REU Site: Re-Inventing America's Urban Water Infrastructure

美国的城市基础设施主要是在世纪中期发展起来的，当时能源价格低廉，城市人口较少，对水生栖息地和温室气体排放等环境影响的认识较少。该国许多地区正经历周期性缺水和历史性干旱，这对水资源造成了前所未有的压力，并促使人们重新思考供水方案。 这种短缺，加上运营和维护现有水基础设施的高昂成本，威胁着经济增长、社会福利和国家安全，并突出表明迫切需要改造美国的水基础设施。斯坦福大学的本科生研究经验（REU）网站计划由工程研究中心（ERC）主办，旨在为城市水的安全，可持续管理创造一个新的范例。 为本科生提供的独特的跨学科研究体验将使来自各种机构的多样化和有才华的学生群体，特别是那些研究机会有限或没有研究机会的学生，沉浸在ReNUWIt研究小组中，从事与管理自然系统和高效工程系统相关的项目。该计划将增加本科生在追求水科学工程高级学位的兴趣，特别强调妇女和少数民族。这个REU网站提供本科生，与ReNUWIt教师，博士后研究员和研究生合作，在为期9周的暑期课程中进行实践研究的机会，使用跨学科，直接解决城市水基础设施设计和水科学/工程方面的主要知识差距的系统级方法。该计划将在位于四个ReNUWIt合作机构校园：斯坦福大学，加州大学伯克利分校，科罗拉多矿业学院和新墨西哥州州立大学。此外，进行研究的学生将参加实验室以外的一系列活动，以了解更多关于更广泛的研究社区，并磨练成为社区成功贡献者所需的技能。这些包括：1）所有REU会议在斯坦福大学校园。2)每周与合作机构的REU学生举行视频会议3）关于技术写作，口头陈述，职业选择的专业发展研讨会。和道德4)与ReNUWIt的工业附属公司董事会和创新合作伙伴的成员互动。REU学生在总结结束时创建的产品-摘要和摘要图形-将在在线ReNUWIt REU画廊中展示，以广泛传播。一些REU学生也将在国家和国际会议上展示他们的工作。

America's urban infrastructure was largely developed in the mid 20th century, a time of inexpensive energy, smaller urban populations, and less awareness of environmental impacts such as damage to aquatic habitat and greenhouse gas emissions. Many regions of the country are experiencing periodic water shortages and historic droughts that have created unprecedented stress on water resources and pushed re-thinking of water supply options. Such shortages, coupled with the high cost of operating and maintaining existing water infrastructure, threaten economic growth, social welfare and national security and underscore the urgent need to transform America's water infrastructure. This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site program at Stanford University, hosted by the Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Re-Inventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt), aims to create a new paradigm for safe, sustainable management of urban water. A unique interdisciplinary research experience for undergraduates will immerse diverse and talented cohorts of students from a variety of institutions, particularly those with limited or no research opportunities, in ReNUWIt research groups, working on projects related to managed natural systems and efficient engineered systems. This program will increase undergraduate students' interests in pursuing advanced degrees in water science engineering, with a particular emphasis on women and minorities.This REU Site offers undergraduates, in collaboration with ReNUWIt faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, opportunities to conduct hands-on research during a 9-week summer program, using cross-disciplinary, systems level approaches that directly address the design of urban water infrastructure and key knowledge gaps in water science/engineering. The program will take place at the four ReNUWIt partner institution campuses located at: Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, Colorado School of Mines, and New Mexico State University. In addition, to conducting research the students will participate in a range of activities outside the lab to learn more about the wider research community and to hone the skills needed to become successful contributors to the community. These include: 1) All REU Meeting on the Stanford campus. 2) Weekly videoconferences with REU students at partner institutions 3)Professional development workshops on technical writing, oral presentations, career options. and ethics. 4) Interaction with members of ReNUWIt's Industrial Affiliates Board and Innovation Partners. Products created by the REU students at the end of the summary-abstracts and summary graphics-will be displayed in the online ReNUWIt REU gallery for wide dissemination. Some of the REU students will also present their work at national and international conferences.