REU Site: Injury Science Research Experiences for Undergraduates

费城儿童医院（CHOP）伤害研究和预防中心（CIRP）的本科生伤害科学研究经验网站为不同的有才华的实习生提供个性化的实习经验，旨在激发对科学，技术和工程职业的追求。这个为期十周的暑期项目让本科生参与基础研究体验、一对一的教师指导、研讨会、会议和CIRP的实地考察。该计划旨在为女性和代表性不足的实习生以及来自stem有限项目的人员提供灵感，以追求高级科学或工程学位，增加对科学和工程的知识和兴趣，获得专业发展，培养解决现实问题的能力，并准备通过以用户为中心，参与式设计和人为因素研究来优化安全解决方案的技术。这个项目是在国家和世界正处于技术带来的安全变革的边缘时开展的，这使得我们的培训对我们的国家来说更加重要。伤害和暴力仍然是美国和全世界儿童、青年和青年人死亡和后天残疾的主要原因，并且仍然是CIRP、REU的知识重点。这项工作支持了联合国和世界卫生大会关于预防儿童伤害的决议，该决议强调了针对儿童的伤害预防研究和培训人员以应对这一挑战的迫切而未得到满足的需求。伤害科学REU网站实习生的目标包括：1)提供基础研究经验，激励女性和代表性不足的实习生以及来自stem有限项目的人追求高级工程学位；2)增加对工程和科学的知识和兴趣；3)增加对伤害科学/工程的知识和兴趣；4)提供专业发展；5)培养解决现实问题的能力；6)准备通过以用户为中心优化安全解决方案的技术。参与式设计与人因研究。该项目的学科指导与跨学科接触相辅相成，为实习生提供了人类学科研究、伦理学、人为因素、以用户为中心的设计、社区参与性研究、数据科学和创业等方面的广阔视角。实习生参加传统的特定学科的实验室培训（智力基础研究），同时也获得了深入了解伤害问题所需的现实世界的机会，以便创造广泛采用的、有影响力的解决方案（转化研究）。他们还通过与企业家、行业、政府和医疗保健以及青年、家庭及其社区一起工作（更广泛的影响研究），学习行业/大学合作方法。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。

The Injury Science Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP), provides a personalized internship experience to a diverse pool of talented interns with the aim of inspiring the pursuit of careers in science, technology, and engineering. The ten week summer program engages undergraduate students in foundational research experiences, one-on-one faculty mentorship, workshops, meetings, and field trips at CIRP. The program serves to provide women and underrepresented interns and those from STEM-limited programs with inspiration to pursue advanced science or engineering degrees, increase knowledge and interest in science and engineering, gain professional development, develop the ability to solve real-world problems, and prepare to optimize technology for safety solutions through user-centered, participatory design and human factors research. This program is active at a time when the country and world are on the brink of safety transformations enabled by technology, making the imperative for our training all the more critical for our country. Injuries and violence remain the leading causes of death and acquired disability for children, youth and young adults in the United States and worldwide, and remains the CIRP REU intellectual focus. This work supports the UN and World Health Assembly resolution on child injury prevention that highlighted an urgent, unfilled need for child-specific injury prevention research and people trained to meet this challenge.The Injury Science REU Site goals for its interns include: 1) provide foundational research experiences that inspire women and underrepresented interns and those from STEM-limited programs to pursue advanced engineering degrees, 2) increase knowledge and interest in engineering and science 3) increase knowledge and interest in injury science/engineering 4) provide professional development 5) develop ability to solve real-world problems, and 6) prepare to optimize technology for safety solutions through user-centered, participatory design and human factors research. The program's in-discipline mentorship is complemented by an interdisciplinary exposure to give the interns the broad perspective in human subjects research, ethics, human factors, user-centered design, community-based participatory research, data science and entrepreneurship. Interns participate in traditional discipline-specific, lab-based training (intellectual foundation research) while also gaining the real-world exposure needed to deeply understand injury problems in order to create widely adopted, impactful solutions (translational research). They also learn industry/university partnership methods by working alongside entrepreneurs, industry, government and healthcare as well as with youth, families and their communities (broader impacts research).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.