Program Introduction
Native American students from five Tribal Colleges in the state of North Dakota will participate in a 5-week summer program over the course of three years. The original plan is that each year, a student cohort will participate in one week of pre-training in the U.S. and then visit and study at the host University in Beijing, China for five weeks. However, because of Covid-19, the current program has to be changed to that students from Tribal Colleges will visit University of South Alabama for 5-week in Summer 2022. All participating students will focus on building and testing an Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled environmental monitoring system. In this program, many international researchers and students as well as international education components will be involved to give participating students globally-engaged experience. This program will greatly benefit participating students as: 1) This is a learning experience that may be the key highlight of student participants’ academic careers, which may be especially true for Native American students, as they have less chances for international study. 2) The program will provide participating students with unique opportunities to become globally-engaged scientists and to build their international scientific networks. 3) There are five Tribal Colleges in the state of North Dakota that represent historic tribal nations. The recruitment of this program from these Tribal Colleges will ensure a regionally diverse student group will receive international mentoring and research-based education. 4) The monitoring technology learned by participating students will provide valuable reference and an essential technology reserve. 5) The participating students will build peer-mentoring skills and learn about the unique culture and traditions of foreign countries.
In this project, tasks for participating students include sensor developments, interface circuits designs, wireless sensor network designs, cloud and edge computing system design, and artificial intelligence (AI) system design for Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled systems to realize environmental monitoring, testing the proposed monitoring system on laboratory and field sites, and making reliability-based lifetime analyses.
Organizers and Principal Investigators
Jinhui WangUniversity of South Alabama
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Jill M. D. MotschenbacherNorth Dakota State University
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Amber FinleyNueta Hidatsa Sahnish College
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Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of South Alabama will host the visiting students
Topics in Summer Program
Wireless Networks
Sensor
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Internet Marketing
Cloud Stogage
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Edge Computing
Artificial intelligence
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Visualization System
Energy Harvest
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