Conference: Undergraduate Spectrum Workshop

本科频谱研讨会（USW）是由贝勒大学主办的为期3-4天的受邀研讨会，重点是招募新的本科生进行电磁频谱研究和电磁频谱管理方面的未来培训和就业机会。随着下一代通信和设备连接网络日益成为我们日常生活的重要组成部分，频谱研究和频谱管理领域对国家越来越重要。为了在下一代通信领域保持全球领先地位，并确保国家的健康、繁荣和福利将由未来几代日益互联的设备所实现，培养一支了解频谱研究和频谱管理在我们生活中发挥关键作用的人才队伍至关重要，这支队伍经过专业培训，能够领导学术、工业、未来的联邦实验室将在这一领域不断取得进展。本次会议将讨论这些具有高度国家重要性的目标。该研讨会将从贝勒附近的小型地区学院招募学生和教师，这些学院的少数族裔学生比例很高。该研讨会借鉴了贝勒大学（Baylor University）之前举办的一个类似设计和成功的研讨会的经验，该研讨会的目标类似，旨在招募学生进入化学培训和职业生涯。研讨会的目标是向学生介绍频谱职业道路，并招募他们参加频谱培训计划和潜在的未来频谱职业。在为期3-4天的研讨会期间，活动将包括学术和行业专家的内容交付，并将重点放在学生的互动活动上。学生将被安排在5-10人的小组中，以最大限度地发挥个人的影响力。活动将是跨学科的，包括模拟频谱试验，频谱滤波器设计和测量练习，以及自制雷达系统的测试。活动结束后的小组会议将讨论频谱职业道路、研究生院选择以及学生实际感兴趣的其他主题。在研讨会期间，参与者将被安置在贝勒大学，并有机会与潜在的未来教师导师进行互动。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 Undergraduate Spectrum Workshop (USW) is a 3-4 day invited workshop hosted by Baylor University that focuses on recruiting new undergraduate students into future training and career opportunities in electromagnetic spectrum research and electromagnetic spectrum management. The fields of spectrum research and spectrum management are of increasing importance to the nation as next generation communications and device-connectivity networks are becoming a greater part of our everyday lives. To remain a global leader in next generation communications and to ensure the health, prosperity, and welfare of the nation that will be enabled by future generations of increasingly connected devices, it is critical to develop a workforce talent pipeline that is aware of the critical role that spectrum research and spectrum management play in our lives and that is expertly trained to lead the academic, industrial, and federal labs of the future that will produce continued advances in this area. This conference addresses these goals of high national importance.The workshop will recruit students and faculty from small regional colleges nearby Baylor that have a high composition of underrepresented minority students. The workshop is based on and borrows experience from a similarly designed and successful workshop previously hosted at Baylor University with similar goals to recruit students into training and careers in chemistry. The goal of the workshop is to introduce students to spectrum career paths and to recruit them into spectrum training programs and a potential future spectrum career. The activities during the 3-4 day workshop will include content delivery from academic and industry experts and will also have a strong focus on interactive activities for students. The students will be arranged in small groups of 5-10 participants to maximize the individual impact. Activities will be cross-disciplinary including a mock spectrum trial, a spectrum filter design and measurement exercise, and testing of homemade radar systems. Post-activity panel sessions will discuss spectrum career paths, graduate school options, and other topics of practical interest to students. Participants will be housed at Baylor during the workshop and have a chance to interact with potential future faculty mentors.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.