REU Sites: Research Experiences For Undergraduates in Virtual Reality, Robotics and Visualization

职务名称：REU研究中心：研究经验的本科生在虚拟现实，机器人和可视化PI：沙龙Stansfieldinstitution：伊萨卡学院该计划的目标是鼓励学生就读于非研究型大学，主要是本科院校，以追求研究生学习和计算机科学的研究生涯。为期八周的暑期课程为学生提供了一个研究项目的机会，让他们与自己的研究团队（由教师导师领导）以及来自其他学科的研究人员合作的“真实的世界”经验。研究项目包括开发用于教育，治疗和人类运动控制基础研究的虚拟现实软件;探索机器人技术作为辅助技术，以帮助残疾人和老年人;以及三维分形树的分析和可视化，着眼于将其用作生物学，经济学，医学等学科的建模工具。除了研究项目本身的工作，学生在该计划参加了一些其他活动，旨在提供信息和经验，这将有助于他们追求技术职业。这些活动包括在项目进行到一半时提出项目的口头建议，并通过邀请学术界成员参加的最终海报会议传播结果。我们也鼓励参与者在节目结束后在其他地点展示他们的作品。其他活动包括选择和申请研究生院，研究方法和使用图书馆研究数据库的演示。 还安排了教师和其他人的研究型演讲和演示。 该计划将鼓励不同群体的本科生考虑就读研究生院，并开始研究生涯。这解决了吸引不同群体的学生从事研究型科学职业的重要国家需求。

Title: REU Site: Research Experiences For Undergraduates in Virtual Reality, Robotics and VisualizationPI: Sharon Stansfieldinstitution: Ithaca CollegeThe goal of this program is to encourage students enrolled at non-research universities and primarily undergraduate institutions to pursue graduate study and research careers in Computer Science. The eight week summer program provides an opportunity for students to work on research projects that give them the "real world" experience of working in collaboration with their own research team (led by a faculty mentor,) as well as with researchers from other disciplines. The research projects include developing virtual reality software for education, therapy, and basic research into human motor control; exploring robotics as an assistive technology to aid the disabled and elderly; and analysis and visualization of three-dimensional fractal trees, with an eye toward their use as a modeling tool within disciplines such as biology, economics, medicine. In addition to working on the research project itself, students in the program participate in a number of other activities aimed at providing information and experiences that will be helpful in their pursuit of technical careers. These activities include presenting an oral proposal for their project toward the middle of the program and disseminating results through a final poster session to which members of the academic community are invited. Participants are also encouraged to present their work at other venues after the program ends. Other activities include presentations on choosing and applying to graduate school, research methods, and using library research databases. Research-oriented presentations and demonstrations by faculty and others are also scheduled. The program will encourage a diverse group of undergraduates to consider attending graduate school and embarking on research careers. This addresses the important national need of attracting a diverse group of students to research-oriented science careers.