REU SITE: Research in Consumer Networking Technologies

这笔资金更新了密苏里州-哥伦比亚大学的本科生研究经验（REU）网站。本科生将参与夏季研究，涉及消费者网络中各种有趣和具有挑战性的技术问题。 经验丰富的教师导师将领导五个主要研究领域的项目，包括软件定义网络，社交媒体计算，老年人护理社交健康网络，身体区域感知和情感识别，以及网络性能优化。 学生将参加教师导师正在进行的资助研究，调查技术上具有挑战性的问题，并制定可行的解决方案和见解。他们将有机会在大学，国家和国际层面的各种场所展示他们的研究成果。 该网站将专注于招收非博士授予机构的学生，特别强调密苏里州及其周边地区的机构。该项目的智力价值在于领导一个经验丰富的研究小组，在研究领域具有出色的专业知识和经验。研究活动将导致更好地了解众多的效率，性能，可靠性，可扩展性和安全问题以及新兴消费者网络技术的权衡。物联网和软件等未来互联网技术的融合方式-REU网站中定义的网络将促进高级消费者网络服务和应用的快速部署，这些服务和应用对社会计算和医疗保健等领域的经济和生活质量具有重要意义。更广泛的影响包括为研究机会有限的本科生提供独特的机会，以体验消费者网络跨学科领域的研究。项目小组计划利用已经建立的招聘网络，接触目标学生，并鼓励女工程师和代表性不足的少数民族以及以本科院校为主的学生提出申请。由于日常生活和令人兴奋的消费者网络技术之间的密切互动，该计划应该引起本科生的极大兴趣。研究经验为学生提供深入了解高级学位的要求，通过与教师导师和研究生密切合作，并可能导致学生最终追求高级学位，并在科学和工程实现职业生涯。由外部评估专家进行的专业评估应有助于教育研究有效的结构，让本科生参与研究。

This funding renews a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the University of Missouri - Columbia. Undergraduate students will engage in summer research involving a variety of interesting and challenging technical issues in consumer networking. Experienced faculty mentors will lead projects in five major research areas including software defined networking, social media computing, social health networking for eldercare, body-area sensing and emotion recognition, and network performance optimization. The students will participate in the faculty mentors' on-going funded research, investigate technically challenging issues, and develop viable solutions and insights. They will have opportunities to present their research results at various venues at the university, national, and international levels. The site will focus on recruiting students from non-PhD granting institutions with particular emphasis on institutions in and around the state of Missouri.The intellectual merit of the project rests with the leadership an experienced research group with excellent expertise and experience in the research area. The research activities will lead to a better understanding of the multitude of efficiency, performance, reliability, scalability, and security issues and tradeoffs in emerging consumer networking technologies. The approach of integrating future Internet technologies such as Internet-of-Things and software-defined networking in the REU Site will foster the rapid deployment of advanced consumer networking services and applications that are of significance to the economy and quality of life in areas such as social computing and health care.The broader impacts include providing a unique opportunity for undergraduate students with limited research opportunities to experience research in the interdisciplinary areas of consumer networking. With an already established recruitment network, the project team plans to reach the targeted students and encourage applications from women engineers and under-represented minorities as well as students from predominantly undergraduate institutions. The program should be of great interest to undergraduate students due to its close interaction between daily life and exciting consumer networking technologies. The research experiences offer students insight into the requirements of advanced degrees by closely working with faculty mentors and graduate students, and may lead to students ultimately pursuing advanced degrees and fulfilling careers in science and engineering. The professional evaluation by an external assessment specialist should contribute to educational research on effective structures for involving undergraduates in research.