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Mubarak A. Shah, Kevin W. Bowyer, Louise Stark and Niels da Vitoria Lobo
This project represents a continuation of a Research Experiences for
Undergraduates site which has operated successfully for the past seven
years. Over sixty undergraduate students from a half dozen institutions
in Florida have participated in this program. The key distinctive elements of
our approach are (1) to have a full calendar year experience planned for the
participants, so that they have time to follow a substantial project through to
completion, (2) to present each participant with several possible project
topics, so that they can feel they have chosen a project which is most
interesting to them, (3) to immerse the participants in the general research
environment essentially as if they were graduate students, by having them meet
with the faculty member once each week to discuss their project, participate in
the weekly research group meetings, attend research presentations and meet with
visiting researchers, and (4) to follow through over the year by working with
the students to write a technical report on their project, to prepare for the
GREs and to apply to graduate programs. In past years, a large fraction of our
REU participants have been able to prepare a paper for submission to a
conference, have the paper accepted and then attend the conference to present
the paper. Several past participants have even accomplished substantial enough
research to also result in journal publications. Many of our past participants
are now pursuing graduate studies at various institutions.