REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE)

机器人作为一门学科，本质上是跨学科的，结合了设计和部署集成系统和解决方案所需的工程的各个方面。随着学生接触机器人技术，他们开始看到这些学科之间的联系，并开始了解他们在课堂上的书本知识如何转化为现实世界的系统，可以帮助社会以积极的方式。随着机器人技术从传统工业环境进入世界各地的公共空间和家庭，它的发展为医疗保健、教育和娱乐等重要经济领域开辟了广泛的新研究机会。这个本科生研究经验（REU）奖，由工程教育和中心的部门共同支持资助，将支持本科生参与沉浸式的10周机器人研究经验，并作为一个直接的结果，他们感兴趣的机会，通过研究生学习。该计划将从当地和全国范围内不提供或提供有限研究机会的机构招募参与者。由于我们预计这一主题对于招募、留住和激励目前在工程学科中代表性不足的学生非常有利，因此将特别强调招募少数族裔和女学生。参与的学生，谁是与教师顾问和研究生导师配对，将进行有意义的机器人研究项目，参观当地的工业实验室，参加每周研讨会上新兴的研究在机器人领域，并参加每周学术充实和技能发展研讨会。 学生将结束与研究报告给他们的同龄人，教师和研究生导师的程序。通过这种身临其境的研究经验，机器人REU学生将分享在满足这个有前途的新机器人领域的挑战，并充分获得在这个跨学科领域的培训的回报。“该网站是由国防部与NSF REU计划合作共同资助的。"

Robotics, as a discipline, is inherently interdisciplinary, combining all aspects of engineering necessary for designing and deploying integrated systems and solutions. As students are exposed to robotics, they begin to see connections among these disciplines and begin to understand how their in-class book knowledge translates into real-world systems that can assist society in positive ways. The push of robotics, as it moves from traditional industrial settings, into public spaces and homes across the world opens up extensive new research opportunities in important economic areas such as healthcare, education, and entertainment. This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) award, funded with co-support from the Division of Engineering Education and Centers, will support the involvement of undergraduate students in an immersive 10-weeks robotics research experience, and as a direct consequence, interest them in opportunities available through graduate study. The program will recruit participants locally and nationwide from institutions that provide no or limited research opportunities. Since we expect this theme to be highly advantageous for recruiting, retaining, and motivating students who are currently underrepresented in engineering disciplines, particular emphasis will be placed on recruitment of minority and female students. Participating students, who are paired with both a faculty advisor and a graduate student mentor, will undertake meaningful robotics research projects, visit local industrial labs, attend weekly seminars on emerging research in the robotics field, and participate in weekly academic enrichment and skill development workshops. Students will conclude the program with research presentations to their peers, faculty, and graduate student mentors. Through this immersive research experience, robotics REU students will share in meeting the challenges of this promising new robotics domain and fully reap the rewards of being trained in this interdisciplinary field."The site is co-funded by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program."