REU Site: Bridging the Cyber and Water Worlds: Cyber-Aquatic Systems for Undergraduate Research and Education

近十年来，地面传感器网络掀起了一波研究热潮，嵌入式网络传感技术彻底改变了人类对陆地物理世界的理解和互动方式。这十年将见证水世界的一场革命：变革性的网络水生技术将使我们能够在水下环境中密集部署静态和移动系统，显著提高我们的监测和勘探能力的空间和时间维度。康涅狄格大学（UConn）的水下传感器网络（UWSN）实验室最近发起了一项关于网络水生系统（CAS）的倡议。中科院计划的一部分将是一个REU网站，为本科生提供参与网络水生系统尖端技术的机会，并鼓励他们通过令人兴奋的研究项目激发兴趣，追求学术事业和专业。这个跨学科的REU网站项目的主要目标是向处于职业生涯早期阶段的本科生介绍网络水生系统的前沿研究和技术，以激发他们的兴趣。这项REU工作，作为与REU网站1156837合作行动的一部分，将招募不同群体的本科生从事研究，这将扩大他们对学术事业和专业的兴趣，并帮助培养一支具有全球竞争力的工程劳动力，配备创新的网络水技术。通过综合研究、教育和推广计划，REU网站将更好地为这些本科生未来在学术界或工业界的职业生涯做好准备。

The last decade has seen a research wave in terrestrial sensor networks, in which the embedded networked sensing technologies have revolutionized the way for human beings to understand and interact with the physical world on the land. This decade will witness a revolution for the water world: transformative cyber-aquatic technologies will enable us to densely deploy static and mobile systems in an underwater environment, significantly enhancing the spatial and temporal dimensions of our monitoring and exploration capabilities. The Underwater Sensor Network (UWSN) Lab at the University of Connecticut (UConn) recently launched an initiative on Cyber-Aquatic Systems (CAS). Part of the CAS initiative will be an REU site offering undergraduate students to participate in the cutting-edge technologies of cyber-aquatic systems and encouraging them to pursue academic careers and professionals by sparking interests through exciting research projects. A major goal of this interdisciplinary REU site project is to introduce the cutting-edge research and technologies in cyber-aquatic systems to undergraduate students in the early stages of their careers to spark their interests.This REU work, as part of a collaborative action with REU site 1156837, will recruit a diverse group of undergraduate students to engage in research that will broaden their interest in academic careers and professions and help develop a globally competitive engineering workforce equipped with innovative cyber-aquatic technologies. Through integrated research, education and outreach programs, this REU site will better prepare these undergraduate participants for future careers in academia or industry.