REU Site: Making Future Communities: Infrastructure and Interaction Design for Cyber-Physical Systems

这个本科生研究体验（REU）网站每年夏天都有10名本科生参加为期9周的密集研究体验。REU网站项目经验的目标是增加参加研究生院的兴趣，加强对研究和创新职业的准备，并扩大在计算领域代表性不足的群体的参与。为了实现这些目标，REU参与者与教师、研究生和同行一起工作，以获得经验，更好地了解计算研究如何产生社会影响。每个项目都有一个主题，探索日常物品日益增加的连通性将如何帮助塑造未来的社区。研究项目工作为参与者提供了一个第一手的机会来应用和扩展他们的知识，更好地理解研究的社会和全球影响，将这些经验带回他们的家庭机构，并应用所学到的经验来设想和建立未来的社区。北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校（UNCC）的REU网站的目标是创建一个协作社区，支持和吸引不同群体的本科生进行研究，以推进网络物理系统的最新技术。技术方法涉及对网络物理系统的底层基础设施的探索，以及由该基础设施启用的应用程序和交互。网站研究主题“通过网络物理系统构建未来社区”的目标是跨越人机交互、安全、网络和可视化等重点学科的跨学科研究进展。REU网站的指导方法旨在通过定期的研究技能培训培养一个学习社区；教师、研究生和同行分层指导；交流和分享研究成果。UNCC REU网站强调来自计算机领域代表性不足的群体和研究项目有限的机构的有前途的学生的参与。

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site engages a diverse group of 10 undergraduate students each summer in an intensive 9-week research experience. The goals of the REU Site program experience are to increase interest in attending graduate school, to enhance preparation for careers in research and innovation, and to broaden participation of underrepresented groups in the field of computing. To achieve these goals, the REU participants work together with faculty, graduate students, and peers to gain experience and better understand how computing research can have societal impacts. Each project has a theme that explores how the increasing connectivity of everyday physical objects will help to shape future communities. Research project work provides participants with a firsthand opportunity to apply and expand their knowledge, to better understand the societal and global impacts of research, to bring these experiences back to their home institutions and to apply lessons learned to envision and make future communities.The objective of this REU Site at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte (UNCC) is to create a collaborative community that supports and engages a diverse group of undergraduate students in research to advance the state of the art in cyber-physical systems. The technical approach involves an exploration of the underlying infrastructure for cyber-physical systems, as well as the applications and interactions that are enabled by that infrastructure. The Site research theme of Making Future Communities through cyber-physical systems targets advances in interdisciplinary research across the focus disciplines of human computer interaction, security, networking, and visualization. The REU Site mentoring approach aims to cultivate a community of learning through regular training in research skills; tiered mentoring of faculty, graduate students, and peers; and communicating and sharing research results. The UNCC REU Site emphasizes participation of promising students from underrepresented groups in computing and from institutions that have limited research programs.