REU Site: Information Technology at the UCSC Baskin School of Engineering

美国加州大学（UCSC）圣克鲁斯校区的信息技术暑期本科生研究奖学金（SURF-IT）项目为12名学生提供了一个密集的、个性化的暑期研究项目，重点是来自代表性不足的群体和弱势背景的本科生。一周的暑期课程，包括由UCSC计算机工程，计算机科学或电气工程教员直接监督的研究。学生还将每周举行一次关于研究生院准备，研究伦理和研究演示的会议，以及到当地邻近的硅谷研究实验室进行实地考察，以及一些社交活动。夏季课程结束时，SURF-IT学生将展示研究海报。PI的目标是通过帮助有动力的学生获得研究生学位来促进计算机科学和工程的多样性，然后成为全国未来几代大学生的积极榜样。PI打算与SURF-IT校友保持持续的联系，以帮助他们申请并成功进入研究生院，以及他们最终的职业生涯。智力优异的学生参加UCSC巴斯金工程学院信息技术方面的各种资助研究项目。每个项目的具体智力价值各不相同，但所有学生都将学习将他们传统的学术训练应用于信息技术前沿的开放式研究问题。更广泛的影响随着时间的推移，将有更多来自信息技术领域代表性不足的群体的个人，如女性和种族/少数民族，获得研究生学位。这些人将能够在学术界和工业界担任领导职务，为下一代提供积极的榜样。该计划和其他REU网站的组合将确保扩大参与计算机科学和工程，以及训练有素的信息技术专家的国内池增加。

BackgroundThe Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology (SURF-IT) program at the Santa Cruz campus of the University of California (UCSC) provides an intensive and personalized summer research program for 12 students with an emphasis on undergraduates from underrepresented groups and disadvantaged backgrounds.The primary part of SURF-IT is a 9-week summer program that includes research directly supervised by a UCSC faculty member in computer engineering, computer science, or electrical engineering. Students will also have weekly meetings on graduate school preparation, research ethics, and research presentation, as well as field trips to local neighboring Silicon Valley research laboratories, and a number of social activities. The summer program concludes with a research poster presentation by the SURF-IT students. The PIs goal is to promote diversity in computer science and engineering by assisting motivated students in obtaining graduate degrees to then become positive role models for future generations of college students throughout the nation. The PIs intend to maintain continuing contact with SURF-IT alumni to assist them in applying to and succeeding in graduate school, as well as in their eventual careers.Intellectual Merit Students join a variety of funded research projects in information technology at the UCSC Baskin School of Engineering. The specific intellectual merit of each project will vary, however all students will learn to apply their traditional academic training to open-ended research problems at the forefront of information technology.Broader Impact The impact over time will be greater numbers of individuals from groups underrepresented in information technology, such as women and racial/ethnic minorities, with postgraduate degrees. These individuals will then be able to take leadership positions in academia and industry, providing positive role models for a next generation. The combination of this program and other REU sites will ensure broadened participation in computer science and engineering, as well as an increased domestic pool of highly trained information technologists.