REU Site: Cognitive Communications

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这个REU网站专注于弗吉尼亚理工学院的认知沟通，并在3年内接待10名本科生，为期10周。该网站通过以下方式招募、培训和留住本科生进行研究：？培养他们创造性和独立思考的能力；激励他们继续深造；？帮助他们在跨学科的背景下发展一般的研究技能；让他们获得认知无线电、无线网络及其应用的实践经验；培养学生的自信心、团队精神，并认识到跨学科合作在创造新知识方面的潜力；使他们接触到研究活动中的智力刺激；然后呢?教他们有效地吸收最新的研究成果，评估自己的知识，展示实验结果，有效地准备报告和出版物，并了解翻译的方法？从研究到实践（R2P）。智力优势：认知通信是无线通信研究人员非常感兴趣的一个领域。项目的导师在该领域有很强的背景，非常适合与学生一起开展项目。该网站有一个高质量的试验台供学生实验。更广泛的影响：该项目从计算机领域代表性不足的群体中招募了高比例的学生。他们特别关注那些没有大型研究项目的少数族裔服务机构。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This REU site is focused on cognitive communications at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and hosts 10 undergraduate students for 10 weeks for 3 years. The site recruits, trains, and retains undergraduate students to research by supporting them in the following ways:? Prepares them to think creatively and independently;? Motivates them to pursue graduate studies;? Helps them to develop general research skills in an interdisciplinary context;? Allows them to gain hands-on experience in cognitive radios, wireless networking, and their applications;? Promotes a sense of confidence, team spirit, and an appreciation of the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration in creating new knowledge;? Exposes them to the intellectual excitement involved in research activities; and? Teaches them to effectively assimilate latest research, assess their own knowledge, present experimental results, effectively prepare reports and publications, and understand the methods for translating ?research to practice (R2P).?Intellectual Merit: Cognitive communications is an area of high interest to researchers in wireless communications. The mentors in the project have a strong background in this area and are well suited to carry out the projects with the students. The site has access to a high quality test bed for student experiments. Broader Impacts: This project recruits a high percentage of the students from underrepresented groups in computing. They especially focus upon minority serving institutions without large research programs.