A Symposium/Workshop on Undergraduate Consultancies

这个项目促进了一种鼓励本科生在“现实世界”问题上的工作的方式，这些问题是从学术环境以外的来源挑选出来的。基金将支持一个关于本科生咨询项目的研讨会/研讨会，将那些在咨询项目方面有经验的人，那些希望开始这样的项目的人，以及来自行业、商业和政府的代表聚集在一起。不仅有越来越多的证据表明这种活动的教育价值，而且它还有一个额外的优势，那就是将非学术世界与本科生数学世界更紧密地联系在一起。这促进了对数学在解决问题中所起作用的更大认识，这些问题经常出现在数学的适用性没有得到充分理解的情况下。这次研讨会将迈出重要的第一步，在课程范围内将咨询工作提供的机会扩大到更广泛的本科生群体。到目前为止，只有拥有支持此类项目的内部资源的大型机构才能提供这些服务。创建组织基础设施和利用电子通信是必要的，也是可用的，以向资源有限的小型学院和大学开放重要的研究类活动的机会。

This project promotes a way to encourage undergraduate work on "real-world" problems culled from sources outside the academic environment. Funds will support a workshop/symposium on undergraduate consultancy programs to bring together those with experience in consultancy programs, those who wish to start such programs, and representatives from industry, business, and government. Not only is there growing evidence of the educational merit of such activity, but it has the added advantage of tying more closely the non-academic world with the world of undergraduate mathematics. This fosters a greater appreciation of the role which mathematics plays in solving problems which routinely arise in situations where the applicability of mathematics is not fully understood. This workshop will take an important first step in extending the opportunity offered by consultancy work, in a curricular context, to a much wider population of undergraduates. Until now, only large institutions with the in-house resources to support such programs could offer them. Creating organizational infrastructure and taking advantage of electronic communication are required, and are available, to open up the opportunities of a vital research-like activity to small colleges and universities with limited resources.