2016 Summer NSF REU, MU CS

http://reu.cs.missouri.edu

 

Program duration: 5/23/2016 (Monday) - 7/29/2016 (Friday)

 

Office: 239 Engineering Build West (EBW)

 

Work schedule

a)      MTuThF: 8 hours, 9am-12pm and 1-6pm in the office or in a lab.

b)      Wednesday: 4 hours in the office or in a lab, and 4 hours for exploration.

c)      You are required to sign up a time sheet posted at the office every day.

 

Weekly program meeting: every Tuesday, 10-12pm or 2-4pm, in 222 Engineering Build West (EBW) (unless announced differently). All mentors are welcome to attend.

 

Weekly research journal of each team due: 5pm every Friday - report daily research activities.

 

Schedule

Date

time

activity

location

(EBW 222)

5/23

Monday

10-11:30 am

2-5 pm

Orientation & Welcome

Pre-survey, paperwork, self-study

 

5/24

Tuesday

10:30-11:30 am

3-4 pm

Why & how to do research by Dr. Calyam

Eldercare and Rehabilitation Technology for Better Health by Dr. Skubic

 

5/25

Wednesday

2-4 pm

Software Defined Networkin by Dr. Calyam

 

5/26

Thursday

10-12 pm

 

a)      How to read and write research papers

b)      How to prepare and give a technical presentation

c)      Computer science ethics. IRB training.

By Dr. Shang

 

5/27

Friday

10-12 pm

REU Project Presentations

by REU mentors

(Check your Box account for related materials)

 

5/31

Tuesday

10-12 pm

Weekly program meeting - project assignment. All graduate mentors are encouraged to attend.

 

6/2

Thursday

1pm - 3pm

MU Data Center Tour

(Dr. Calyam)

920 S. College

6/7

Tuesday

10-12 pm

 

 

Weekly program meeting: Team project presentation (project goals, milestones, OKRs, initial literature survey results)

6/8

Wednesday

8:30am-9:20am

Visit and speak at Columbia Public Schools EEE summer school, grades 6-8

(Ms. Heidi Barnhouse, HBarnhouse@cpsk12.org)

West Middle School (401 Clinkscales Rd, Columbia)

6/14

Tuesday

10-12 pm

Weekly program meeting

 

6/21

Tuesday

10-12 pm

 

Weekly program meeting

 

 

 

6/28

Tuesday

10-12 pm

Weekly program meeting

 

7/5

Tuesday

10-12 pm

Weekly program meeting - Midterm presentation

Midterm report in IEEE latex style due

 

7/12

Tuesday

2-4 pm

Weekly program meeting

 

7/19

Tuesday

2-4pm

Weekly program meeting

 

7/27

Wednesday

2-4pm

Final presentation

Final report in IEEE latex style due

 

7/28

Thursday

10am-3:30pm

MU Summer Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievements Forum

Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center

7/29

Friday

10-12pm

Post-survey, wrap-up

Program lunch

 

 

MU campus-wide summer activities included in and paid for by our REU program (Contact: Katie Hays, haysk@missouri.edu)

*      Intern/mentor BBQ (student & mentor)

*      Evening Seminars

*      MU Summer Forum participation

*      Farewell picnic (student & 3 guests)

*      Newsletters, copies & office supplies

 

Resources

*      Computer networks basics

o   Watch Computer Networks, U. of Washington

*      Research advice

o   Watch Advice to young scientists

*      Software-Defined Networking related materials

o   Watch Software-Defined Networking

o   GENI http://www.geni.net

o   Open Networking Foundation https://www.opennetworking.org 

o   http://people.cs.missouri.edu/~calyamp/publications/geni-cclabs-gree14.pdf

o   http://people.cs.missouri.edu/~calyamp/publications/vdc-analyst-comnet14.pdf

o   http://people.cs.missouri.edu/~calyamp/publications/sciencedmz-refarch-icnc14.pdf

o   http://people.cs.missouri.edu/~calyamp/publications/openFlow-vdc-lb-im13.pdf

*      Reading paper

o   How to Read a Paper

o   How to read a research paper

*      Writing paper

o   Use IEEE publication Word template or LaTeX style files to typeset your report.

*      Giving presentation

o   How to give a good talk

o   The Slide-Structure of a Technical 20-min Presentation

o   MS project presentation examples: Sandeep, Sean

*      Computer science ethics

o   Code of Ethics, ACM

o   Computer and Information Ethics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

o   Social and ethical issues in computer science

*      IRB Training (http://research.missouri.edu/irb/CITI_Instructions) to receive IRB certification

o   Responsible Conduct of Research courses

o   Human Subject Research courses

*      OKR

o   How OKRs work in Google

 

*      Latex resources

o   MikTex as the LaTeX compiler, http://miktex.org/

o   Texmaker as the Editor Environment, http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/

o   Tutorial: https://www.latex-tutorial.com/tutorials

An REU project example: Software Defined Networking on an Android Ad Hoc Network, by Brandon Guttersohn, 2012.

*      Weekly/daily research journal

*      Project Website

*      A conference paper: SDNAN: Software-defined networking in ad hoc networks of smartphones, IEEE Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), pp.861-862, 11-14 Jan. 2013.

*      More about me

 

Mentors

*      Dr. Yi Shang, shangy@missouri.edu; Nick Wergeles, nmw6g7@mail.missouri.edu

*      Dr. Wenjun (Kevin) Zeng, zengw@missouri.edu

*      Dr. Marjorie Skubic, skubicm@missouri.edu

*      Dr. Prasad Calyam, calyamp@missouri.edu