Conference: Undergraduate Spectrum Workshop

本科生频谱研讨会（USW）是由贝勒大学主办的为期3-4天的邀请研讨会，重点是招募新的本科生进入电磁频谱研究和电磁频谱管理的未来培训和职业机会。随着下一代通信和设备连接网络成为我们日常生活的一部分，频谱研究和频谱管理领域对国家越来越重要。为了保持下一代通信的全球领导者地位，并确保未来几代日益连接的设备能够实现国家的健康、繁荣和福利，至关重要的是要开发一个劳动力人才管道，该人才管道意识到频谱研究和频谱管理在我们生活中的关键作用，并经过专业培训，以领导学术、工业、和未来的联邦实验室，这些实验室将在这一领域取得持续的进展。这次会议解决了这些具有高度国家重要性的目标。研讨会将招募学生和教师从贝勒附近的小区域学院，有一个代表性不足的少数民族学生组成的高。该研讨会是基于并借鉴了以前在贝勒大学举办的类似设计和成功的研讨会的经验，其目标类似，即招募学生参加化学培训和职业。研讨会的目标是向学生介绍频谱职业道路，并招募他们参加频谱培训计划和潜在的未来频谱职业。为期3-4天的研讨会期间的活动将包括学术和行业专家的内容交付，并将重点关注学生的互动活动。学生将被安排在5-10人的小组中，以最大限度地发挥个人影响。活动将是跨学科的，包括模拟频谱试验，频谱滤波器设计和测量演习，以及自制雷达系统的测试。活动后小组会议将讨论频谱职业道路，研究生院的选择，以及学生实际感兴趣的其他主题。参与者将在研讨会期间被安置在贝勒大学，并有机会与潜在的未来教师导师互动。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

The Undergraduate Spectrum Workshop (USW) is a 3-4 day invited workshop hosted by Baylor University that focuses on recruiting new undergraduate students into future training and career opportunities in electromagnetic spectrum research and electromagnetic spectrum management. The fields of spectrum research and spectrum management are of increasing importance to the nation as next generation communications and device-connectivity networks are becoming a greater part of our everyday lives. To remain a global leader in next generation communications and to ensure the health, prosperity, and welfare of the nation that will be enabled by future generations of increasingly connected devices, it is critical to develop a workforce talent pipeline that is aware of the critical role that spectrum research and spectrum management play in our lives and that is expertly trained to lead the academic, industrial, and federal labs of the future that will produce continued advances in this area. This conference addresses these goals of high national importance.The workshop will recruit students and faculty from small regional colleges nearby Baylor that have a high composition of underrepresented minority students. The workshop is based on and borrows experience from a similarly designed and successful workshop previously hosted at Baylor University with similar goals to recruit students into training and careers in chemistry. The goal of the workshop is to introduce students to spectrum career paths and to recruit them into spectrum training programs and a potential future spectrum career. The activities during the 3-4 day workshop will include content delivery from academic and industry experts and will also have a strong focus on interactive activities for students. The students will be arranged in small groups of 5-10 participants to maximize the individual impact. Activities will be cross-disciplinary including a mock spectrum trial, a spectrum filter design and measurement exercise, and testing of homemade radar systems. Post-activity panel sessions will discuss spectrum career paths, graduate school options, and other topics of practical interest to students. Participants will be housed at Baylor during the workshop and have a chance to interact with potential future faculty mentors.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.