REU Site: Sensorimotor Neural Engineering

这项授予华盛顿州西雅图华盛顿大学的REU Site奖将支持2015-2017年夏季为期10周的10名学生的培训。REU计划向所有是美国公民、国民或永久居民的本科生开放。参加该项目的学生获得实验室研究技能，发展他们的批判性思维和解决问题的技能，了解科学的过程，并与他们的同龄人和普通公众交流他们的研究成果。学生们将有机会在全国会议上展示他们的成果。REU项目为学生提供了他们在学术课程中通常无法获得的体验。鼓励来自研究机会有限的学校和代表不足的群体的学生申请。这个REU网站的目标是为感觉神经工程中心(CSNE)有才华的本科生提供精心指导的研究体验。每个本科生都将进入一个合作小组，由一名研究生或博士后导师和一名教职员工共同参与一个研究项目。该团队将专注于CSNE项目，该项目已被精心挑选为跨学科生物科学和工程研究的良好范例，并与行业利益联系在一起。学生们还将参加每周一次的交流课程和日记俱乐部，内容涉及口头陈述和写作技能。每个学生将被要求为他们的研究撰写一份期刊风格的报告以供发表，并在一个小型研讨会上发表他们的夏季研究的口头和海报演示。重点将放在从代表性不足的群体中招收学生。由NSF BIO计划提供的通用评估工具将用于评估REU计划。学生需要在计划结束后进行跟踪，并必须回复通过NSF报告系统发送的自动电子邮件。欲了解更多信息，请访问http://www.csne-erc.org，或联系国际和平组织(Eric H.Chudler博士，电子邮件：chudler@u.washington.edu)或联合国际组织(Thomas Daniel，电子邮件：danielt@uw.edu)。

This REU Site award to the University of Washington, located in Seattle, WA, will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2015-2017. The REU program is open to all undergraduate students who are citizens, nationals or permanent residents of the United States. Students who participate in the program gain skills in lab research, develop their critical thinking and problem-solving skills, understand the process of science, and communicate their research results to their peers and the general public. Students will have an opportunity to present their results in a national conference. The REU program provides students an experience that is typically not available to them in their academic curriculum. Students from schools with limited opportunities for research and from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.The goal of this REU Site is to provide a carefully mentored research experience for talented undergraduate students at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE). Each undergraduate student will enter a collaborative team with a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow mentor and a faculty member as they undertake a research project. The team will focus on a CSNE project that has been carefully selected as a good example of interdisciplinary biosciences and engineering research and one that has ties to industry interests. The students will also participate in a weekly communications course and journal club that deals with both oral presentation and writing skills. Each student will be required to write a journal style report of their research for publication and deliver an oral and poster presentation of their summer research in a mini-symposium session. Emphasis will be placed on recruiting students from under-represented groups. The common assessment tool provided by the NSF BIO program will be used to assess the REU program.Students are required to be tracked after the program and must respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system. More information is available by visiting http://www.csne-erc.org , or by contacting the PI (Dr. Eric H. Chudler at chudler@u.washington.edu) or the co-PI (Dr. Thomas Daniel at danielt@uw.edu).