REU Site: INCLUSION - Incubating a New Community of Leaders Using Software, Inclusion, Innovation, Interdisciplinary and OpeN-Science

研究实验室不再是摆满试管和显微镜的房间；计算机已经占据了中心舞台，各个领域的研究也越来越数字化。这项研究，包括建模、仿真、数据收集和数据分析都依赖于软件，其中一些是由现有代码编写或采用的。然而，这种软件主要是由没有受过软件开发培训的研究人员开发和使用的，导致软件功能齐全，但没有良好的结构、良好的文档、健壮性或可重用性。为了促进科学的进步，“利用软件、包容、创新、跨学科和开放科学（Inclusion）培养一个新的领导者社区”项目让一群积极主动、多样化的学生沉浸在一个有指导的研究过程中，使他们能够体验发现的兴奋，并将科学家的角色视为真正属于他们的角色。它旨在激励学生利用开源软件从事研究事业，并为他们提供研究生院和就业机会所需的技能和知识，从而有助于促进国家的健康、繁荣和福利，并确保国防安全。“包容”对学生进行软件技能培训，利用和构建最先进的课程。学生们与导师一起进行跨学科的具有社会影响力的研究项目，这些项目在各种STEM领域开发和使用开源软件。他们的工作可以带来研究的进步，并且该项目为更大的科学社区贡献了开源工具，从而带来了更多的进步。通过这样做，INCLUSION为本科生研究人员提供跨学科培训，促进学生的专业成长，并为他们进入STEM工作场所做好准备，通过参与研究增加STEM管道的多样性。INCLUSION是一个为期10周的暑期项目，包括一般的研究软件培训和重点研究项目。它的目标是：1)通过在至少两名来自不同学科的伊利诺伊大学教员的指导下，让成对的学生参与科学调查，促进多元化学生群体的研究生学习；2)培养学生应用开源软件（OSS）技术解决现实问题的能力；3)促进学生所在机构与伊利诺伊大学教职员工和学生之间的合作关系，为未来的合作研究提供基础；4)为科学和工程研究界开发良好的文档和测试软件；5)培养跨文化能力，使少数民族和代表性不足的学生在全球市场上具有竞争力。包容性学生是来自所有类型机构中代表性不足的群体的本科生，重点是少数民族服务机构。导师培养建立正式和非正式指导关系的技能。学生参加研究和专业发展活动，旨在实现留住和毕业的理工科本科生的目标，这些本科生在自己的机构可能没有类似的研究经历机会。具有挑战性的研究问题促使学生引导研究技能的发展：调查，演讲和出版：导师一对一的介绍过渡到学生主导的会谈，并在夏季期间或之后以出版物和会议经验告终。

Research laboratories are no longer rooms full of test tubes or microscopes; computers have taken center stage and research across all fields is becoming increasingly digital. This research, including modeling, simulation, data collection, and data analysis is dependent on software, some of which is written or adopted from existing code. However, this software is mostly developed and used by researchers who are not trained in software development, leading to software that is functional but not well-structured, well-documented, robust, or reusable. To promote the progress of science, the Incubating a New Community of Leaders Using Software, Inclusion, Innovation, Interdisciplinary and Open Science (INCLUSION) project immerses a highly motivated and diverse cohort of students in a guided research process that enables them to experience the thrill of discovery and to adopt the role of scientists as one which is authentically theirs. It aims to inspire students to pursue research careers using open source software and equips them with the skills and knowledge to prepare them for graduate school and employment opportunities, where they will help advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare, and secure the national defense. INCLUSION trains pairs of students in software skills leveraging and building upon state-of-art lessons. The students work with pairs of mentors on interdisciplinary socially-impactful research projects that develop and use open source software across a wide variety of STEM fields. Their work can lead to research advances and the project contributes open source tools to the larger scientific community, leading to additional advances. By doing so, INCLUSION provides interdisciplinary training for undergraduate researchers, facilitates students' professional growth, and prepares them for the STEM workplace, increasing diversity in the STEM pipeline through engagement in research.INCLUSION is a 10-week summer program comprising general software-in-research training and focused research projects. Its goals are to: 1) Stimulate enrollment in graduate studies of a diverse student body through involvement of pairs of students in scientific investigation under the mentorship of at least two University of Illinois faculty members from different disciplines; 2) Develop students' ability to apply open source software (OSS) technologies to real-world problems; 3) Promote collaborative ties between the student's institution and University of Illinois faculty, staff and students and provide a basis for future collaborative studies; 4) Develop well documented and tested software for the science and engineering research community; and 5) Build intercultural competences that make minority and underrepresented students competitive in the global marketplace. INCLUSION students are undergraduates from underrepresented groups from all types of institutions, focused on Minority Serving Institutions. Mentors develop skills for creating both formal and informal mentoring relationships. The students participate in research and professional development activities that are designed to achieve the goal of retaining and graduating undergraduate students in science and engineering who might not have similar opportunities for research experiences at their own institutions. Challenging research problems prompt students' guided development of research skills: investigation, presentation, and publication: one-on-one introductions by mentors transition to student-led talks and culminate with publications and conference experiences during or after the summer.