REU Site: RIDE - Research for Inclusivity and Driving Equity

本科生包容性和驾驶公平研究（RIDE）研究体验（REU）网站将为本科生提供沉浸式和跨学科的社区参与研究体验，重点是改善服务不足和代表性不足的社区的交通体验。RIDE REU网站将培养全面发展的研究人员，为他们提供设计更好地为社区服务的运输系统所需的知识；制定交通政策和法规，以实现更公平的交通结果；并帮助弥合跨学科和与感兴趣的社区之间的沟通差距。RIDE REU网站将通过招聘和指导，以及与REU学生和教师在其所在机构保持关系，支持妇女和代表性不足的少数民族充分参与STEM。这种对妇女和少数民族的提升将促进一个更公平的未来教授。此外，REU将帮助在交通运输这一关键战略领域培养劳动力，通过让有前途的学生参与社区研究、设计和规划，帮助提高美国的经济竞争力。RIDE REU网站的目标是：(1)吸引各种各样的本科生参与交通研究，(2)让本科生了解和教育影响他们社区交通决策的融合研究，(3)鼓励本科生在交通相关领域进行研究生研究，(4)通过终身指导丰富本科生的经历。REU网站的预期贡献是每年准备和激励10名不同的本科生在交通相关领域攻读研究生教育。学生将参与各种需要数据收集和分析的指导研究项目，如访谈、焦点小组、调查和二手数据分析。除了与跨学科研究人员合作外，学生还将与社区合作伙伴合作收集数据并传播结果。在研究之外，学生们将在夏季参加一系列活动，包括：专业发展和交流研讨会、技术研讨会、实地考察、工作午餐、夏季结束的演讲和海报会议、技术写作和一个更广泛的影响项目。招收的学生来自：女子学院；社区学院;少数人在高中读书；东北路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔合作机构联盟；少数族裔服务机构（即hbcu和hsi）；以及马萨诸塞大学学生亲和团体（如全国黑人工程师协会）。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 Research for Inclusivity and Driving Equity (RIDE) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site will provide undergraduate students an immersive and interdisciplinary experience in community engaged research focused on improving the transportation experience for underserved and underrepresented communities. The RIDE REU Site will develop well-rounded researchers by providing them the knowledge necessary to design transportation systems that better serve communities; to formulate transportation policies and regulations that lead to more equitable transportation outcomes; and to help bridge communication gaps across disciplines and with communities of interest. The RIDE REU Site will support the full participation of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM through recruiting and mentoring, and by sustaining relationships with REU students and faculty at their home institutions. This promotion of women and minorities will facilitate a more equitable future professoriate. Moreover, the REU will help build the workforce in a key strategic area – transportation - helping to increase the economic competitiveness of the U.S. by exposing promising students to community engaged research, design, and planning.The objectives of the RIDE REU Site are to: (1) engage a diverse pool of undergraduate students in transportation research, (2) expose and educate undergraduate students on convergent research that affects their communities’ transportation decisions, (3) encourage undergraduate students to pursue graduate research in transportation related fields, and (4) enrich the undergraduate student experience through lifelong mentoring. The intended contribution of the REU site is preparing and motivating 10 diverse undergraduate students per year to pursue graduate education in fields related to transportation. Students will participate in a variety of mentored research projects that require data collection and analysis such as interviews, focus groups, surveys, and secondary data analysis. In addition to engaging with interdisciplinary researchers, students will also engage with community partners to collect data and disseminate the results. Outside of research, students will participate in a host of activities over the summer, including: professional development and communication seminars, technical seminars, field trips, working lunches, end-of-summer presentation and poster session, technical writing, and a broader impacts project. Students will be recruited from: women’s colleges; community colleges; a minority serving high school; Northeast Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Partnership institutions; minority serving institutions (i.e., HBCUs and HSIs); and UMass student affinity groups (e.g., National Society of Black Engineers).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.