REU Site: Next-generation health monitoring systems with flexible electronics, novel algorithms and secure communication.

华盛顿大学博塞尔分校（UWB）的本科生研究体验（REU）站点，具有柔性电子，新颖算法和安全通信的下一代健康监测系统，将吸引不同群体的本科生参与跨学科和合作研究，由在生物医学工程，信号处理和数据安全方面具有不同但互补专业的教师监督。这个REU网站的主要目标之一是增加女性，代表性不足的少数民族和第一代学生在电气工程和计算机科学本科研究中的参与。这些研究项目的首要主题是推动技术的发展，以开发可靠、低成本和舒适的健康监测设备，这些设备具有通过互联网提供实时数据以进行远程护理和云处理等功能。多学科研究的最新进展汇集了技术创新，从而在医疗保健设备开发方面取得了巨大进步，提高了医院服务的护理效率、质量和功效。这些研究项目将为学生提供机会，让他们接触跨学科、合作、前沿和无障碍的研究，从而发展他们的研究技能。每组学生将完成一个特定的项目，同时与其他组合作解决一个更大的问题。REU网站计划每年将吸引10名参与者参加为期10周的暑期研究经历，其中有专门和热情的教师设计了跨学科和合作研究项目。REU站点计划项目的主要目标是开发可靠和舒适的健康监测设备，具有远程数据访问的实时通信能力，以便对患者进行远程护理。这些设备的开发需要在医疗设备、信号处理和数据安全领域的合作研究工作。预计每个项目由两名学生组成。这些项目对本科生开放，同时是具有潜在新颖解决方案的当代研究问题，可以发表。此外，该计划将强调培养学生进行研究的基础知识。为了实现这一目标，每周将举办专业发展研讨会，主题包括摘要写作、研究伦理和演讲。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site, Next-generation health monitoring systems with flexible electronics, novel algorithms and secure communication, at the University of Washington Bothell (UWB) will engage a diverse group of undergraduate students in interdisciplinary and collaborative research supervised by faculty members who have different but complementary specializations in biomedical engineering, signal processing and data security. One of the main objectives of this REU site is to increase the participation of women, underrepresented minorities, and first-generation students in undergraduate research in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The overarching theme of these research projects is advancing the technologies for the development of reliable, low-cost and comfortable health monitoring devices having features such as delivering real-time data over the internet for distanced care and cloud processing. Recent advances in multidisciplinary research have brought together innovations in technologies, resulting in great strides in healthcare device development that has enhanced care efficiency, quality and efficacy in hospital services. The research projects will provide opportunities for the students to develop their research skills by exposing them to interdisciplinary, collaborative, cutting-edge, and accessible research. Each group of students will work on a specific project while collaborating with the other groups to solve a bigger problem.The REU Site program will engage 10 participants per year for a rewarding 10-week summer research experience with dedicated and enthusiastic faculty members who have designed interdisciplinary and collaborative research projects. The primary objective of the REU Site program's projects is to develop reliable and comfortable health monitoring devices with real-time communication capability for remote data access to allow distance-care of patients. The development of these devices requires collaborative research work in the areas of medical devices, signal processing and data security. It is expected that a group of two students will work on each project. The projects are accessible to undergraduate students and, at the same time, are contemporary research problems with potentially novel solutions that can lead to publications. In addition, the program will emphasize the training of students in the fundamentals of conducting research. In line with this goal, weekly professional development seminars will be conducted on subjects such as abstract writing, research ethics and presentations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.