ERSP engages extremely bright and motivated second year students (who are also mostly women and underrepresented minorities) in research apprenticeships, to get them trained to do research as well as excited about the field.
Faculty mentors open their research group meetings or 1 on 1 student meetings to allow ERSP students to sit in. Mentors (or their grad students) also take an active but well-supported role in guiding students' research during one academic year.
Below are some answers to some questions you might have:
1. What's the commitment on your end?
2. What's in it for you?
3. Do you have to commit for the full 3 quarters?
4. Besides attending your research group meetings, what will these students be doing?
If you know already that you would like to participate, please send me the following information:
1. Title of your research project (or just name your research area) and a brief description of your project or projects. We'll refine this over the summer, so it's OK if it's high-level or vague.
2. Day and time of your group meetings in Fall 2019 (if known). If you have not yet scheduled meetings for Fall 2019, just let me know that too.
3. Whether the engagement would likely be with a larger research group, or more likely with you and a single graduate student.
ERSP-UCSB is part of a multi-institutional scaling effort of UC San Diego's CSE Early Research Scholars Program. For more information about that program, example projects and outcomes, please visit http://ersp.ucsd.edu/
Please let me know if you are interested by mid-July (around 7/20/19).
I'm happy to answer any questions you have via email or in person.