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

REU 网站：包容性 - 利用软件、包容性、创新、跨学科和开放科学孵化新的领导者社区

• 批准号: 1659702
• 负责人: Daniel Katz
• 金额: $ 36万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-03-01 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1659702&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; INCLUSION; Incubating; New

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.

研究实验室不再是装满试管或显微镜的房间;计算机已经占据了中心舞台，所有领域的研究都变得越来越数字化。这项研究，包括建模，仿真，数据收集和数据分析是依赖于软件，其中一些是编写或采用现有的代码。然而，这些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，这导致软件功能强大，但结构不合理，文档不完整，不健壮或可重用。 为了促进科学的进步，孵化一个新的领导者社区使用软件，包容性，创新，跨学科和开放科学（INCLUSION）项目沉浸在一个指导性的研究过程中，使他们能够体验发现的快感，并采用科学家的角色作为一个真正属于他们的角色。它旨在激励学生使用开源软件从事研究事业，并为他们提供技能和知识，为他们的研究生院和就业机会做好准备，在那里他们将帮助促进国家健康，繁荣和福利，并确保国防。 INCLUSION培训学生对软件技能的利用和建立在国家的最先进的经验教训。学生们与成对的导师合作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。他们的工作可以导致研究的进步，该项目为更大的科学界贡献了开源工具，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周的暑期课程，包括通用软件研究培训和重点研究项目。其目标是：1）通过在至少两名来自不同学科的伊利诺伊大学教师的指导下，让学生参与科学调查，刺激多元化学生的研究生入学; 2）培养学生将开源软件（OSS）技术应用于现实世界问题的能力; 3）促进学生的机构和伊利诺伊大学教师，员工和学生之间的合作关系，并为未来的合作研究提供基础; 4）为科学和工程研究社区开发有据可查和经过测试的软件; 5）建立跨文化能力，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。 INCLUSION学生是来自所有类型机构的代表性不足的群体的本科生，专注于少数民族服务机构。 导师开发创建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，旨在实现保留和毕业的本科生在科学和工程谁可能没有类似的机会在自己的机构的研究经验的目标。解决研究问题促使学生指导研究技能的发展：调查，演示和出版：导师一对一的介绍过渡到学生主导的会谈，并在夏季或之后以出版物和会议经验达到高潮。

项目成果

Introduction to Moltres: An application for simulation of Molten Salt Reactors

• DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2017.12.025
• 发表时间: 2018-04
• 期刊: Annals of Nuclear Energy
• 影响因子: 1.9
• 作者: A. Lindsay;G. Ridley;Andrei Rykhlevskii;K. Huff

AGNet: Weighing Black Holes with Machine Learning

• 发表时间: 2020-11
• 期刊: ArXiv
• 作者: J. Lin;S. Pandya;Devanshi Pratap;Xin Liu;M. Kind

Fusing numerical relativity and deep learning to detect higher-order multipole waveforms from eccentric binary black hole mergers

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.100.044025
• 发表时间: 2018-07
• 期刊: Physical Review D
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: A. Rebei;E. Huerta;Si-Yang Wang;Sarah Habib;R. Haas;Daniel Johnson;D. George

Crowd-Sourced Data and Analysis Tools for Advancing the Chemical Vapor Deposition of Graphene: Implications for Manufacturing

促进石墨烯化学气相沉积的众包数据和分析工具：对制造业的影响

• DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.0c02018
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: ACS Applied Nano Materials
• 影响因子: 5.9
• 作者: Schiller, Joshua A.;Toro, Ricardo;Shah, Aagam;Surana, Mitisha;Zhang, Kaihao;Robertson, Matthew;Miller, Kristina;Cruse, Kevin;Liu, Kevin;Seong, Bomsaerah
• 通讯作者: Seong, Bomsaerah

Characterization of numerical relativity waveforms of eccentric binary black hole mergers

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.100.044016
• 发表时间: 2019-04
• 期刊: Physical Review D
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Sarah Habib;E. Huerta