REU site: Experiences in Neural Engineering

这个在新泽西理工学院（NJIT）的为期三年的REU现场项目每年将招收10名本科生从事神经工程领域的研究。REU项目的目标是：1)促进广泛的互动，该项目将安排与学生研究人员、教师导师和研究生教练每周两次的会议；2)为了确保持续的互动，pi将与研究生教练合作，在实验室环境中与学生研究人员进行即兴会议。这些互动最终会促进学生更多的自主学习，因为一定程度的独立性对专业发展至关重要。此外，还计划了一个讨论会、讲习班和活动的时间表，以促进职业规划和工业研究、研究生研究、道德、编制海报和手稿以及信息素养等领域的专业发展。参与者将被鼓励参加地区性会议，如IEEE东北生物工程会议，这是学生研究报告的主要地方场所，以及更大的会议，如生物医学工程学会年会，专门介绍本科生夏季研究报告。最后，根据教师导师的判断，当项目达到该水平时，出版物将以科学期刊为目标。更广泛的影响招聘工作将针对主要侧重于本科教育的大学的本科生。特别强调每年至少招收两名残疾学生。没有生物医学工程（BME）专业的学生可以申请，只要他们完成了基础工程课程，并表达了与拟议项目相关的研究兴趣。与主要本科院校（PUIs）建立了关系，以促进招收没有研究机会的学生。特别是，首席研究员已经安排从罗斯-霍尔曼、巴克内尔大学和新泽西学院招募。

Intellectual MeritThis three year REU site program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)will engage ten undergraduate students each year in research focused in the area of neural engineering. The objectives of the REU program are: 1) to facilitate broad interaction, the program will have scheduled meetings with student researchers, faculty mentors, and graduate student coaches twice a week and 2) to ensure consistent interaction, the PIs will work with graduate student coaches to initiate impromptu meetings with student researchers in their laboratory environment. These interactions should ultimately facilitate more self-directed learning on the part of the student, as a level of independence is certainly critical to professional development. In addition, a schedule of seminars, workshops, and activities are planned to promote professional development in the areas of career plans and industrial research, graduate student research, ethics, preparing poster and manuscripts, and information literacy. Participants will be encouraged to attend regional conferences such as the IEEE Northeast Bioengineering Conference, a premier local venue for student research presentation and larger conferences such as the Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting that features dedicated undergraduate summer research presentations. Finally, at the faculty mentors discretion, publications will be targeted to scientific journals when projects excel to that level.Broader ImpactsRecruitment efforts will target undergraduate students from colleges that are focused primarily in undergraduate education. Special emphasis will be placed on recruiting at least two students each year who are disabled. Students from institutions without Biomedical Engineering (BME) programs will be encouraged to apply as long as they have completed fundamental engineering coursework and express research interests relevant to the proposed projects. Relationships have been fostered with Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) to facilitate recruitment of students with few research opportunities. In particular, the Principal Investigators have arranged to recruit from Rose-Hulman, Bucknell University, and the College of New Jersey.