REU Site: Gluing Computer Science and Convex Geometry: Research Experiences for Undergraduates from Community Colleges

REU 网站：粘合计算机科学和凸几何：社区学院本科生的研究经验

• 批准号: 2244594
• 负责人: HABIB AMMARI
• 金额: $ 40.99万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University-Kingsville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-02-15 至 2026-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2244594&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Gluing; Computer; Science

This REU Site aims at providing undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) students with a unique combination of research and hands-on laboratory and deployment experiences in the area of wireless sensor networks at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Specifically, this new Site focuses on strengthening the synergy between computer science and convex geometry through a truly multidisciplinary environment. This REU Site includes a set of well-defined and challenging research projects, which are tight to a wide variety of real-world applications, with an emphasis on the problems of connected k-coverage, data collection, and geographic forwarding in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional wireless sensor networks. The major goal of this REU Site is to help the recruited undergraduate students get exposure to several valuable research tools and experiences in the above-mentioned research areas so as to become science and engineering statespersons for their generation.This new REU Site will help recruit undergraduate students from various U.S. institutions having limited research opportunities with a more focus on underrepresented ones, including Black, Hispanic, female, disable, low-income, and first-generation students, who traditionally have been underrepresented in science and engineering. These are talented undergraduate students who are interested in research as well as hands-on laboratory and deployment experiences in the areas of computer science, convex geometry, and wireless sensor networks for this REU Site. This summer research experience for these students early in their academic career will certainly benefit them significantly. Indeed, research for undergraduates can be viewed as a high-impact educational practice that is capable of producing positive outcomes for these students, such as student independence and self-confidence, career interest reinforcement, integration into their selected field; conducting experiments; analyzing data; communicating results; and working with others as a team. In addition, this type of research experience provides interactions between faculty and students, which in turn facilitate personal connections between them; improves student retention and learning experience; and enhances the quality of the undergraduate curriculum. The findings of this REU Site can be disseminated using local, national, and international conferences, and also published in highly reputed journals.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.

该REU网站旨在在德克萨斯州A＆M University-Kingsville的无线传感器网络领域提供独特的研究与动手实验室和部署经验的本科科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学生。具体而言，这个新站点致力于通过真正的多学科环境来增强计算机科学与凸几何之间的协同作用。该REU网站包括一组明确且具有挑战性的研究项目，这些项目紧密到各种各样的现实应用程序，重点是二维和三维无线传感器网络中连接的K覆盖，数据收集以及地理转发的问题。 The major goal of this REU Site is to help the recruited undergraduate students get exposure to several valuable research tools and experiences in the above-mentioned research areas so as to become science and engineering statespersons for their generation.This new REU Site will help recruit undergraduate students from various U.S. institutions having limited research opportunities with a more focus on underrepresented ones, including Black, Hispanic, female, disable, low-income, and first-generation传统上在科学和工程领域的人数不足的学生。这些是对该REU站点的计算机科学，凸几何形状和无线传感器网络领域的研究以及在计算机科学，凸线几何和无线传感器网络领域的实验室和部署经验感兴趣的才华横溢的本科生。这些学生在学术生涯的早期为这些学生的研究经验肯定会给他们带来可观的受益。确实，对本科生的研究可以被视为一种高影响力的教育实践，能够为这些学生产生积极成果，例如学生独立性和自信心，职业兴趣强化，将其融入其选定的领域；进行实验；分析数据；传达结果；并与他人一起工作。此外，这种研究经验提供了教师与学生之间的互动，从而有助于他们之间的个人联系。改善学生的保留和学习经验；并提高本科课程的质量。该REU网站的发现可以使用本地，国家和国际会议进行传播，还可以在备受赞誉的期刊上发表。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估来评估的值得支持的。