REU Site: EURECA: Extensible Undergraduate Research Experience in Communications and Applications

该奖项更新了一个典型的本科生研究经验（REU）网站，该网站专注于德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的无线网络和通信。REU网站吸引来自全国各院校的本科生参与无线网络的广泛项目，这些项目由无线网络和通信组的一大组教师导师领导。这些项目都是当前的研究领域，是整个社区感兴趣的，并且具有明确的实际应用。每个研究项目的一个关键组成部分是它的可扩展性，让学生有能力在导师提供给他们的知识基础上发展，并产生独立的结果，并在回到母校后继续努力。该奖项由网络技术和系统（NeTS）项目共同资助。这个项目的智力价值在于强大的研究基础和教师的专业知识。研究项目是一个有重点的计划，引导学生从被动的学习状态到主动的自我维持的研究状态。一个全国性的招聘过程被用来选择本科生群体，参加在主办机构为期九周的暑期研究项目。特别强调从代表性不足的人口中招收学生。该项目包括技术研讨会和工作坊、学生演讲、实地考察和其他专业发展机会。目标是在本科生中产生持续的研究兴趣，使他们成为未来工业界和学术界的领导者。

This award renews an exemplary Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on wireless networking and communications at the University of Texas - Austin. The REU Site engages undergraduate students from institutions across the nation in a wide range of projects in wireless networking lead by a large team of faculty mentors in the Wireless Networking and Communications Group. The projects are in current research areas that are of interest to the community at large and that have clear practical applications. A key component of every research project is its extensibility providing students with the capacity to build on knowledge provided to them by their mentor and to generate independent results, and to sustain this effort after returning to their parent institutions. This award is co-funded by the Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) program.The intellectual merit of this project lies in strong research basis and the expertise of the faculty. The research projects are created as a focused plan to guide the students from a passive learning state to the state of being active self-sustaining researchers. A nationwide recruitment process is used to select cohorts of undergraduate students to participate in a nine-week summer research program at the host institution. Particular emphasis is placed on recruitment of students from under-represented populations. The project includes technical seminars and workshops, student presentations, and field trips and other professional development opportunities. The goal is to generate sustained research interest among undergraduates so that they become tomorrow's leaders in industry and academia.