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.

通过此REU网站提出的研究活动，参与者将在令人兴奋的虚拟现实和相关领域中接触尖端的研究活动，并在这些经济和科学重要性的关键领域中为全国的全球领导而做出贡献。通过这些有价值的研究经验，将鼓励新一代的工程师和科学家在科学，工程和医学的各个领域培养他们对研究面向研究的职业和研究生计划的兴趣，以完善和尊重他们的研究技能。根据本科参与者的利益，将确定特定的过程领域的研究活动。其中包括制造，医学/医疗保健和深空探索（包括月球任务）。其中一些人将暴露在创建虚拟/混合现实环境方面，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。其他人将获得建立模拟器的经验，以帮助新护士和急救人员有效培训，同时响应当前的Covid-19-19。对NASA的月球任务感兴趣的学生以及该国在空间殖民化的领导地位，可以与NASA工程师和导师互动，以设计模拟器来帮助训练宇航员以及在月球上设计栖息地，以供宇航员生活和工作。 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基于现实的模拟方法和网络物理环境。提供给本科生的研究经验试图鼓励他们从这些领先的研究领域的研究生课程和研究职业。 REU参与者将探讨以下一代信息中心的方法和制造，医疗和空间系统中的框架。制造业领域的研究活动在工业应用中具有巨大的潜力，包括制造微型监视设备以及用于健康监测的微型机器人设备。在医学和医疗保健的背景下，采用基于VR的培训方法将有助于培训的医疗专业人员。将学生暴露于基于VR的模拟器的设计，以帮助COVID-19的急救人员进行有效培训，从而为将工程方法应用于医疗保健领域提供了实用的见解体验。 Artemis Moon Mission将是NASA在太空殖民时期的另一个新时代的里程碑。进行相关的仿真研究将激发和暴露下一代学生进行涉及NASA太空任务环境的ICE研究。计划中的K-12飙升鹰外展活动将为REU学生提供作为K-12学生的STEM大使和导师的机会；长期的影响是在这些面向网络的研究领域中培养少数群体和其他学生的研究文化，并帮助他们成为这些新兴领域的领导者的准备。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来评估的珍贵的支持。