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

研究实验室不再是装满试管或显微镜的房间；计算机占据了中心舞台，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，依赖于软件，其中一些是从现有代码编写或采用的。然而，该软件主要是由未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，但结构不佳、文档编制良好、健壮或可重用。为了促进科学进步，孵化一个使用软件、包容、创新、跨学科和开放科学的新领袖社区(INCLUDE)项目让一群高度积极和多样化的学生沉浸在一个指导研究过程中，使他们能够体验发现的刺激，并接受科学家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追求研究职业，并为他们提供技能和知识，为他们进入研究生和就业机会做好准备，在那里他们将有助于促进国家健康、繁荣和福利，并确保国防安全。Include对学生进行软件技能培训，利用并建立在最新课程的基础上。这些学生在跨学科的社会影响力研究项目上与导师成对合作，这些项目开发和使用广泛的STEM领域的开放源码软件。他们的工作可以带来研究进展，该项目为更大的科学界贡献了开源工具，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工作做好准备，通过参与研究增加STEM渠道的多样性。INCLUSION是一个为期10周的暑期项目，包括一般的研究中软件培训和有重点的研究项目。其目标是：1)通过至少两名来自不同学科的伊利诺伊大学教职员工的指导，通过成对的学生参与科学调查，刺激不同学生群体的研究生学习；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)促进学生机构与伊利诺伊大学教职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)为科学和工程研究界开发文件齐全、经过测试的软件；以及5)建立跨文化能力，使少数族裔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的代表不足的群体的本科生，重点是少数族裔服务机构。导师培养建立正式和非正式指导关系的技能。这些学生参加研究和专业发展活动，旨在实现留住和毕业理工科本科生的目标，这些本科生可能没有在自己的机构获得类似研究经验的机会。具有挑战性的研究问题促使学生指导研究技能的发展：调查、演示和发表：由导师一对一的介绍过渡到学生主导的演讲，并在暑期或暑期结束时以出版物和会议经验结束。

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.