REU Site: Enhancing Undergraduate Experience in Mobile Cloud Computing

该奖项资助天普大学本科生研究经验（REU）网站。每年夏天，一群本科生将与天普学院的教师组成小组，设计、实施和评估涉及移动计算、无线通信和云计算的研究项目。移动云计算是一个新兴的研究领域，引起了学生和业界的兴趣。研究项目涉及小型移动设备，如智能手机，由丰富的云资源授权，用于探索新颖的应用，如众包和参与式传感。因此，学生和研究人员有机会探索对我们所有公民都重要、及时和相关的问题。该项目旨在培养人类在计算机和通信研究和知识方面的能力。该项目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，并继续给予他们追求这些选择的信心，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年制和4年制院校招募学生，并将特别寻找在计算机领域代表性不足的群体的学生。学生将参加专业发展活动，使他们更加了解研究生院和计算机职业的专业方面。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最先进的设施，并与经验丰富的教师团队互动，对我们社会中日益普及的新兴技术进行具有挑战性的及时研究。

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.