REU Site: Wireless Technologies for Health Applications

该项目更广泛的意义：REU网站的工作将把10名本科生(主要是一年级或二年级结束时)带到弗吉尼亚大学，进行为期八周的、有凝聚力的、积极指导的暑期研究体验。它旨在促进这些学生的专业、社交和认知发展，鼓励他们考虑从事工程工作，并帮助创造更多样化的劳动力。为了确保申请者群体的多样性，招聘工作将集中在HBCU、女子学院、残疾人机构和研究能力不是很高的机构(即社区学院、文科学院)。这个REU网站有可能让学生参与到解决21世纪的关键挑战之一的探索中：提高医疗保健的质量，同时使其更容易获得和负担得起。此外，该REU网站将有助于在科学和工程领域建立更多样化的劳动力队伍，为妇女、代表性不足的少数族裔学生和残疾人提供成熟型研究经验，并将他们与社会和专业网络联系起来，作为在这些领域就业的途径。无线健康REU网站将扩展学生的科学知识，更广泛地说，教学生如何构建问题，设计实验，合作工作，进行观察，得出适当的结论，并将他们的结果传达给其他人。项目描述：无线健康REU网站，在NSF工程教育和中心部门的支持下，将在弗吉尼亚大学招收10名正在崛起的二年级和三年级本科生，进行为期八周的密集研究项目，重点是用于健康应用的无线技术跨学科领域。利用无线网络、集成电路、传感、信号处理、通信、数据挖掘和数据库的进步，无线健康技术将实现对健康和健康应用的持续、纵向、远程监测，范围从早期疾病诊断和就地老龄化支持到慢性护理和一般健康管理。在参与由教师、博士后学者和研究生导师设计并积极指导的尖端研究项目之前，REU参与者将参与多平台学习，包括在线课程和实验室技能“训练营”。在三年的时间里，学生们将共同开发一种身体传感器网络试验台，该试验台的技术范围从较低级别的设备设计到较高级别的网络协议。项目将与年度主题协调，以建立群体凝聚力，并允许更复杂的合作，如下所示：第一年-家庭健康监测系统；第二年-基于智能手机的传感器；以及第三年-与健康相关的行为修改。除了研究活动，本科生参与者还将参加专业发展系列活动、杂志俱乐部，以及实地考察无线健康技术正在开发和应用于现实世界的地区。这一经历的高潮是一次研讨会，每个学生都会口头和海报展示他或她的研究成果。该REU旨在为处于本科职业生涯战略节点的学生提供具有凝聚力的研究和职业提升体验，以培养一支更加多元化和为21世纪做好准备的工程劳动力。

BROADER SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROJECT:This REU Site effort will bring 10 undergraduate students, primarily at the end of their first or second year, to the University of Virginia for an eight-week, cohesive, actively mentored, summer research experience. It is designed to promote the professional, social, and cognitive development of these students, to encourage them to consider careers in engineering, and to help create a more diverse workforce. In order to ensure a diverse applicant body, recruitment efforts will be focused on HBCU's, women's colleges, institutions for individuals with disabilities, and institutions with less than very high research capabilities (i.e. community colleges, liberal arts colleges). This REU Site has the potential to engage students in the quest to address one of the key challenges of the 21st century: improving the quality of health care while making it more accessible and affordable. In addition, this REU Site will help create a more diverse workforce in science and engineering, providing women, underrepresented minority students, and persons with disabilities formative research experiences and connecting them to the social and professional networks as pathways for careers in these fields. The Wireless Health REU Site will expand the students' scientific knowledge and, more generally, teach students how to frame problems, design experiments, work collaboratively, make observations, draw appropriate conclusions, and communicate their results to others.PROJECT DESCRIPTION:The Wireless Health REU Site, with support from NSF's Division of Engineering Education and Centers, will host ten rising second and third year undergraduate students at the University of Virginia for an intensive eight-week research program focused on the interdisciplinary field of wireless technologies for health applications. Drawing on advances in wireless networks, integrated circuits, sensing, signal processing, communications, data mining, and databases, Wireless Health technologies will enable continuous, longitudinal, remote monitoring for health and wellness applications, ranging from early disease diagnosis and aging-in-place support to chronic care and general wellness management. REU participants will participate in multi-platform learning, including online coursework and a lab skills "bootcamp", before they engage in cutting edge research projects designed and actively-mentored by faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate student mentors. Over the three years, students will work collectively to develop a body sensor network testbed that spans technology from lower-level device designs to higher-level networking protocols. Projects will be coordinated with overarching yearly themes to build cohort cohesion and allow for more sophisticated collaborations as follows: Year 1- Home Health Monitoring Systems; Year 2- Smartphone Based Sensors; and Year 3- Health Related Behavior Modifications. In addition to research activities, undergraduate participants will take part in a professional development series, journal club, and field trips to areas where wireless health technologies are being developed and used in the real world. The culmination of this experience is a symposium where each student presents oral and poster presentations of his or her research findings. This REU aims to provide a cohesive research and career enhancement experience for students at a strategic point in their undergraduate careers in order to develop a more diversified and prepared for 21st century engineering workforce.