NSF REU: Smart Cities: Advancing Mobility
University of Nevada Las Vegas·Las Vegas, NV·2026 cycle
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Smart Cities are no longer a futuristic dream of science fiction writers but they are emerging as a reality in research labs, industry, and, increasingly, in everyday life. This REU Site project aims to educate and inspire undergraduate researchers to address challenges of advancing mobility. The project will have broad impacts on both the participants and society by advancing research in this area and by expanding and strengthening the STEM pipeline by recruiting students from a diverse range of backgrounds. This project’s main goals are two-fold: to accelerate advances in Smart Cities and to point students toward research problems that are not only interesting but also critical to society as guided by their faculty mentors at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. These overarching goals are also synergistic with the Nevada-South Smart Community Vision with its stated goals of increasing public sector efficiency, facilitating economic growth, and improving citizen quality of life through mobility/transportation, livable communities, energy efficiency, and public safety. Through the project’s research and co-curricular activities, we aim not only to train undergraduate researchers in specific skills but also to broaden their world view and inspire them to engage in research that will solve the most challenging and critical problems facing us as a discipline and as a global community.
Smart Cities, Mobility, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Connected Automated Vehicles (CAV), Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X), Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The ideal candidate should have completed introductory Engineering courses in EE/CPE/CS and be comfortable with programming. Python experience is a plus. Specific projects are listed on the program website http://smartcities.sites.unlv.edu/ which provides more specific details. Undergraduate student participants must be U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, or permanent residents of the United States. An undergraduate student is a student who is enrolled in a degree program (part-time or full-time) leading to a baccalaureate or associate degree. Students who are transferring from one college or university to another and are enrolled at neither institution during the intervening summer may participate. High school graduates who have been accepted at an undergraduate institution but who have not yet started their undergraduate study are also eligible to participate. Students who have received their bachelor's degree and are no longer enrolled as undergraduates are not eligible to participate.
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