REU Site: High Performance Computing with Engineering Applications

该奖项为位于纽约州波茨坦克拉克森大学的REU站点提供为期三年的高性能计算（HPC）支持，这是一个对国家安全、科学发现和技术创新至关重要的领域。该项目的目标是鼓励30名有才华的本科生通过参与令人兴奋的、正在进行的研究项目，并在为期十周的暑期研究经历中培养他们的才能，在HPC领域攻读研究生和职业生涯。为学生提供的16个正在进行的研究项目具有创新性，并分享来自航空工程，化学工程，土木工程，电气和计算机工程，软件工程和应用数学等学科的社会相关工程应用的共同主题。因此，该项目符合国家利益，正如NSF的使命所述：促进科学进步；促进国家健康、繁荣和福利；或者是为了保卫国防。招收的学生来自目标机构，这些机构在HPC方面提供的研究机会有限或根本没有，比如历史上少数民族的学院和大学。重点是吸引代表性不足的少数民族和女学生。具有高性能计算应用专业知识的教师指导学生成为研究人员，并为他们提供基于工程创新的高性能计算应用设计和开发方面的专业培训。这种专门的培训为学生提供了数学建模、算法开发、并行和分布式编程方面的技术和分析技能，这对他们将来的追求（如研究生学习或工业工作）有益。通过额外的专业发展活动，包括HPC速成班、实地考察、邀请演讲者、每周小组会议和教师导师培训讲习班，进一步加强了这种培训的质量。在职业发展、文献检索、技术写作和研究生院咨询方面的研讨会也被纳入该计划，所有学生参与者都有机会参加并出席专业会议。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 award provides support for a three-year REU Site at Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, in High Performance Computing (HPC), a field critical to national security, scientific discovery, and technological innovation. The goal of this project is to encourage 30 talented undergraduate students to pursue graduate study and careers in HPC by engaging them in exciting, ongoing research projects and by cultivating their talents during ten-week summer research experiences and beyond. Sixteen ongoing research projects available for students are innovative and share the common theme of societally relevant engineering applications that originate from disciplines as diverse as aeronautical engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical and computer engineering, software engineering, and applied mathematics. The project thus serves the national interest, as stated by NSF's mission: to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare; or to secure the national defense.Students are recruited from targeted institutions that offer limited or no research opportunities in HPC, such as historically minority colleges and universities. Emphasis is placed on attracting underrepresented minority and female students. Faculty with expertise in HPC applications mentor the students to be researchers and provide them with specialized training in the design and development of HPC applications that are rooted in and motivated by engaging engineering innovations. This specialized training provides the students with technical and analytical skills in mathematical modeling, algorithmic development, and parallel and distributed programming, which benefit them in future pursuits such as graduate study or industry work. The quality of this training is further reinforced by additional professional development activities, including an HPC crash course, field trips, invited speakers, weekly group meetings, and a mentor training workshop for faculty. Seminars in career development, literature search, technical writing, and graduate school advisement, are also integrated into the program, and all student participants are given the opportunity to attend and present in professional conferences.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.