REU Site: Sensorimotor Neural Engineering

REU Site奖授予位于华盛顿州西雅图的华盛顿大学，将在2015-2017年夏季为10名学生提供为期10周的培训。REU计划向所有美国公民、国民或永久居民的本科生开放。参加该计划的学生将获得实验室研究技能，培养他们的批判性思维和解决问题的能力，了解科学的过程，并将他们的研究成果传达给同龄人和公众。学生们将有机会在全国会议上展示他们的成果。REU课程为学生提供了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性不足群体的学生申请。这个REU网站的目标是为有才华的本科生在感觉运动神经工程中心（CSNE）提供一个精心指导的研究经验。每个本科生在进行一个研究项目时，将与一名研究生或博士后导师和一名教师组成一个合作团队。该小组将把重点放在一个CSNE项目上，该项目被精心挑选为跨学科生物科学和工程研究的一个好例子，并且与工业利益有联系。学生们还将参加每周一次的交流课程和日记俱乐部，学习口头表达和写作技巧。每位学生将被要求撰写一篇期刊风格的研究报告，并在一个小型研讨会上口头和海报展示他们的夏季研究。重点将放在从代表性不足的群体中招收学生。NSF BIO项目提供的通用评估工具将用于评估REU项目。学生在项目结束后需要被跟踪，并且必须回复通过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PI （Eric H. Chudler博士chudler@u.washington.edu）或co-PI （Thomas Daniel博士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).