REU Site: SURE - Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering

欧洲经济共同体-0453295五月份摘要：这项提案支持佐治亚理工学院继续实施暑期工程本科生研究(SURE)计划，每年服务十名学生，为期三年。SURE的总体目标是让代表不足的少数族裔学生接触到电气和计算机工程研究，并作为直接结果，让他们对研究生学习所提供的机会感兴趣。该计划的主要内容包括为期十周的关键电气和计算机工程领域(包括光电子学、集成电路和器件以及数字信号处理)的挑战性研究，每个学生与一名教师导师和一名研究生导师的配对，每周一次关于电气和计算机工程动态领域新兴研究的研讨会，参观当地工业研究地点的机会，准备口头和书面研究摘要，以及学生参与者和他们的研究生导师之间的社会和文化互动。像SURE这样的课程是增加少数民族入学高级学位课程并最终增加少数民族博士人口规模的重要组成部分。多数学生和少数族裔代表不足之间的持久差距只有在从学士学位升至硕士学位时才明显。从理学士或理科硕士到博士学位没有这样的差距，这意味着，一旦被研究生录取，代表人数不足的学生同样致力于攻读博士学位。因此，主要的挑战是让代表不足的学生考虑研究生的选择。这是一个目前肯定会遇到的挑战。自1992年成立以来，在Sure的近250名参与者中，约有90%的人读过研究生，其中近一半人来到佐治亚理工学院。

Abstract for May, EEC-0453295:This proposal supports the continuation of Georgia Tech's Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) program to serve ten students per year for three years. The overall goal of SURE is to expose underrepresented minority students to electrical and computer engineering research, and as a direct consequence, to interest them in opportunities available through graduate study. Key elements of the program include ten weeks of challenging research in critical electrical and computer engineering areas (including optoelectronics, integrated circuits and devices, and digital signal processing), pairing of each student with both a faculty advisor and a graduate student mentor, a weekly seminar on emerging research in the dynamic field of electrical and computer engineering, opportunities to visit local industrial research sites, preparation of oral and written research summaries, and social and cultural interactions between the student participants and their graduate mentors.Programs such as SURE are an essential component of enhancing minority enrollment in advanced degree programs and ultimately, increasing the size of the minority Ph.D. population. The persistence gap between majority students and underrepresented minorities is evident only when proceeding from the Bachelor's to the Master's degree. The absence of such a gap when proceeding from either the B.S. or M.S. to the Ph.D. implies that once admitted to graduate school, underrepresented students are equally committed to pursuing the doctorate. The primary challenge therefore is getting underrepresented students to consider the graduate school option. This is a challenge that is currently being met by SURE. Since its inception in 1992, approximately 90% of SURE's nearly 250 total participants have gone to graduate school, and nearly half of those have come to Georgia Tech.