Collaborative Research: IRES Track I: Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research in Spain on Smart Connected Systems (UIRiSCS)

西班牙智能连接系统本科跨学科研究每年将支持6名美国本科生，并为他们提供在西班牙萨拉戈萨大学（UZ）进行指导研究的机会。在这个为期三年的项目中，将从曼哈顿学院（MC）和纽约城市大学史坦顿岛学院（CUNY/CSI）中选出18名学生。这个多元文化、跨学科项目的总体目标是通过国际经验，为下一代美国工程师和科学家提供全球合作视角，在智能连接系统领域提供独特的动手教育机会，从而提高美国未来的全球竞争力，提供专业培训，推进和促进科学发展。为了实现这一目标，每年将有六名学生参加：1)在MC和CUNY/CSI的协调下参加旅行前培训讲习班；2)利用暑期8周时间，与UZ教授共同完成项目；3)回国后参与智能互联系统领域的后续合作项目。更广泛影响的核心是增加在科学技术工程和数学（STEM）中代表性不足的学生人数，并参与国际研究，这是不断发展的全球经济的一部分。这项工作还将利用CSI的西班牙语服务机构名称，以及CUNY作为全国最大的公立大学的独特地位，拥有大量未被充分代表的少数民族学生，让这些学生接触到相关机构提供的令人兴奋的本科研究机会。随着智能技术日益成熟的发展，我们正在进入一个智能连接世界的智能连接系统（SCS）时代，它允许使用来自物理对象和虚拟组件的数据源进行智能决策，以优化效率，舒适性，安全性和安全性。SCS的统一研究主题包括传感器、光网络、有线无线混合网络、机器学习、自然语言处理、计算机视觉、图像处理和网络安全等子主题。学生将在西班牙进行的技术创新示例包括：1)塑料光纤作为智能家庭区域网络骨干的前景分析；2)利用自然语言处理和语音识别开发智能家居定制应用。拟议的国际合作将推动知识和方法的前沿，以建立创新，强大和可扩展的智能连接系统，并利用UZ与美国机构之间超过10年的现有合作。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Undergraduate interdisciplinary research in Spain on Smart Connected Systems will support six US undergraduate students per year and provide them the opportunity to conduct mentored research at the University of Zaragoza (UZ) in Spain. In this three-year project, a total of eighteen students will be selected from Manhattan College (MC) and The City University of New York, College of Staten Island (CUNY/CSI). The overarching objective of this multicultural, interdisciplinary project is to provide the next generation of American engineers and scientists with a global perspective on collaboration, unique hands-on educational opportunities in the field of smart connected systems through international experiences thus enhancing future US global competitiveness, providing professional training and advancing and promoting science. To meet this objective, each year a six-student cohort will: 1) participate in a pre-travel training workshop with coordinated efforts from MC and CUNY/CSI; 2) spend 8 weeks in the summer working on the projects with professors from UZ; 3) engage in follow-up collaborative projects in areas of smart connected systems upon return to their home institutions. The core of the broader impacts is to increase the number of students who are under-represented in Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) and to participate in international research which is part of the evolving global economy. The effort will also leverage CSI’s Spanish-serving institution designation as well as CUNY’s unique status as the nation’s largest public university with a large under-represented minority student population to expose those students to the exciting undergraduate research opportunities that the involved institutions offer. With the development of increasingly sophisticated intelligence technologies, we are entering an era of a smart connected world with Smart Connected Systems (SCS), which allows intelligent decision-making using data sources from both physical objects and virtual components to optimized efficiency, comfort, safety, and security. The unifying research theme of SCS includes sub-topics in sensors, optical networks, hybrid wired-wireless networks, machine learning, nature language processing, computer vision, image processing, and cybersecurity. Sample technical innovations that students will conduct in Spain include: 1) Analysis of Plastic Optical Fiber prospects as backbone for Smart Home Area Networks; 2) Development of smart home customized applications using natural language processing and speech recognition. The proposed international collaboration will push the frontiers of knowledge and methodological approaches to build innovative, robust, and scalable smart connected systems and leverage on an over 10-year existing collaboration between UZ and the US institutions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.