REU Site: The Lehigh Smart Spaces Project

利哈伊大学的REU网站专注于让学生参与智能空间研究。学生项目包括在住宅和商业空间节能技术的发展。 研究还将支持以家庭为中心的辅助生活和医疗保健方法。 这有可能使老年人和残疾人能够更长时间地保持独立。 独立不仅提高了生活质量，而且由于美国人口年龄的变化，也带来了重大的积极财政影响。 对于参与者，学生将从本科STEM研究机会有限的机构在全国范围内招募，重点是区域宾夕法尼亚州高等教育系统（PASSHE）大学。重点是从传统上在计算机科学中代表性不足的群体中招募，包括低收入和第一代大学生，代表性不足的少数民族和妇女。最后，该项目将加强利哈伊大学自己的多样性举措-特别是卡尔格里尔学者计划和与当地社区学院的衔接协议-以增加工程领域女性和代表性不足的少数民族的数量。 每年，10名本科生参加一项研究经验，调查智能环境领域的问题。 在网络环境中集成无处不在的计算，传感和执行器，学生直接与计算机科学教师合作，以提高空间的效率和有效性。其目标是促进本科和部门内的研究，以提高学生的毕业后的成果与补充专业发展研讨会系列，并增加学生的数量追求研究生教育。该项目的智力价值在于研究的跨学科性质和物理站点本身。 学生将直接与11名教师（包括6名NSF CAREER奖获得者）在一系列研究课题上进行互动，包括：3-D增强现实，环境智能，能源感知空间的数据分析，计算机视觉，嵌入式设备，移动的计算，网络和安全，机器人技术和用户界面设计。在利哈伊的山顶校园的物理站点的庞大规模也有助于其研究潜力。它占地120，000平方英尺，支持在真实环境中进行大规模开发，而不是将此类问题限制在模拟中。物理场地的另一个独特之处是项目有可能融入建筑的基础设施，创造出同类最大的智能空间之一。更多信息可在项目网站上找到：http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/smartspaces。

The REU Site at Lehigh University focuses on engaging students in Smart Spaces research. Student projects include the development of technologies for saving energy in both residential and commercial spaces. Research will also support home-centered approaches to assisted living and healthcare. This has the potential to enable elderly and persons with disabilities to maintain their independence longer. Independence brings not only improved quality of life, but also significant positive financial implications due to the changing age demographic in the United States. For the participants, students will be recruited nationally from institutions where undergraduate STEM research opportunities are limited, with an emphasis on regional Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) universities. Emphasis is made to recruit from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in computer science, to include low-income and first-generation college students, underrepresented minorities, and women. Lastly, the project will reinforce Lehigh University's own diversity initiatives - specifically, the Carl Greer Scholars program and articulation agreements with local community colleges - to increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities in engineering. Each year, ten undergraduate students participate in a research experience investigating problems in the area of smart environments. Integrating ubiquitous computing, sensing, and actuators in a networked environment, students work directly with computer science faculty to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the space. The objectives are to foster both undergraduate and intra-departmental research, to improve students' post-graduation outcomes with a complementary professional development seminar series, and to increase the number of students pursuing graduate education. The intellectual merit of the project lies in both the interdisciplinary nature of the research and the physical site itself. Students will directly interact with eleven faculty members (including 6 NSF CAREER Award recipients) across a range of research topics, to include: 3-D augmented reality, ambient intelligence, data analytics for energy-aware spaces, computer vision, embedded devices, mobile computing, networking and security, robotics, and user interface design. The sheer size of the physical site at Lehigh's Mountaintop Campus also contributes to its research potential. At 120,000 square feet, it supports large-scale development in a real-world environment, rather than constraining such problems to simulation. Another unique aspect of the physical site is the potential for projects to be integrated into the building's infrastructure, creating one of the largest smart spaces of its kind. More information can be found at the project web site: http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/smartspaces.