REU site: Experiences in Neural Engineering

智力价值新泽西理工学院(NJIT)这个为期三年的REU现场项目每年将吸引10名本科生参与神经工程领域的研究。REU计划的目标是：1)为了促进广泛的互动，该计划将安排每周两次与学生研究人员、教师导师和研究生教练的会议；2)为确保持续的互动，PI将与研究生教练合作，在他们的实验室环境中与学生研究人员进行即兴会议。这些互动最终应该会促进学生更多的自我指导学习，因为一定程度的独立性对专业发展肯定是至关重要的。此外，还计划安排一系列研讨会、讲习班和活动，以促进职业规划和工业研究、研究生研究、道德操守、准备海报和手稿以及信息素养等领域的专业发展。与会者将被鼓励参加地区性会议，如IEEE东北生物工程会议，这是当地学生研究报告的主要地点，以及更大的会议，如生物医学工程学会年会，其特色是专门的本科生夏季研究报告。最后，根据教师导师的自由裁量权，当项目超过这一水平时，出版物将针对科学期刊。Broader Impact Recruitment努力将针对主要专注于本科教育的学院的本科生。将特别强调每年至少招收两名残疾学生。来自没有生物医学工程(BME)课程的院校的学生只要完成了基础工程课程并表达了与拟议项目相关的研究兴趣，就可以申请。与主要是本科院校(PUI)建立了关系，以促进招收几乎没有研究机会的学生。特别是，首席调查人员已安排从Rose-Hulman、巴克内尔大学和新泽西学院招聘。

Intellectual MeritThis three year REU site program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)will engage ten undergraduate students each year in research focused in the area of neural engineering. The objectives of the REU program are: 1) to facilitate broad interaction, the program will have scheduled meetings with student researchers, faculty mentors, and graduate student coaches twice a week and 2) to ensure consistent interaction, the PIs will work with graduate student coaches to initiate impromptu meetings with student researchers in their laboratory environment. These interactions should ultimately facilitate more self-directed learning on the part of the student, as a level of independence is certainly critical to professional development. In addition, a schedule of seminars, workshops, and activities are planned to promote professional development in the areas of career plans and industrial research, graduate student research, ethics, preparing poster and manuscripts, and information literacy. Participants will be encouraged to attend regional conferences such as the IEEE Northeast Bioengineering Conference, a premier local venue for student research presentation and larger conferences such as the Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting that features dedicated undergraduate summer research presentations. Finally, at the faculty mentors discretion, publications will be targeted to scientific journals when projects excel to that level.Broader ImpactsRecruitment efforts will target undergraduate students from colleges that are focused primarily in undergraduate education. Special emphasis will be placed on recruiting at least two students each year who are disabled. Students from institutions without Biomedical Engineering (BME) programs will be encouraged to apply as long as they have completed fundamental engineering coursework and express research interests relevant to the proposed projects. Relationships have been fostered with Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) to facilitate recruitment of students with few research opportunities. In particular, the Principal Investigators have arranged to recruit from Rose-Hulman, Bucknell University, and the College of New Jersey.