REU SITE: Research in Consumer Networking Technologies

这笔资金更新了密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校的本科生研究体验(REU)网站。本科生将参与暑期研究，涉及消费者网络中各种有趣且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，包括软件定义的网络、社交媒体计算、面向老年人的社交健康网络、身体区域感知和情感识别以及网络性能优化。学生将参与教师导师正在进行的资助研究，调查具有技术挑战性的问题，并开发可行的解决方案和见解。他们将有机会在大学、国家和国际层面的不同场所展示他们的研究成果。该网站将重点招收非授予博士学位的机构的学生，重点是密苏里州及其周围的机构。该项目的智力价值取决于领导层，一个在研究领域拥有出色专业知识和经验的经验丰富的研究小组。研究活动将有助于更好地了解新兴消费者网络技术中的众多效率、性能、可靠性、可扩展性和安全问题及其权衡。在REU网站整合物联网和软件定义网络等未来互联网技术的方法将促进先进的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一个独特的机会，体验消费者网络跨学科领域的研究。在已经建立了招聘网络的情况下，项目组计划接触到目标学生，并鼓励女工程师和代表性不足的少数群体以及以本科为主的机构的学生申请。由于日常生活与激动人心的消费者网络技术之间的密切互动，该课程应该会引起本科生的极大兴趣。这些研究经验让学生通过与教师导师和研究生的密切合作，深入了解高级学位的要求，并可能最终导致学生攻读高级学位并在科学和工程领域实现职业生涯。由外部评估专家进行的专业评估应有助于教育研究使本科生参与研究的有效结构。

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.