REU SITE: Research Experiences in Information Centric Engineering (ICE)

非技术性总结：信息技术（IT）实践继续在全球范围内革新工程实践。这个REU项目旨在为本科生提供研究经验，鼓励他们在工程中以IT为导向的方法进行研究。这个新兴的信息中心工程领域为众多工业应用提供了巨大的潜力。随着这些做法变得越来越普遍，将有一个更大的需要，以揭露和鼓励学生在我们的国家追求研究生的职业生涯在这些重要领域。本科工程和科学的学生应该准备面向信息技术的世纪参与这种信息为中心的研究活动。 参与的学生将从全国范围内的申请者中招募，重点是招募身体有挑战的学生以及少数民族学生，包括非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔，美洲原住民和女性学生。我们计划与各种少数民族工程组织和大学合作，以确定学生申请人的多元化池。 学生还将有机会与微组装和医疗手术领域的行业合作伙伴进行互动。作为项目活动的一部分，将为参与者提供研讨会，概述研究生课程和职业，包括准备进入研究生院的考试。这一创新项目的成果将通过在国家工程会议上组织的特别小组讨论和论文会议加以强调。该项目由美国国家科学基金会工程教育和中心部资助。技术概要：本科生研究经验（REU）网站项目的总体目标是为新一代的工程师和科学家提供信息中心工程和数字制造领域的有意义的研究经验。这些研究经验提供给本科生将鼓励他们对研究生课程和研究生涯在这些前沿的研究领域。 该项目的研究活动包括数字制造方法的设计（包括基于虚拟现实的环境，以研究微型器械组装领域的微型夹持和组装）以及虚拟手术环境的设计，以帮助培训外科医生的手术过程。由于我们的REU计划涉及IT和数字制造主题，因此将此重点称为“信息中心工程”（ICE）。

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY:Information Technology (IT) practices continue to revolutionize engineering practices worldwide. This REU project seeks to provide research experiences to undergraduate students to encourage them towards research careers in IT oriented approaches in engineering. This emerging field of Information Centric Engineering holds tremendous potential for numerous industrial applications. As these practices become more commonplace, there will be a greater need to expose and encourage students in our nation to pursue graduate careers in these areas of importance. Undergraduate engineering and science students should be prepared for the IT oriented 21st century by being involved in such Information centric research activities. The participating students will be recruited from a pool of applicants nationwide with an emphasis on recruiting students with physical challenges as well as minority students including African American, Hispanic, Native American and Women students. We plan to work with various minority engineering organizations and universities to identify a diverse pool of student applicants. Students will also be provided opportunities to interact with industry partners in the fields of micro assembly and medical surgery. As part of project activities, seminars will be offered to participants outlining graduate programs and careers including preparing for exams to enter graduate school. The outcomes of this innovative project will be highlighted through special panel and paper sessions organized at national engineering conferences. This project is funded by the NSF Division of Engineering Education and Centers.TECHNICAL SUMMARY:The overall goal of this Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site project is to provide meaningful research experiences in Information Centric Engineering and Digital Manufacturing in emerging process domains to a new generation of engineers and scientists. These research experiences provided to undergraduate students will encourage them towards graduate programs and research careers in these leading edge research areas. Research activities in this project including design of Digital Manufacturing approaches (including Virtual Reality based environments to study micro gripping and assembly in the domain of Micro devices assembly) as well as design of Virtual Surgical environments to help train surgeons in surgical processes. As our REU initiative deals with IT and Digital Manufacturing themes, this emphasis is termed as "Information Centric Engineering" (ICE).