experience and expertise to direct the intellectual component of each project.Broader Impacts: The broader impacts revolve around the focus on inclusion of individuals from groups underrepresented in information technology, such as women and racial/ethnic minorities. These individuals are moving toward leadership positions in academia and industry, thus providing positive role models for a next generation. The combination of this program and other REU sites ensures broadened participation in computer science and computer engineering, as well as an increased domestic pool of highly trained information technologists.

该奖项提供资金，用于更新加州大学圣克鲁斯分校(UCSC)现有的面向本科生的成功CISE研究经验网站。加州大学伯克利分校的暑期信息技术本科生研究奖学金(SURF-IT)提供集中和个性化的暑期研究项目，重点是集成系统设计。SURF-IT是一个为期9周的暑期项目，其中包括由加州大学洛杉矶分校的一名教员直接指导的研究。学生们还每周举行一次研究生院准备、伦理和研究报告会议，并到当地邻近的硅谷研究实验室进行实地考察，以及一些社会活动。暑期项目以SURF-IT学生的研究海报演示结束。其目标是通过帮助有动力的学生获得研究生学位来促进计算机科学和工程领域的多样性，这些学生随后成为全国未来几代大学生的积极榜样。为了更好地实现这一目标，该网站与SURF-IT校友保持持续联系，以帮助他们申请并在研究生院取得成功，以及他们最终的职业生涯。智力优势：学生在加州大学计算机工程系参加各种资助的综合系统设计研究项目。每个项目的特殊智力价值各不相同，但所有学生都将学会将他们的传统学术培训应用于信息技术前沿的开放式研究问题。该网站有一组具有杰出经验和专业知识的导师来指导每个项目的智力部分。更广泛的影响：更广泛的影响围绕着将信息技术中代表性较低的群体(如妇女和种族/少数民族)的个人纳入其中。这些人正在走向学术界和工业界的领导职位，从而为下一代提供了积极的榜样。该项目与REU的其他网站相结合，确保了更广泛地参与计算机科学和计算机工程，以及增加了国内训练有素的信息技术专家队伍。