Hooked on Photonics (HoP): REU Experiences at the University of Washington

美国国家科学基金会的化学（CHE）和材料科学研究（DMR）部门将在2005-2007年夏季联合资助华盛顿大学本科生研究经验（REU）网站。项目主管是菲利普·里德，由副主任萨拉·塞尔夫协助。该REU站点将为华盛顿大学信息技术研究材料与设备中心（mdrr）提供研究经验。招募的重点是Gateway学生，即来自社区大学和缺乏研究设施的四年制大学的低水平本科生（进入大二和大三）。招聘将强调妇女和代表性不足的少数民族。来自西澳大学6个系的17名教员已经同意，在拟议项目的三年时间里，至少有一年在他们的实验室里接待两名或更多的学生。在每个为期10周的暑期项目中，9名学生将参与与MDITR研究直接相关的真实实践研究项目。mitr pi将举办技术研讨会，为学生提供将他们的研究与广泛的跨学科光子学领域相关的机会；学生将参加与伦理、科学交流和职业相关的研讨会，以了解科学和工程的社区和文化。此外，学生将从事信息技术领域的研究，这是一项至关重要的技术，影响着全球和国家的经济和社会（教育，医疗保健，国防，娱乐，交通等）福祉。

NSF's chemistry (CHE) and materials science research (DMR) divisions will jointly fund the University of Washington's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site for the summers of 2005-2007. The program director is Philip Reid who is assisted by Co-PI Sara Selfe. This REU site will provide research experiences at the University of Washington's Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research (MDITR) Center. The recruiting focus is for Gateway students, that is, lower-level undergraduates (entering sophomore and juniors) from community colleges and 4-year institutions that lack research facilities. Recruitment will emphasize women and underrepresented minorities. Seventeen faculty members from six UW departments have agreed to host two or more students in their labs for at least one of the three years of the proposed project. For each 10-week summer program, the 9-student cohort will engage in authentic hands-on research projects directly related to MDITR research. MDITR PIs will present technical seminars to provide students the opportunity to place their research into context related to the broad interdisciplinary field of photonics; and students will engage in workshops related to ethics, communicating science, and careers in order to learn about the community and culture of science and engineering in general. Furthermore, students will be engaged in research within the field of Information Technology, a critically important technology, impacting economic and social (education, health care, defense, entertainment, transportation, etc.) well-being both globally and nationally.