REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley-Information Technology for Sustainability (SUPERB-ITS)

该奖项更新了加州大学伯克利分校的本科生研究体验(REU)网站。拟议研究的智力重点是通过高效地提取、分配和使用能源来实现可持续性的信息技术。该网站每年将聚集8名本科生，他们将与教师导师一起参与一系列基于能源和可持续发展主题的项目。该网站专注于招收足够多样化的学生，包括女性和代表性不足的少数民族。该提案的主要智力优势是旨在优化能源消耗从而促进可持续发展的创新项目。例如：(A)建筑系统的最佳控制；(B)高能效的空中交通管制；(C)高能效、功率比例的数据中心；(D)智能建筑基础设施的能源管理系统。另一项单独的工作将考虑如何在存在低能耗设备的情况下保持性能加速，因为性能和能耗通常是相反的。学生将接受教师和研究生的指导，并接触到研究过程的方方面面。该项目的更广泛影响是对发展面向21世纪的优化能源基础设施这一重大国家挑战的技术贡献。这些项目旨在找到减少能源浪费支出的方法，并以有效的方式管理能源系统。因此，该项目可以对环境产生积极影响，从而提高生活质量。此外，该项目还培训了一批不同的本科生，包括女性和代表性不足的少数民族、社会经济地位较低的学生以及美国武装部队的退伍军人，以获得基础研究和解决问题的技能。由于拟议的活动针对的是关键的国家问题，学生将受到启发，通过加深他们的理解来为解决这些问题做出贡献，这反过来将导致他们攻读科学和工程方面的高级学位。

This award renews a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of California, Berkeley. The intellectual focus of the proposed research is information technology for sustainability through the efficient extraction, distribution and use of energy. The site will bring together a cohort of 8 undergraduate students per year who, together with faculty mentors, will participate in a range of projects based on the energy and sustainability theme. The site focuses on recruiting a sufficiently diverse pool of students, including women and underrepresented minorities.The main intellectual merit of the proposal is the innovative projects designed to optimize energy consumption and thereby promote sustainability. Example projects are (a) optimal control of building systems; (b) energy efficient air traffic control; (c) energy efficient, power proportional data centers; and (d) energy management systems for smart building infrastructures. A separate strand of work will consider how to retain performance speedups in the presence of low energy devices since often performance and energy consumption are inversely related. Students will be mentored by both faculty and graduate students and will be exposed to all aspects of the research process. The project's broader impacts are technological contributions to the significant national challenge of developing an optimized energy infrastructure for the 21st century. The projects are designed to find ways of reducing wasteful expenditure of energy and to manage energy systems in an efficient way. Thus the project can have a positive impact on the environment, which will lead to an improved quality of life. Moreover, the project trains a diverse pool of undergraduate students including women and underrepresented minorities, students of low socioeconomic status, as well as veterans of the US Armed Services, in acquiring basic research and problem solving skills. Because the proposed activities address critical national problems, students will be inspired to contribute to solutions to these problems by deepening their understanding which, in turn, will lead to their pursuing advanced degrees in science and engineering