REU Site: SURF-IT: Exploring Integrative System Design at UCSC

该奖项提供资金，以更新现有的成功CISE研究经验，本科生网站在加州-圣克鲁斯（UCSC）的大学。 UCSC的信息技术夏季本科生研究奖学金（SURF-IT）提供了一个集中在集成系统设计的密集和个性化的夏季研究计划。 SURF-IT是一个为期9周的暑期课程，包括由UCSC教职员工直接监督的研究。学生们还每周举行一次关于研究生院准备，道德和研究报告的会议，以及到当地邻近的硅谷研究实验室进行实地考察，以及一些社交活动。夏季课程结束时，SURF-IT学生将展示研究海报。其目标是通过帮助有动力的学生获得研究生学位，促进计算机科学和工程的多样性，然后成为全国未来几代大学生的积极榜样。为了更好地实现这一目标，该网站与SURF-IT校友保持持续联系，以帮助他们申请研究生院并取得成功，以及最终的职业生涯。智力优点：学生们参加了UCSC计算机工程系内的综合系统设计的各种资助研究项目。每个项目的特殊智力价值各不相同，但所有学生都将学习将其传统的学术培训应用于信息技术前沿的开放式研究问题。该网站有一组具有杰出经验和专业知识的导师来指导每个项目的智力部分。更广泛的影响：更广泛的影响围绕着将来自信息技术代表性不足的群体的个人纳入其中，如妇女和种族/少数民族。这些人正在走向学术界和工业界的领导地位，从而为下一代提供了积极的榜样。该计划和其他REU网站的组合，确保扩大参与计算机科学和计算机工程，以及训练有素的信息技术人员的国内池增加。

This award provides funding to renew the existing successful CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site at the University of California - Santa Cruz (UCSC). The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology (SURF-IT) at UCSC provides an intensive and personalized summer research program focused on integrative systems design. SURF-IT is a 9-week summer program that includes research directly supervised by a UCSC faculty member. Students also have weekly meetings on graduate school preparation, ethics, and research presentation, as well as field trips to local neighboring Silicon Valley research laboratories, and a number of social activities. The summer program concludes with a research poster presentation by the SURF-IT students. The goal is to promote diversity in computer science and engineering by assisting motivated students in obtaining graduate degrees, who then become positive role models for future generations of college students throughout the nation. To better achieve this goal, the site maintains continuing contact with SURF-IT alumni to assist them in applying to and succeeding in graduate school, as well as in their eventual careers. Intellectual merit: The students join a variety of funded research projects in integrative system design within UCSC's department of computer engineering. The special intellectual merit of each project varies, however all students will learn to apply their traditional academic training to open-ended research problems at the forefront of information technology. The site has a group of mentors with outstanding experience and expertise to direct the intellectual component of each project.Broader Impacts: The broader impacts revolve around the focus on inclusion of individuals from groups underrepresented in information technology, such as women and racial/ethnic minorities. These individuals are moving toward leadership positions in academia and industry, thus providing positive role models for a next generation. The combination of this program and other REU sites ensures broadened participation in computer science and computer engineering, as well as an increased domestic pool of highly trained information technologists.