REU Site in Environmental Engineering

科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的这个为期三年的REU现场项目专注于环境工程的广泛领域。在为期十周的暑期课程中，每年有九到十名本科生将在环境工程的广泛主题上进行研究，重点是多媒体方法(水、空气、土壤)和环境系统的长期驱动因素，如能源、气候变异性和水文学。这个项目的一个有趣的特点是，每个暑假有三到四个学生将在波多黎各的附属项目中进行为期五周的研究项目。队列活动将包括一系列研讨会和突出研究职业的实地考察。REU计划将通过组织参观当地研究实验室，包括美国地质调查局(USGS)、国家标准与技术研究所(NIST)、国家海洋和大气管理局(NOAA)、国家大气研究中心(NCAR)和国家可再生能源实验室(NREL)，向参与者介绍研究领域的职业选择。还计划开展各种社会活动，以建立社区意识，并在REU学生和他们的导师之间发展专业网络技能。在最后一周，学生将为他们的项目准备一份书面报告，并在期末研究研讨会上做口头报告，总结他们的发现。波多黎各的学生将通过视频会议(WebEx)参加最后的研究研讨会。重新招聘的努力将针对工程学和大学历史上代表性不足的群体，研究重点将较少。PI将针对少数族裔服务机构网络进行招聘，该网络将与博尔德校区现有的项目协调：夏季多元文化获取研究和培训(SMART)计划和多元文化工程计划(MEP)。将鼓励学生在专业会议上展示他们的研究成果，例如美国地球物理联合会(AGU)会议和其他会议。

This three-year REU Site program at the University of Colorado, Boulder is focused in the broad area of environmental engineering. Over the ten-week summer program, nine or ten undergraduate students per year will conduct research on a broad range of topics in environmental engineering emphasizing multimedia approaches (water, air, soil) and long-term drivers of environmental systems such as energy, climate variability and hydrology. An interesting feature of this program is that, three or four of the students per summer will work for five weeks on research projects with affiliated programs in Puerto Rico. Cohort activities will include a seminar series and field trips highlighting research careers. The REU program will introduce the participants to career options in research by organizing tours of local research laboratories, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). A variety of social activities are also planned to build a sense of community and develop professional networking skills among the REU students and their mentors. During the final week students will prepare a written report of their project and make an oral presentation summarizing their findings at the final research symposium. The students in Puerto Rico will participate in the final research symposium via video conferencing (WebEx).Recruitment efforts will be targeted to groups historically underrepresented in engineering and at universities will less research focus. The PI will target recruiting at a network of minority-serving institutions that will be coordinated with existing programs at the Boulder campus: The Summer Multicultural Access to Research and Training (SMART) program and the Multicultural Engineering Program (MEP). The students will be encouraged to present the results of their research at a professional conference such as the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting and other conferences.