REU Site: Enhancing Undergraduate Experience in Mobile Cloud Computing

该奖项资助坦普尔大学本科生研究经验（REU）网站。每年夏天，一批本科生将与坦普尔教师以小组形式合作，设计、实施和评估涉及移动的计算、无线通信和云计算的研究项目。移动的云计算是一个新兴的研究领域，学生和行业都很感兴趣。这些研究项目涉及小型移动的设备，如智能手机，这些设备由云的丰富资源授权，用于探索众包和参与式传感等新应用。 因此，学生和研究人员有机会探索重要，及时和相关的问题，我们所有的公民。 该项目培养人在计算和通信研究和知识方面的能力。该计划将为本科生提供经验，这些经验可能会影响他们对继续教育和未来职业的选择，并继续让他们有信心追求这些选择，从而增加科学劳动力的规模和多样性。该网站将专注于从费城附近的2年和4年制院校招收学生，并将特别寻求来自计算领域代表性不足的群体的学生。 学生将参加专业发展活动，使他们更了解研究生院和计算机职业生涯的专业方面。学生还可以访问内部超级计算机和云集群。 因此，学生将能够使用大学提供的最先进的设施，并与经验丰富的教师团队进行互动，对我们社会中日益普及的新兴技术进行具有挑战性和及时的研究。

This award funds a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at Temple University. Each summer a cohort of undergraduate students will work with Temple faculty in small groups to design, implement, and evaluate research projects involving mobile computing, wireless communication, and cloud computing. Mobile cloud computing is an emerging research area and of interest to students as well as industry. The research projects involve small, mobile devices such as smartphones empowered by the abundant resources of the cloud for exploration of novel applications such as crowdsourcing and participatory sensing. Thus the students and researchers have the opportunity to explore problems that are important and timely and relevant to all our citizens. This project builds human capacity in computing and communications research and knowledge. The program will provide experiences to undergraduate students that may influence their choices about further education and future careers and continue to give them confidence to pursue these choices and thus increase the size and diversity of the scientific workforce. The site will focus on recruiting students from 2 and 4 year institutions near Philadelphia and will particularly seek students from groups under-represented in computing fields. The students will participate in professional development activities that make them more aware of graduate school and professional aspects of a computing career. Students will also have access to and internal supercomputer and cloud cluster. Thus the students will be able to use the state-of-the-art facilities available at the university and interact with an experienced faculty team to conduct challenging and timely research on emerging technologies that are becoming pervasive in our society.