REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley-Information Technology for Sustainability (SUPERB-ITS)

REU 网站：伯克利工程研究暑期本科生项目 - 信息技术促进可持续发展 (SUPERB-ITS)

• 批准号: 1359499
• 负责人: David Culler
• 金额: $ 31.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-02-15 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1359499&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Summer; Undergraduate; Program

This award renews a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of California, Berkeley. The intellectual focus of the proposed research is information technology for sustainability through the efficient extraction, distribution and use of energy. The site will bring together a cohort of 8 undergraduate students per year who, together with faculty mentors, will participate in a range of projects based on the energy and sustainability theme. The site focuses on recruiting a sufficiently diverse pool of students, including women and underrepresented minorities.The main intellectual merit of the proposal is the innovative projects designed to optimize energy consumption and thereby promote sustainability. Example projects are (a) optimal control of building systems; (b) energy efficient air traffic control; (c) energy efficient, power proportional data centers; and (d) energy management systems for smart building infrastructures. A separate strand of work will consider how to retain performance speedups in the presence of low energy devices since often performance and energy consumption are inversely related. Students will be mentored by both faculty and graduate students and will be exposed to all aspects of the research process. The project's broader impacts are technological contributions to the significant national challenge of developing an optimized energy infrastructure for the 21st century. The projects are designed to find ways of reducing wasteful expenditure of energy and to manage energy systems in an efficient way. Thus the project can have a positive impact on the environment, which will lead to an improved quality of life. Moreover, the project trains a diverse pool of undergraduate students including women and underrepresented minorities, students of low socioeconomic status, as well as veterans of the US Armed Services, in acquiring basic research and problem solving skills. Because the proposed activities address critical national problems, students will be inspired to contribute to solutions to these problems by deepening their understanding which, in turn, will lead to their pursuing advanced degrees in science and engineering

该奖项为加州大学伯克利分校的本科生（REU）网站恢复了研究经验。拟议的研究的智力重点是通过有效提取，分配和使用能源来提供可持续性的信息技术。该网站每年将汇集一支由8名本科生组成的队列，他们将与教师导师一起参加基于能源和可持续性主题的一系列项目。该网站的重点是招募足够多样化的学生，包括妇女和代表性不足的少数群体。该提案的主要知识优点是旨在优化能源消耗并从而促进可持续性的创新项目。示例项目是（a）建筑系统的最佳控制； （b）节能空中交通管制； （c）节能，功率比例数据中心； （d）用于智能建筑基础设施的能源管理系统。单独的工作将考虑如何在低能设备的存在下保持性能加速，因为性能和能源消耗往往是相关的。学生将受到教职员工和研究生的指导，并将接触到研究过程的各个方面。该项目的广泛影响是对21世纪开发优化的能源基础设施的重大国家挑战的技术贡献。这些项目旨在找到减少能源消耗并以有效方式管理能源系统的方法。因此，该项目可以对环境产生积极影响，这将导致生活质量的改善。此外，该项目培训了包括妇女和代表性不足的少数民族，社会经济地位低下的学生以及美国武装部队的退伍军人的各种各样的本科生，以获得基础研究和解决问题的能力。由于拟议的活动解决了关键的民族问题，因此将启发学生通过加深他们的理解来为解决这些问题的解决方案做出贡献，这反过来将导致他们在科学和工程领域的高级学位