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 站点旨在为德克萨斯农工大学金斯维尔分校的科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 本科生提供无线传感器网络领域的研究与实践实验室和部署经验的独特组合。具体来说，这个新网站的重点是通过真正的多学科环境加强计算机科学和凸几何之间的协同作用。该 REU 站点包括一组明确且具有挑战性的研究项目，这些项目与各种实际应用密切相关，重点关注二维和三维无线传感器网络中的连接 k 覆盖、数据收集和地理转发问题。该 REU 网站的主要目标是帮助招收的本科生接触上述研究领域的多种有价值的研究工具和经验，从而成为他们这一代的科学和工程政治家。这个新的 REU 网站将帮助招收来自研究机会有限的美国各个机构的本科生，更关注代表性不足的群体，包括黑人、西班牙裔、女性、残疾人、低收入和第一代 学生传统上在科学和工程领域代表性不足。这些都是才华横溢的本科生，他们对该 REU 站点的计算机科学、凸几何和无线传感器网络领域的研究以及实验室实践和部署经验感兴趣。这些学生在学术生涯早期的暑期研究经历肯定会让他们受益匪浅。事实上，针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的成果，例如学生的独立性和自信、职业兴趣的增强、融入他们所选择的领域；进行实验；分析数据；沟通结果；并与他人作为一个团队合作。此外，这种类型的研究经验提供了教师和学生之间的互动，从而促进了他们之间的个人联系；提高学生的保留率和学习体验；并提高本科课程的质量。该 REU 网站的研究结果可以通过地方、国家和国际会议进行传播，也可以在知名期刊上发表。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。