REU Site: Summer Program in Applied Psychology

摘要：应用心理学暑期课程为学员提供人因、健康和工业/组织心理学方面的研究培训。该计划的目标是提高有才华的学生对研究、科学和科学事业的兴趣、理解和承诺。这些目标应该增加和维持学生对研究、专业活动和进入研究生课程的参与。作为REU网站的一部分，学生们将在应用心理学会议上展示他们的研究成果，其中包括受邀演讲者的演讲。后续的年度活动包括为其他专业演示文稿、合作出版物提供差旅支持，以及为研究生项目的申请提供建议。智力价值：这个REU网站招收的学生在数学、生物科学、社会科学和/或工业工程方面有很强的背景，对科学和研究表现出潜在的兴趣和承诺，主要来自非研究型学院和大学。该计划的主要智力价值是识别和评估技术，这些技术1)增加学生对科学和科学职业的理解，2)增加学生对专业活动的参与，3)鼓励学生申请科学研究生课程。该计划的活动包括与来自心理学和工业工程系的11名参与教师的监督合作研究计划。支持活动包括应用心理学研究方法的课程工作、研讨会、实地考察和应用心理学会议。产业、政府和教育的研究伙伴通过参与支持活动和研究项目进行合作。广泛的影响该计划的更广泛的影响是通过该计划的明显成功促进机构层面的本科生研究，通过专业的全国传播该计划的特点和结果提供有效的本科生科学教育模式，促进代表不足的群体的参与，并通过与国防、工业和政府实体的伙伴关系将该计划的好处扩展到公共和私营部门。

Summary: The Summer Program in Applied Psychology provides student participants with research training in human factors, health, and industrial/organizational psychology. The program objectives are to increase talented students' interest, understanding, and commitment to research, science, and scientific careers. These objectives should increase and sustain student participation in research, professional activities, and entry into graduate programs. As part of this REU Site, students present the results of their research at the Conference on Applied Psychology, which includes presentations from invited speakers. Follow-through annual activities include travel support for additional professional presentations, collaborative publications, and advising to support applications to graduate programs. Intellectual Merit.The students recruited for this REU Site have strong backgrounds in mathematics, biological science, social science, and/or industrial engineering, exhibit potential interest and commitment to science and research, and are selected mainly from non-research colleges and universities. The main intellectual merit of this program is to identify and evaluate techniques that 1) increase student understanding of science and science careers, 2) increase student participation in professional activities, and 3) encourage student application to graduate programs in science. Program activities include a supervised program of collaborative research with eleven participating faculty from the Psychology and Industrial Engineering Departments. Support activities include course work in research methods in applied psychology, seminars, site-visits, and the Conference in Applied Psychology. Research partners in industry, government, and education collaborate via participation in support activities and research projects.Broader ImpactsThe broader impact of the program is to promote undergraduate research at the institutional level through the visible success of the program, to provide a model of effective undergraduate science education through professional national dissemination of the program characteristics and outcomes, to promote participation by underrepresented groups, and to extend the benefits of the program to the public and private sector through partnerships with defense, industry, and government entities.