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CREU:
Collaborative Research
Experience
for Undergraduates in
Computer Science and Engineering
 Sheila Castaņeda Program Co-Director (CRA-W) |
 Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones Program Co-Director (CDC) |
The Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) and the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), are pleased to announce a program that involves undergraduate students in research. The goal of this initiative is to increase the numbers of women and minorities who continue on to graduate school in computer science and engineering.
The program, called Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU), is designed to provide positive research experiences for teams of undergraduates who will work during the academic year at their home institutions. Formerly administered as the CREW program, the program has been expanded to encourage young computer scientists and engineers from all underrepresented groups to consider graduate school, either directly or indirectly.
Students will work with one or two sponsoring faculty members on a project for which monetary support is typically not available. Students will each receive a stipend of $3,000 for their work. Each project may also request $500, to be used for special equipment, travel, or supporting materials.
Students will be required to maintain a weekly journal and website documenting their progress on the project. A mid-project progress report will be required. At the end of the project, students will be required to submit a one-page summary of their work. These summaries will be posted on the CRA-W web site. In addition, students are also encouraged to submit papers and to present their work to other appropriate journals and conferences.
For a similar program that requires multidisciplinary research and summer work, please see the Multidisciplinary Research Opportunities for Women (MRO-W) website at http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/mrow/ . For a summary of all undergraduate research programs see http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/UgradResearch/.
The CREU on-line application site is now open!
General CREU Guidelines
Basic Eligibility
Students must have completed two years of undergraduate study at the college level. Priority will be given to students who will be juniors in the fall of 2008.
Students must have completed at least four courses in computer science or computer engineering.
Projects must be directly related to computer science or computer engineering and be suitable for undergraduate research.
Applications must be jointly submitted by the proposing students and one or two sponsoring faculty members.
Because of funding sources, only proposals submitted from institutions located in the United States or Canada will be considered. In addition, the number of Canadian projects that will be funded is limited.
Funding for international student may be limited due to restrictions from the funding sources.
Team Membership
Teams consisting of all women or all underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to apply.
A limited number of projects will be considered that also include student(s) from non-underrepresented groups. Because of funding limitations, however, financial support is available only for students from underrepresented groups.
Teams of two to four students are strongly encouraged, but a limited number of proposals consisting of a single student working with a faculty mentor will be considered.
While we expect most proposals to be from students at their home institutions, a limited number of distributed teams with remote mentors will be considered.
Evaluation Criteria
The scope and goals of the project should be reasonable and realistic, based upon the students' prior education and experience.
The plan for the project should be well-defined and should describe a collaborative approach to be taken.
The project should warrant background research on the part of the students, and should have an active, investigative and experiential nature by which the students can discover their results.
The proposal should be complete and well-written.
Students should be actively involved in writing the proposal, with guidance and support of the sponsoring faculty mentor.
The project should further the goal of the CREU program to increase the numbers of women and minorities who continue on to graduate school in computer science and engineering.
The project should enable student empowerment, leadership development, confidence-building, and skill-building in project management.
The students should have good potential for doing independent work.
The sponsor(s) should have the background necessary to oversee the research and there should be an appropriate strategy for keeping the students on track.
The sponsor(s) and students must have enough time to devote to the research project so weekly meetings can occur with additional independent work taking place outside of these meetings.
It is assumed that all students will be active participants in the project throughout the entire 2008-2009 academic year.
Timeline
Application Deadline: May 9, 2008
Notification of Awards: will be emailed June 17th.
Project Research: academic year 2008/09
Midterm Progress Report: January 10, 2009
Final Summary Report: May 15, 2009
Questions
Please send any inquiries or questions about the CREU program to
Sponsorship
This initiative is sponsored by the Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) in cooperation with the National Science Foundation, USENIX and the National Science Foundation's Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure's Education, Outreach and Training program.
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