REU Site: Socially Relevant Computing Research: Visualization, Virtual Environments, Gaming, and Networking

该项目的目标是通过提供暑期研究体验，让本科生沉浸在研究实验室的活动和文化中，扩大对计算机博士项目的参与。参与的实验室包括夏洛特可视化中心、未来计算实验室、游戏+学习实验室和网络研究实验室。学生将在这些实验室内专注于计算研究，使人们能够解决个人感兴趣的问题或对整个社会重要的问题(与社会相关的计算)。这些活动包括暑期研究体验，向学生介绍计算研究方法和广泛的计算研究学科。学生将得到同行和教师导师的支持。学生将参加GRE预备课程，并将向他们展示如何申请研究生院并在研究生院取得成功。目标学生参与者是女性和代表不足的少数族裔学生，他们是正在崛起的大三学生，主要来自非博士院校。预计的影响是，大量的REU学生将申请计算机博士课程。INTELLECTUAL MERIT学术价值将主要是参与REU网站的本科生对计算研究的贡献。所讨论的主题在CS中相对较新。此外，项目评估将通过展示REU网站结构在激励学生申请计算机博士项目方面的成功和挑战，为招收本科生攻读博士项目提供信息。BROADER IMPACT该项目的更广泛影响将从计算机领域代表不足的人群中成功参与研究、申请并被计算机研究生项目录取的学生数量的增加来证明。

The project objectives are to broaden participation in computing doctoral programs by providing a summer research experience that will immerse undergraduates into the activities and culture of a research lab. Participating labs include the Charlotte Visualization Center, the Future Computing Lab, the Games+Learning Lab and the Networking Research Lab. Students will focus on computing research, within these labs, that empower people to solve problems of personal interest or that are important to society at large (socially relevant computing). The activities include a summer research experience introducing students to computing research methodologies and a broad array of computing research disciplines. Students will receive support from peer and faculty mentors. Students will take a GRE prep course and will be shown how to apply to and succeed in graduate school. The targeted student participants are women and under-represented minority students who are rising juniors, predominantly from non-doctoral institutions. The intended impact is that a high number of REU students will apply to computing doctoral programs.INTELLECTUAL MERITThe intellectual merit will primarily be the contributions to computing research that will be produced by the undergraduate students participating in the REU Site. The topics addressed are relatively new in CS. Additionally, the program evaluation will inform efforts to recruit undergraduate students to doctoral programs by demonstrating the success and challenges of this REU Site structure for motivating students to apply to doctoral programs in computing.BROADER IMPACTThe broader impact of the project will be evidenced by the increased numbers of students from under-represented populations in computing who successfully participate in research and who apply to and are accepted into graduate programs in computing.