REU Site: Wireless communications for rural and remote areas

EEC-0648694Richard S.Wolff拟建的REU网站将在蒙大拿州立大学进行为期10周的研究体验，为期三年，每年吸引8名本科生。该计划的目标是：1)让本科生接触到专注于农村和偏远地区无线通信的现实世界、创新和跨学科研究；2)鼓励更多的本科生继续他们的学术生涯，攻读工程、计算机和信息科学的研究生学位；以及3)发展研究技能，提高沟通和协作能力。这一REU计划将与密歇根州立大学校园范围内和工程学院现有的招收和留住美国原住民学生的非常成功的计划紧密结合在一起。这一REU计划将满足美国对创新工程研究人员和专业人员的多样化需求，他们能够使用各种技术来满足越来越多的不同领域的通信系统需求，服务于商业、教育和国防目标。此外，REU计划将有助于吸引高质量的美国原住民本科生、地区部落学院的学生、蒙大拿州学院的学生以及来自其他资源有限的农村地区的大学的学生，以及增加学生的性别和文化多样性的女性工程学学生。该计划将建立在蒙大拿州立大学吉尔霍伦电信计划的基础上，并将由吉尔霍伦电信主席理查德·S·沃尔夫教授指导。该网站由国防部与NSF REU计划合作支持。

EEC-0648694Richard S. WolffThe proposed REU site will engage 8 undergraduate students each year for three years in a 10 week research experience at Montana State University. The objectives of the program are: 1) to expose undergraduate students to real-world, innovative and interdisciplinary research focused on wireless communications for rural and remote areas; 2) to encourage more undergraduates to continue their academic careers and seek graduate degrees in engineering, computer and information science; and 3) to develop research skills and improve communication and collaborative skills. This REU program will be tightly coupled to the highly successful MSU campus-wide and College of Engineering programs already in place to recruit and retain Native American students.This REU will address the nation's need for a diverse group of innovative engineering researchers and professionals capable of using a variety of technologies to address communications systems needs in an ever increasing number of diverse domains serving commercial, educational and national defense objectives. Also, the REU program will serve to attract high-quality undergraduate Native American students, students from regional tribal colleges, students from Montana colleges and colleges from other rural areas with limited resources, as well as women engineering students to increase the gender and cultural diversity of students.This program will build on and will be complementary to the Montana State University Gilhousen Telecommunications Program and will be directed by Professor Richard S. Wolff, Gilhousen Telecommunications Chair.This site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.