SUPERB (Summer Undergraduate Program of Engineering Research at Berkeley): REU Proposal in Bioengineering

9820375加州大学伯克利分校James Casey加州大学伯克利分校工程学院生物工程系和代表性不足的工程学生中心（CUES）要求REU（本科生研究经验）支持SUPERB（伯克利分校工程研究暑期本科课程）在生物工程研究领域的研究。 我们正在寻求每年9名学生的支持，为期5年。 NSF的资金将与校园，学院和行业的支持高度杠杆化。 招聘将针对工程专业的学生。 工程学院和SUPERB项目在本科生参与研究和多元化项目方面拥有良好的记录。 生物工程的拟议研究重点被选中，因为它越来越受到本科生的欢迎，并且对学术界和工业界具有重要的战略意义。 SUPERB为优秀的学生提供机会，通过与教师和研究生一起在他们感兴趣的领域进行研究项目来获得研究经验。 通过提供学生谁有有限的或没有机会参加刺激的研究和教师和研究生指导，SUPERB解决了一个关键领域，影响他们的决定参加研究生院。 每个学生都与一名教师仔细匹配，他是生物工程项目的成员和研究生导师。 除了研究工作，每周学术支持会议举行的优秀学生。 这些会议提供有关研究生院招生和奖学金，时间管理，研究方法，演示文稿和技术报告演示文稿和其他相关主题的信息。 该计划在为期一天的论坛中达到高潮，学生向他们的教师和研究生导师以及工程界的其他成员进行口头陈述。 每个学生都需要书面报告，并汇编分发。

9820375University of California-BerkeleyJames CaseyThe Department of Bioengineering and the Center for Underrepresented Engineering Students (CUES) in the College of Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley request REU (research Experiences for Undergraduates) support for SUPERB (Summer Undergraduate Program of Engineering Research at Berkeley) in the research area of Bioengineering. We are asking for support of nine students per year for five years. The NSF funding will be highly leveraged with campus, College, and industry support. Recruiting will be targeted to underrepresent engineering students. The College of Engineering and the SUPERB program have a strong record of undergraduate participation in research and diversity projects. The proposed research focus in Bioengineering was chosen, as it is has become increasingly popular with undergraduate students and has become strategically important to academia and industry. SUPERB offers outstanding students the opportunity to gain research experience by working with a faculty member and graduate student on a research project in their area of interest. By providing students who have had limited or no opportunity to participate in stimulating research and faculty and graduate student mentoring, SUPERB addresses a critical area that affects their decision to attend graduate school. Each student is carefully matched with a faculty member, who is a member of the Bioengineering program and a graduate student mentor. In addition to the research work, weekly academic support meetings are held for SUPERB students. These meetings provide information on graduate school admissions and fellowships, time management; research methodology; presentations and technical report presentations and other related topics. The program culminates in a daylong forum in which students make oral presentations to their faculty and graduate student mentors, and other members of the engineering community. Written reports are required by each student and compiled for dissemination.