REU Site: SURE - Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering

REU 网站：SURE - 暑期本科生工程研究

• 批准号: 0453295
• 负责人: Gary May
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-05-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0453295&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; SURE; Summer; Undergraduate

Abstract for May, EEC-0453295:This proposal supports the continuation of Georgia Tech's Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) program to serve ten students per year for three years. The overall goal of SURE is to expose underrepresented minority students to electrical and computer engineering research, and as a direct consequence, to interest them in opportunities available through graduate study. Key elements of the program include ten weeks of challenging research in critical electrical and computer engineering areas (including optoelectronics, integrated circuits and devices, and digital signal processing), pairing of each student with both a faculty advisor and a graduate student mentor, a weekly seminar on emerging research in the dynamic field of electrical and computer engineering, opportunities to visit local industrial research sites, preparation of oral and written research summaries, and social and cultural interactions between the student participants and their graduate mentors.Programs such as SURE are an essential component of enhancing minority enrollment in advanced degree programs and ultimately, increasing the size of the minority Ph.D. population. The persistence gap between majority students and underrepresented minorities is evident only when proceeding from the Bachelor's to the Master's degree. The absence of such a gap when proceeding from either the B.S. or M.S. to the Ph.D. implies that once admitted to graduate school, underrepresented students are equally committed to pursuing the doctorate. The primary challenge therefore is getting underrepresented students to consider the graduate school option. This is a challenge that is currently being met by SURE. Since its inception in 1992, approximately 90% of SURE's nearly 250 total participants have gone to graduate school, and nearly half of those have come to Georgia Tech.

5 月摘要，EEC-0453295：该提案支持继续开展佐治亚理工学院的暑期本科生工程研究 (SURE) 计划，每年为 10 名学生提供服务，为期三年。 SURE 的总体目标是让代表性不足的少数族裔学生接触电气和计算机工程研究，并作为直接结果，让他们对通过研究生学习获得的机会感兴趣。 该计划的关键要素包括在关键电气和计算机工程领域（包括光电子学、集成电路和设备以及数字信号处理）进行为期十周的挑战性研究，为每个学生配备一名教职顾问和一名研究生导师，每周一次关于电气和计算机工程动态领域的新兴研究的研讨会、参观当地工业研究场所的机会、口头和书面研究摘要的准备以及学生参与者与其研究生导师之间的社会和文化互动。SURE 等项目是提高少数民族入学率的重要组成部分学位课程，并最终增加少数博士学位的规模。人口。仅在从学士到硕士学位的过程中，大多数学生和代表性不足的少数群体之间的持久性差距才显而易见。从 B.S. 出发时不存在这样的差距。或硕士攻读博士学位这意味着一旦被研究生院录取，代表性不足的学生同样致力于攻读博士学位。因此，主要的挑战是让代表性不足的学生考虑研究生院的选择。这是 SURE 目前正在应对的挑战。自 1992 年成立以来，SURE 的近 250 名参与者中约有 90% 曾就读于研究生院，其中近一半就读于佐治亚理工学院。