Research Experiences for Undergraduates at the Rice Quantum Institute

由莱斯量子研究所（RQI）进行的REU计划汇集了来自大学外以及莱斯大学的学生，进行为期十周的跨学科暑期研究计划。重点是为本科生提供一个跳跃式的开始，进入许多方面的研究，不能很容易地在课堂上学习，这些学生通常来自资源有限的学校。学生们接触到不同的学科与各种研究小组，有组织的实验室图尔斯之旅，由赖斯格拉德生每周研讨会，并与其他REU学生频繁的科学和社会互动的接触。每个学生都将通过加入一个单独的研究小组，每天与学生，博士后和教师主管一起工作，参与尖端的科学工作。RQI的成员有强烈的重叠，跨学科的研究兴趣，交织在化学，物理，电气工程，化学工程，机械工程和材料科学，生物工程，计算和应用数学，以及土木和环境工程的工作。每个项目的选择将是理想的学生具有挑战性，但仍然在10周内管理。小组的凝聚力将通过联合住房，由赖斯研究生每周科学研讨会，每周科学和社会活动促进。虽然学生们会自然地讨论他们的工作性质和它是如何进展的，他们也将提出简短的计算机演示给对方和PI在中期会议。这将巩固他们对彼此进展和项目的了解，并提供科学演示的第一次经验。在最后一周，学生们将提交他们的科学活动的书面报告，通过退出面试，并在该计划的最后一天，在年度RQI夏季研究座谈会上展示他们的工作海报，与来自赖斯和其他学校的本科生一起在一个会议上颁发有竞争力的奖项。我们将鼓励学生在其他会议上展示他们的成果。将继续努力跟踪参与者在参与后几年的职业进展。该网站由国防部与NSF REU计划以及NSF物理和化学部门共同资助。

The REU program conducted by the Rice Quantum Institute (RQI) brings together a number of students from outside universities as well as from Rice University for a ten-week interdisciplinary summer research program. The focus is to provide undergraduate students, frequently from schools with more limited resources, with a jump start into many aspects of research that cannot easily be learned in classes. The students are exposed to different disciplines by contact with a variety of research groups, organized lab tours, weekly seminars by Rice grad students, and frequent scientific and social interactions with other REU students. Each student will become involved in cutting-edge scientific work by joining an individual research group and working daily with the students, postdocs and faculty supervisor. The members of RQI have strongly overlapping, interdisciplinary research interests that interweave work in chemistry, physics, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and materials science, bioengineering, computational and applied mathematics, and civil and environmental engineering. Each project chosen will ideally be challenging for the student, yet still manageable within the 10-week period. Group cohesiveness will be promoted through joint housing, weekly scientific seminars by Rice graduate students, and weekly scientific and social activities. While the students will naturally discuss among themselves the nature of their work and how it is progressing, they will also present brief computer presentations to each other and the PI at midsession. This will solidify their knowledge of each other's progress and projects as well as providing a first experience in scientific presentation. During the last week, students will turn in written reports of their scientific activities, go through exit interviews, and, on the last day of the program, present posters of their work in the annual RQI Summer Research Colloquium alongside undergraduates from Rice and other schools in a session where competitive prizes are awarded. Students will be encouraged to present their results at other conferences. Continual efforts will be made to track the career progress of the participants in the years after their participation. The site is co-funded by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program and by the NSF Physics and Chemistry Divisions.