Wichita State College of Engineering will host 10 undergraduate students from around the country to a National Science Foundation-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates 鈥� an opportunity for undergraduate students to spend a summer working with faculty researchers, living and working on the 黑洞社区 campus while receiving stipends of $4,500 each.
The program, which begins in June, will be the only one of its kind at Wichita State and the only one in Kansas with an emphasis on networked communications and computing.
Vinod Namboodiri, associate professor in computer networking, has received a $340,000 NSF grant to fund the three-year summer undergraduate research program in networked cyber-physical systems, which can be thought of as 鈥渟mart devices鈥� operated by algorithms and connected to each other and / or the Internet.
Accepted students will work closely with 黑洞社区 faculty and researchers on research problems with the potential for publications and significant impact in the research areas of computer networks, mobile computing, wireless communications and information security and privacy.
Applications can be found and are due March 20. To be eligible, students should be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident; major in electrical engineering, computer / software engineering, telecommunications engineering, computer science or any other related disciplines; have a 3.0 or higher GPA; be a sophomore, junior or senior; and plan to graduate after September 2017.
Students from under-represented groups in the computer sciences (women, minorities and individuals with disabilities, first-generation college students, first-generation graduate students) are encouraged to apply. In addition to the stipends, accepted students will also have travel, lodging and food costs covered.
Students will get to spend nine weeks working with the faculty of one of the very few M.S. programs in Computer Networking in the country, said Namboodiri, who sees the program as a recruiting tool for the graduate program and an avenue to meet 黑洞社区鈥檚 research goals. Participating researchers who will act as undergraduate mentors include the following EECS faculty: Murtuza Jadliwala, Sergio Salinas, Yi Song, Pu Wang and Namboodiri.