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

该奖项更新了德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的本科生（REU）网站的典型研究经验，该网站专注于无线网络和通信。 REU网站吸引来自全国各地机构的本科生参与由无线网络和通信集团的大型教师导师团队领导的无线网络项目。这些项目是在当前的研究领域，是感兴趣的广大社区，并有明确的实际应用。每个研究项目的一个关键组成部分是其可扩展性，为学生提供能力，以建立在他们的导师提供给他们的知识，并产生独立的结果，并保持这种努力后，返回他们的上级机构。该奖项由网络技术和系统（NetTS）计划共同资助。该项目的智力价值在于强大的研究基础和教师的专业知识。研究项目是作为一个有针对性的计划，以引导学生从被动的学习状态，成为积极的自我维持的研究者的状态。一个全国性的招聘过程是用来选择本科生的队列参加在主办机构为期九周的夏季研究计划。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讲习班，学生演示，实地考察和其他专业发展机会。 我们的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.