REU Sites: EURECA: Extensible Undergraduate Research Experience in Communication Applications

REU 站点：EURECA：通信应用方面可扩展的本科研究经验

• 批准号: 0552741
• 负责人: Sriram Vishwanath
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-02-01 至 2010-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0552741&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Sites; EURECA; Extensible; Undergraduate

BacgroundThis project has been created with the aim of delivering the state-of-the-art research facilities in networking and communications the University of Texas at Austin to the vast underserved undergraduate population in the State of Texas. Students from seven distinct universities with programs in Engineering and Computer Science that form part the University of Texas System Arlington, Austin, Brownsville, Dallas, El Paso, Pan American and San Antonio will be actively recruited to participate in the EURECA endeavor. The program has been designed to ensure a significant participation of minorities and of disadvantaged communities in it. Minorities form more than 40% of the undergraduate population in the UT System, with UT Austin alone graduating the second largest number of minorities in the entire nation. In addition, UT Brownsville, El Paso, Pan American and San Antonio are minority institutions. Special partnerships have been formed between the seven universities to ensure the success of this program in reaching out and advertising, selecting worthy candidates and finally, in the follow-up process. Most importantly, our partnerships with other members of the UT System offer the knowledge and facilities possessed by UT Austins faculty to underserved students from institutions with limited resources and/or without graduate programs. The Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) with thirteen professors and over five labs Network Engineering Lab, MIMO Communications Lab, Wireless Networking and RF Propagation Lab, Embedded Signal Processing Lab, Image and Video Engineering Lab and the new Optical Communications Lab forms the foundation for this project. All of the WNCG faculty members are part of the EURECA team, and will supervise undergraduate research as part of EURECA, while the WNCG staff will provide full logistical and administrative support for the endeavor. The EURECA team also includes educational research specialists to facilitate and improve this research interaction, a researcher from industry and one faculty member per University for all the other participating Universities. The undergraduate research projects have been designed to provide participants with a gamut of options, with subgroups of faculty from WNCG spearheading each effort. Participants will be urged to interact with all of UT Austins EURECA members to identify their true calling in research, and will subsequently be assigned to a mentor that will guide them through their stay in Austin. A key component of every research project is its extensibility providing students with the capacity to build on knowledge provided to them by their mentor and the PI to generate independent results, and to sustain this effort after returning to their parent institutions. The pre-existing relationships between faculty in the UT System and the new partnerships formed will prove to be an invaluable resource that secures such an extensible research experience. In addition, the PI will deliver bi-weekly lectures to enhance the participants writing and oral presentation skills, and organize a mini-symposium to culminate the summer program. The EURECA teams objective is to generate sustained research interest among undergraduates so that they become tomorrows leaders in industry and academia. This project has thus been meticulously designed to meet this goal.Intellectual MeritUT Austin is one of the premier research institutions in the nation, and the faculty members constituting the EURECA team have extensive experience both performing and conducting research. Many faculty members in this team also have considerable experience working with undergraduates from across institutions. The research projects in the EURECA endeavor have been created as a focused plan to guide the student from a passive learning state to the state of being an active self-sustaining researcher. Broader Impact Beyond impacting on the minority and underprivileged communities in Texas, and hence that of the entire nation, EURECAs research tasks also enhance the lives of the surrounding community. Projects such as one providing wireless access to impoverished sections of the local community proves to be an invaluable and satisfying experience to the undergraduate student, while inspiring youth in the community, specially women and other underrepresented groups, towards higher education in engineering.

Bacground这项项目的创建是为了提供德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的网络和通信的最先进的研究设施，以向得克萨斯州的广阔服务不足的本科生提供。来自七个不同的大学的学生，具有工程和计算机科学课程，构成了德克萨斯大学阿灵顿大学，奥斯汀，布朗斯维尔，达拉斯，埃尔帕索，泛美和圣安东尼奥的一部分，将被积极招募参加Eureca Endeavor。该计划旨在确保少数民族和处境不利的社区的大量参与。少数民族在UT系统中占40％以上的本科人口，仅UT Austin就毕业了全国第二大少数民族。此外，UT Brownsville，El Paso，Pan American和San Antonio是少数民族机构。这七所大学之间已经建立了特殊的伙伴关系，以确保该计划在伸出和广告，选择有价值的候选人，最后在后续过程中取得成功。最重要的是，我们与UT系统的其他成员的合作伙伴关系为UT Austins教职员工所拥有的知识和设施提供了资源有限和/或没有研究生课程的机构服务不足的学生。无线网络和通信小组（WNCG）与十三位教授以及超过五个实验室网络工程实验室，MIMO通信实验室，无线网络和RF传播实验室，嵌入式信号处理实验室，图像和视频工程实验室以及新的Optical Communications构成了该项目的基础。所有WNCG教职员工都是Eureca团队的一部分，并将监督本科研究作为Eureca的一部分，而WNCG员工将为努力提供全面的后勤和行政支持。 Eureca团队还包括教育研究专家，以促进和改善这一研究互动，来自行业的研究人员和所有其他参与大学的大学的一名教师。本科研究项目旨在为参与者提供一系列选择，而WNCG的教职员工率先为每一项努力。将敦促参与者与所有UT Austins Eureca成员进行互动，以确定他们在研究中的真实呼吁，随后将分配给指导者，以指导他们在奥斯汀的住宿。每个研究项目的一个关键组成部分是其可扩展性，为学生提供了基于导师和PI提供的知识来建立独立成果的能力，并在返回其家族机构后维持这一努力。 UT系统中的教职员工与形成的新合作伙伴关系之间的先前存在的关系将被证明是一种宝贵的资源，可确保这种可扩展的研究经验。此外，PI将每两周举行一次讲座，以增强参与者的写作和口头演讲技巧，并组织一个迷你群岛以最终达到夏季计划。 Eureca团队的目标是在本科生中产生持续的研究兴趣，以便他们成为工业和学术界的明天领导者。因此，该项目经过精心设计以实现这一目标。智能Meritut Austin是全国首要的研究机构之一，构成Eureca团队的教职员工在表演和进行研究方面拥有丰富的经验。该团队中的许多教职员工还拥有与来自各个机构的大学生一起工作的丰富经验。 Eureca努力的研究项目是作为一项重点计划创建的，旨在指导学生从被动学习状态到成为积极的自我维持研究人员的状态。对得克萨斯州的少数群体和贫困社区的影响，更广泛的影响，因此，整个国家的研究任务也可以增强周围社区的生活。诸如提供无线访问当地社区的贫困部分的项目被证明是本科生的宝贵和令人满意的经历，同时激发了社区中的青年，特别是妇女和其他代表性不足的团体，对工程学的高等教育。