REU SITE: Research in Consumer Networking Technologies

这笔资金更新了密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校本科生研究经验（REU）站点。本科生将在暑期进行研究，涉及消费者网络中各种有趣且具有挑战性的技术问题。经验丰富的教师导师将领导五个主要研究领域的项目，包括软件定义网络、社交媒体计算、老年护理的社交健康网络、身体区域感知和情感识别以及网络性能优化。学生将参与教师导师正在进行的资助研究，调查技术上具有挑战性的问题，并制定可行的解决方案和见解。他们将有机会在大学、国家和国际各级的不同场所展示他们的研究成果。该网站将专注于从非博士学位授予机构招募学生，特别强调密苏里州及其周边的机构。该项目的智力价值取决于领导和经验丰富的研究小组，他们在研究领域具有出色的专业知识和经验。这些研究活动将有助于更好地理解新兴消费者网络技术中的众多效率、性能、可靠性、可伸缩性和安全性问题以及权衡。在REU站点中集成物联网和软件定义网络等未来互联网技术的方法，将促进对社会计算和医疗保健等领域的经济和生活质量具有重要意义的先进消费者网络服务和应用的快速部署。更广泛的影响包括为研究机会有限的本科生提供一个独特的机会来体验消费者网络跨学科领域的研究。由于已经建立了招聘网络，项目团队计划接触目标学生，并鼓励女工程师和代表性不足的少数民族以及主要来自本科院校的学生申请。由于日常生活和令人兴奋的消费者网络技术之间的密切互动，该项目应该引起本科生的极大兴趣。通过与教师导师和研究生密切合作，研究经验使学生深入了解高级学位的要求，并可能导致学生最终追求高级学位并在科学和工程领域实现职业生涯。由外部评估专家进行的专业评估应有助于有关本科生参与研究的有效结构的教育研究。

This funding renews a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the University of Missouri - Columbia. Undergraduate students will engage in summer research involving a variety of interesting and challenging technical issues in consumer networking. Experienced faculty mentors will lead projects in five major research areas including software defined networking, social media computing, social health networking for eldercare, body-area sensing and emotion recognition, and network performance optimization. The students will participate in the faculty mentors' on-going funded research, investigate technically challenging issues, and develop viable solutions and insights. They will have opportunities to present their research results at various venues at the university, national, and international levels. The site will focus on recruiting students from non-PhD granting institutions with particular emphasis on institutions in and around the state of Missouri.The intellectual merit of the project rests with the leadership an experienced research group with excellent expertise and experience in the research area. The research activities will lead to a better understanding of the multitude of efficiency, performance, reliability, scalability, and security issues and tradeoffs in emerging consumer networking technologies. The approach of integrating future Internet technologies such as Internet-of-Things and software-defined networking in the REU Site will foster the rapid deployment of advanced consumer networking services and applications that are of significance to the economy and quality of life in areas such as social computing and health care.The broader impacts include providing a unique opportunity for undergraduate students with limited research opportunities to experience research in the interdisciplinary areas of consumer networking. With an already established recruitment network, the project team plans to reach the targeted students and encourage applications from women engineers and under-represented minorities as well as students from predominantly undergraduate institutions. The program should be of great interest to undergraduate students due to its close interaction between daily life and exciting consumer networking technologies. The research experiences offer students insight into the requirements of advanced degrees by closely working with faculty mentors and graduate students, and may lead to students ultimately pursuing advanced degrees and fulfilling careers in science and engineering. The professional evaluation by an external assessment specialist should contribute to educational research on effective structures for involving undergraduates in research.