REU Site: Injury Science Research Experiences for Undergraduates

位于费城儿童医院(CHOP)伤害研究和预防中心(CIRP)的本科生伤害科学研究体验网站为各种有才华的实习生提供个性化的实习体验，旨在激励他们在科学、技术和工程领域的职业追求。为期十周的暑期课程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STEM有限项目的实习生提供灵感，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，发展解决现实世界问题的能力，并准备通过以用户为中心的参与式设计和人为因素研究来优化安全解决方案的技术。这项计划是在这个国家和世界处于技术带来的安全转型的边缘时进行的，这使得我们培训的必要性对我们的国家来说更加重要。伤害和暴力仍然是美国和世界各地儿童、青年和年轻人死亡和后天残疾的主要原因，并且仍然是CIRP REU知识的焦点。这项工作支持联合国和世界卫生大会关于儿童伤害预防的决议，该决议强调了对针对儿童的伤害预防研究和接受培训以应对这一挑战的人员的迫切需求。伤害科学REU实习生的网站目标包括：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有限项目的实习生攻读高级工程学学位，2)增加对工程学和科学的知识和兴趣，3)增加对伤害科学/工程学的知识和兴趣，4)提供专业发展5)发展解决实际问题的能力，以及6)通过以用户为中心的、参与性设计和人为因素研究，为安全解决方案优化技术。该项目的学科内指导与跨学科接触相辅相成，为实习生在人类主题研究、伦理、人类因素、以用户为中心的设计、基于社区的参与性研究、数据科学和创业方面提供广阔的视角。实习生参加传统的特定学科、以实验室为基础的培训(智力基础研究)，同时获得深入了解伤害问题所需的真实世界，以便创建广泛采用的、有效的解决方案(转化性研究)。他们还通过与企业家、行业、政府和医疗保健以及青年、家庭和他们的社区(更广泛的影响研究)合作，学习行业/大学合作方法。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.