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的研究。学生项目包括住宅和商业空间节能技术的开发。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，也对经济产生了重大的积极影响。对于参与者来说，学生将从全国范围内本科STEM研究机会有限的机构中招募，重点是宾夕法尼亚州立高等教育系统（PASSHE）地区大学。重点是从传统上在计算机科学领域代表性不足的群体中招聘，包括低收入和第一代大学生、代表性不足的少数民族和女性。最后，该项目将加强理哈伊大学自身的多样性倡议，特别是卡尔·格里尔学者计划和与当地社区学院的合作协议，以增加工程领域女性和代表性不足的少数族裔的人数。每年有10名本科生参加研究体验，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一起工作，以提高空间的效率和有效性。目的是促进本科生和系内的研究，通过互补性的专业发展系列研讨会，提高学生毕业后的成果，并增加攻读研究生教育的学生人数。该项目的智力价值在于研究的跨学科性质和物理地点本身。学生将直接与11位教师（包括6位NSF CAREER奖获得者）就一系列研究课题进行互动，包括：3d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，移动计算，网络和安全，机器人和用户界面设计。里海大学山顶校区的庞大物理场地也有助于其研究潜力。它占地12万平方英尺，支持在现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在于，项目有可能整合到建筑的基础设施中，创造出同类中最大的智能空间之一。更多信息可以在项目网站上找到：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.