REU Site: Space Science and Engineering Research

弗吉尼亚理工大学本科生（REU）暑期项目的研究经验侧重于空间科学和工程研究。 NSF的资金支持一个为期三年的计划，开始与支持6 REU学生参与者在第一年，8在第二年，10在第三年，因为我们获得经验，并建立该计划。 我们的目标是为高年级本科REU学生提供空间气象科学与工程方面的引人入胜的，高质量的学习和跨学科研究经验，这是一门对我们的技术社会越来越重要的学科。 每年夏天至少有一半的参与者将是代表性不足的学生，至少有一半将来自研究项目有限的机构。 学生将选择研究项目，并将在教师和高级研究生或博士后学者的指导和指导下单独或小团队工作。 通过这个REU计划，参与者将：（1）获得智力创造力和独立性;（2）使用苏格拉底认知策略对知识领域进行推理和批判性思考;（3）向不同的受众清楚地阐述研究问题，方法和结果（科学家、工程师和社区）;（4）使用高质量的方法和分析方法，为现实世界的空间研究做出重大和积极的贡献;（5）了解空间气象现象及其对技术的潜在影响，以及它们的美丽和神秘;（6）发展成为空间科学信使的技能，以提高空间科学对公众的可及性和意义。 发展我们对空间环境的科学认识是一项重要的国家事业，弗吉尼亚理工大学的空间科学和工程研究有助于了解太阳辐射与地球环境的复杂相互作用。 这是通过利用空间现象地面测量、卫星现场测量和开发小型卫星有效载荷新技术以及空间等离子体理论研究和计算机模拟的研究方案来实现的。 该计划的预期影响是吸引有才华的本科生在STEM领域进行研究生学习，从而培养一支能够为行业，学术和政府需求做出贡献的科学和技术劳动力。

This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) summer program at Virginia Tech is focused on space science and engineering research. NSF funding supports a three-year program that begins with support for 6 REU student participants during the first year, 8 during the second year, and 10 during the third year as we gain experience and build up the program. Our goal is to provide upper division undergraduate REU students with an engaging, high-quality learning and interdisciplinary research experience in space weather science and engineering, a discipline of increasing importance to our technology based society. At least half of the participants each summer will be underrepresented students and at least half will be from institutions with limited research programs. Students will select research projects and will work individually or in small teams guided and mentored by faculty and senior graduate students or post-doctoral scholars. Through this REU program, the participants will: (1) acquire intellectual creativity and independence; (2) reason and think critically about the knowledge domain using Socratic cognitive strategies; (3) clearly articulate research problems, methods and results to diverse audiences (scientists, engineers, and communities); (4) contribute significantly and actively to real-world space research using high-quality methodological and analytical approaches; (5) understand space weather phenomena and their potential impacts on technology, as well as their beauty and mystery; and (6) develop skills to be space science messengers to enhance the accessibility and meaningfulness of space science to the general public. The development of our scientific understanding of the space environment is an important national enterprise and the space science and engineering research at Virginia Tech contribute to the understanding of the complex interactions of solar radiation with the Earth's environment. This is accomplished through research programs that utilize ground-based measurements of space phenomena, in-situ satellite-based measurements and the development of new technology for small satellite payloads, as well as theoretical investigations and computer simulations of space plasmas. The expected impact of this program is to attract talented undergraduate students to graduate study in STEM areas thereby developing a scientific and technical workforce that can contribute to industry, academic and government needs.