REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Computational Sciences

该奖项为路易斯安那州立大学（LSU）计算与技术中心（CCT）的本科生研究经验（REU）网站提供资金。来自路易斯安那州立大学多个系的计算科学教师组成的多学科团队合作，为参与的学生提供多个科学学科计算方面的研究学习经验，包括化学、计算机科学、数字媒体、数学、物理、天文学、生物科学和土木、环境、石油、电气和计算机工程。REU网站的总体目标是促进本科生早期参与研究，让学生接触高性能计算和其他科学网络基础设施资源，通过合作研究环境中的实践经验促进主动学习，并激励学生追求先进的STEM教育和STEM研究事业。 REU网站通过让学生参与一系列精心策划的研究项目来实现这些目标，这些项目构成了广泛的科学和技术挑战。 与这些项目相结合，该计划提供了各种活动，旨在提高学生的计算，推理，解决问题，研究和沟通技能。 该计划还通过密集的合作和社会互动促进学生和教师之间的长期指导关系。只有在硬件的进步伴随着教育和劳动力发展的进步时，计算科学才能发挥其潜力。 这个REU网站项目的智力价值在于经验丰富的研究人员和优秀的合作研究环境的强大团队;该项目的更广泛的影响在于为学生提供研究学习经验，这将直接影响他们未来的职业道路。 我们发现，个性化的培训和沉浸在一个多学科的研究小组的组合已经成功地吸引了不同的学生团体来探索计算科学。我们从历史悠久的黑人学院和大学以及其他少数民族服务机构，社区学院以及没有STEM领域广泛研究生课程的小型大学大量招聘。我们也招收新生，目的是在他们的职业生涯早期抓住他们的兴趣。 当这些学生回到他们的家乡机构，并介绍他们的暑期研究，鼓励其他学生考虑类似的路径，创造一个“良性螺旋”的学生在干学习的兴趣上升，在计算科学的发现，并在技术和创新的职业生涯。

This award funds a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the Center for Computation and Technology (CCT) at Louisiana State University (LSU). A multi-disciplinary team of Computational Science faculty from several LSU departments collaborates to provide participating students with research-learning experiences in the computational aspects of multiple scientific disciplines, including Chemistry, Computer Science, Digital Media, Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy, Biological Sciences, and Civil, Environmental, Petroleum, Electrical, and Computer Engineering. The overall objectives of the REU Site are to promote early engagement of undergraduate students in research, to expose students to high-performance computing and other scientific cyberinfrastructure resources, to foster active learning through hands-on experiences in a collaborative research environment, and to inspire students to pursue advanced STEM education and STEM research careers. The REU Site pursues these objectives by engaging students in a set of carefully and extensively planned research projects that pose a wide range of scientific and technological challenges. In tandem with these projects, the program offers a variety of activities designed to improve students' computing, reasoning, problem-solving, research, and communication skills. The program also fosters long-term mentoring relationships between students and faculty, through intensive collaboration and social interaction.Computational Science will only fulfill its potential if advances in hardware are accompanies by advances in education and workforce development. The intellectual merit of this REU Site project lies in the strong team of experienced researchers and the outstanding collaborative research environment; the project's broader impact lies in providing students with a research-learning experience that will bear directly on their future career paths. We have found that the combination of individualized training and immersion in a multidisciplinary research group has been successful in engaging a diverse student-body to explore Computational Science. We recruit heavily from historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions, from community colleges, and from smaller universities without extensive graduate programs in the STEM fields. We also recruit entering freshmen, with the purpose of catching their interest early in their careers. As these students return to their home institutions and present their summer research, other students are encouraged to consider similar paths, creating a "virtuous spiral" of rising student interest in STEM learning, in Computational Science discovery, and in technology and innovation careers.