REU Site: Research Experiences in Information Centric Engineering for Emerging Process Domains

REU 网站：新兴过程领域信息中心工程的研究经验

基本信息

批准号：
2050960
负责人：
Joe Cecil
金额：
$ 42.53万
依托单位：
Oklahoma State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-05-15 至 2024-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050960&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
REU Site Research Experiences Information

项目摘要

Through this REU Site’s proposed research activities, the participants will be exposed to cutting-edge research activities in exciting Virtual Reality and related areas and contribute to the nation’s global leadership in these key areas of economic and scientific importance. Through these valuable research experiences, a new generation of engineers and scientists will be encouraged to refine and hone their research skills while fostering their interest in research oriented careers and graduate programs in various areas of science, engineering and medicine. Depending on the interests of the undergraduate participants, a specific process domain will be identified for their research activities. These include manufacturing, medicine/health care and deep space exploration (including the Moon Mission). Some of them will be exposed to becoming skilled at creating Virtual/Mixed Reality environments to help train surgeons and other health care professionals in surgery and other medical procedures. Others will gain experience building simulators to help new nurses and first responders be trained effectively while responding to the current covid-19 pandemic. Students interested in NASA’s Moon Mission and the Nation’s leadership in the colonization of space can interact with NASA engineers and mentors in designing simulators to help train astronauts as well as design habitats on the Moon for the astronauts to live and work. This project will provide opportunities for Women, under-represented minorities (including physically disabled students) and others to information technology and cyber oriented research areas and help prepare them to become leaders in these emerging areas of importance.The overall goal of this REU Site is to provide meaningful research experiences to a new generation of engineers and scientists in emerging process domains with an emphasis on Information Centric Engineering (ICE) techniques including design of 3D Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality based simulation approaches and cyber-physical environments. Such research experiences provided to undergraduate students seek to encourage them towards graduate programs and research careers in these leading-edge research areas. The REU participants will explore Next Generation Information Centric approaches and frameworks in manufacturing, medical and space systems. The research activities in manufacturing domains hold significant potential for industrial applications including fabrication of miniature surveillance devices, and micro robotic devices for health monitoring. In the context of medicine and healthcare, the adoption of VR based training approaches will contribute to better trained medical professionals. Exposing students to the design of VR based simulators to help covid-19 first responders be trained effectively provides a practical insightful experience on applying engineering approaches to healthcare domains. The Artemis Moon Mission will be a milestone for NASA heralding another new era in the colonization of space. Working on related simulation research will excite and expose the next generation of students to ICE research involving NASA space mission contexts. The planned K-12 Soaring Eagle outreach activities will provide opportunities for REU students to serve as STEM ambassadors and mentors to K-12 students; the long-term impact is to foster a research culture among minority and other students in these cyber oriented research areas and help prepare them to become leaders in these emerging areas of importance.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.

通过该 REU 站点拟议的研究活动，参与者将接触到令人兴奋的虚拟现实及相关领域的前沿研究活动，并通过这些宝贵的研究经验，为国家在这些具有经济和科学重要性的关键领域的全球领导地位做出贡献。将鼓励新一代工程师和科学家完善和磨练他们的研究技能，同时培养他们对科学、工程和医学各个领域的研究型职业和研究生课程的兴趣，具体取决于本科生参与者的兴趣，特定的过程领域。将因其研究活动而被确定。其中包括制造、医学/医疗保健和深空探索（包括月球任务），其中一些人将接触到创建虚拟/混合现实环境的技能，以帮助培训外科医生和其他医疗保健专业人员进行手术和其他医疗程序。其他人将获得构建模拟器的经验，以帮助新护士和急救人员在应对当前的 covid-19 大流行的同时，对 NASA 的月球任务和国家在太空殖民方面的领导力感兴趣的学生可以与 NASA 工程师和导师进行设计互动。该项目将为女性、弱势群体（包括身体残疾的学生）和其他人提供信息技术和网络导向研究领域的机会。帮助他们做好准备成为这些新兴重要领域的领导者。该 REU 网站的总体目标是为新兴过程领域的新一代工程师和科学家提供有意义的研究经验，重点是信息中心工程 (ICE) 技术，包括的设计REU 参与者将向本科生提供基于 3D 虚拟现实/增强现实的模拟方法和网络物理环境的研究经验，以鼓励他们进入研究生课程和研究职业。制造、医疗和空间系统中的研究活动具有巨大的工业应用潜力，包括制造微型监控设备和用于健康监测的微型机器人设备，以及基于 VR 的采用。培训方法将有助于更好地接受培训让学生接触基于 VR 的模拟器的设计，以帮助 covid-19 急救人员得到有效的培训，为将工程方法应用于医疗保健领域提供了实用的、富有洞察力的经验，这将是 NASA 的一个里程碑，预示着另一个新时代的到来。相关模拟研究的工作将激发下一代学生的兴趣，并使他们接触到涉及 NASA 太空任务背景的 ICE 研究。计划中的 K-12 Soaring Eagle 外展活动将为 REU 学生提供担任 STEM 的机会。 K-12 学生的大使和导师；长期影响是在这些面向网络的研究领域培养少数族裔和其他学生的研究文化，并帮助他们成为这些新兴重要领域的领导者。该奖项是 NSF 的法定使命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，并被认为值得支持。