REU Site: Modeling and Industrial Applied Mathematics

北卡罗莱纳州立大学（NCSU）的REU项目旨在让更多的本科生对数学的学术和非学术职业感兴趣。我们通过让学生有机会在一个支持性的、协作的环境中从事应用研究问题，这是一个充满活力的研究部门与工业和政府实验室合作的一部分。我们REU项目的跨学科性质吸引了那些不一定认为自己主要对数学感兴趣的学生（有些是双学位，或者有数学辅修）。通过这个暑假的经历，我们希望向他们展示数学模型的力量，并引导他们走向数学科学的职业生涯。在我们的REU项目中，学生将接触到工业和政府实验室研究中出现的具有挑战性和令人兴奋的现实问题。这种体验给参与者带来了传统课程无法带来的好处。学生学习有价值的应用数学技巧，并在团队中完成共同的目标。REU问题的复杂性和开放性为学习新技术提供了挑战。事实上，可能没有现成的结构或结果体来涵盖最终的问题表述，这只会加剧兴奋。这些REU学生看到了大学以外的人对他们工作的重视，并学会了欣赏数学在商业和工业中的应用。

The REU program at North Carolina State University (NCSU) aims to get more undergraduates interested in pursuing academic and nonacademic careers in mathematics. We do this by giving students the opportunity to work on applied research problems in a supportive, collaborative environment that is part of a vibrant research department with collaborations in industry and government laboratories. The interdisciplinary nature of our REU program attracts students who do not necessarily think of themselves as primarily interested in mathematics (some are double majors, or have math minors). Through this summer experience we hope to show them the power of mathematical models and redirect them toward a career in the mathematical sciences. In our REU program students are exposed to challenging and exciting real-world problems arising in industrial and government laboratory research. This experience benefits its participants in ways not possible with traditional coursework. Students learn valuable techniques of applied mathematics and work in teams to accomplish common objectives. The complexity and open-endedness of our REU problems provides a challenge that makes learning new techniques worthwhile. The fact that there may be no ready-made structures or body of results to cover the final problem formulation only compounds the excitement. These REU students see the value placed on their work by those outside the University and learn to appreciate the utility of mathematics in business and industry.