AD-A25 8 231 Iuuirnuuull Final Report Summer Intern Program June/July '92 W. Appelbe College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 Technical contact: William Appelbe (404)894-6187 DT IC SELECT1E DS~EvU 0 03 i Summary E This report summarizes the summer internship program conducted this summer, supported by an ONR grant (N00014-92-J-1828, Georgia Tech bud- get C-36-542). The report describes the work undertaken by the students, results of the program, and future plans. Overall, the internship program was a complete success. Every one of the six students in the program completed a significant research project under supervision of a faculty member and rated their experience highly. Three of the students have continued to work on research projects within the College during the Fall quarter. We plan to run a similar program again next summer, with perhaps a dozen students and more forward planning and recruitment. We propose to use the excess funds as seed money for this program. Approved for public release, A Distribution Unlimited 92-30924 I=hIII IE ui i
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AD-A25 8 231Iuuirnuuull
Final ReportSummer Intern Program
June/July '92
W. Appelbe
College of ComputingGeorgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
Technical contact:
William Appelbe (404)894-6187
DT ICSELECT1E
DS~EvU 0 03 iSummary E
This report summarizes the summer internship program conducted thissummer, supported by an ONR grant (N00014-92-J-1828, Georgia Tech bud-
get C-36-542). The report describes the work undertaken by the students,results of the program, and future plans. Overall, the internship program wasa complete success. Every one of the six students in the program completed asignificant research project under supervision of a faculty member and ratedtheir experience highly. Three of the students have continued to work onresearch projects within the College during the Fall quarter. We plan to runa similar program again next summer, with perhaps a dozen students and
more forward planning and recruitment. We propose to use the excess fundsas seed money for this program.
Approved for public release,A Distribution Unlimited
Statement A per Andre Van TilborgONR Code 1133Arlington, VA 22217-5000
NWW 12/9/92DTIC ar.Ti-T•T
1 Program Organization
The original goal of the summer internship program was:" The goal of the internship program is to give minority undergraduate stu-dents an introduction to what graduate study in Computer Science is like,to encourage them to consider graduate education. A further goal is to buildstronger relationships with local four year HBCUs (Historically Black Col-leges and Universities)."To accomplish this we organized an eight week program, consisting of:
"* A research project.
" A series of seminars by different faculty on their research areas, partlymodeled on our course "Introduction to Graduate Studies in ComputerScience" that all incoming graduate students are required to take.
"* Short courses, run in conjunction with the College of Computing Con-tinuing Education staff, on topics such as UNIX a.nd C.
We recruited students through the active cooperation of faculty at localHBCUs (including Spellman College, Clark-Atlanta University, and MorrisBrown College). The active participation, suggestions, and guidance of thesefaculty was a key in planning the program, advertising, recruiting, and eval-uating applications from students.
The first week that students were in the program was used for orientation:familiaring them with the college and campus, showing them how to useUNIX tools such as mail, and, most importantly, matching each of themwith a research project and advisor.
The research projects were the major component of the program; theyare discussed below. The seminars were quite successful, as they exposedstudents to a broad range of research interests and challenges and were rela-tively easy to organize. We conducted the short courses by allowing studentsto enroll on a no-fee basis in continuing education courses that were appro-priate for them, given their preparation and needs. Most students enrolledin a couple of two or three day courses.
Another important aspect of the program was continuous mentoring. Forthe first two weeks, all students met on a daily basis to discuss any problemsthey were having, and so forth. Later we met two or three times a week to
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review progress, and students were asked to produce progress reports andpresent their research. Students met regularly with their project advisorsand other graduate students.
2 Research projects
We solicited research projects from all the faculty. The guidelines for suchprojects were:
"* Have a research component (not just "programming", for example).
"* Doable by an undergraduate without specialized skills that would re-quire a graduate course to master
"* Able to reach closure in about 8 weeks of full-time work
We had about 6 projects that met our guidelines. Students listened to pre-sentations of all the projects, then discussed the details of projects theywere interested in in more detail individually with the faculty sponsoring theproject. The following table lists the projects undertaken by each one of thestudents, the faculty sponsoring the project, and title:
Student Faculty Advisor ProjectJastasis Thomas Navathe (DataBases) Goose: A Graphical Interface for
an Object-Oriented DatabaseMaurice Dennard Arkin (Robotics) Multiagent Robot Navigation and
Transferring Data Across the NetworkDelano Glanville Stasko (Visualization) Visualization and Animation
of Parallel ProgramsDwight Huggett Shackelford (CAI) Optimus: A Teaching EnvironmentJelyne Martin and Ashwin Ram (AI) Tale-Spin: A Story GenerationNatalie Nelson Environment
3 Evaluation
The success of the program warrants making it an annual activity, with a little"fine-tuning" needed for '93 to improve and streamline the program. These
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changes are based partly upon the intern's own evaluations of the program(included in an Appendix). Following are a list of recommendations for nextyear:
"* Commence recruiting students in early Winter Quarter
" Have the orientation week separate from the 8 weeks of the regularinternship (effectively start the program a week early. The durationof the program, 8 weeks, and overlap with the end of Tech's springquarter, worked well (the HBCUs are on semesters). Students hadthe option of continuing work on their projects in August or taking avacation.
"* Increase enrollment to a maximum of 12 students.
Since we had only 6 students the program was very personalized andinformal. This undoubtably contributed to the success of the program.We could expand the program to about 12 students without losing thisatmosphere. Increasing enrollment would somewhat complicate coordi-nation of projects, and would probably require funding for continuingeducation courses specifically for the interns.
Total Direct $23,860.00 $0.00 $17,023.00 $6,837.00
Indirect Chgs $1,032.00 $0.00 $1,284.00 ($252.00)
ITotal $24,892.00 $0.00 $18,307.00 $4I546-00f
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Appendix B - Program Evaluations
The following evaluations are self-explanatory. After the program was overwe asked each intern to rate the program (to what extent were their ex-pectations fulfilled; their interactions with staff, students, and faculty; andsuggestions for improvements). Two of the answers are hard-copy, the restare electronic submissions (The interns soon discovered that E-mail was the"lingua franca" in the College).
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Name: .lMar,'c, L. DcnntrJWhat did you expect to get out of the summer internship(e.g.; new skills some idea of what grad school is like, money)?
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How would you rate your interactions with:
Staff (such as vicky) L02dOther graduate students you met P,.,ue,,Coordinators (Bill and Kevin) ,r..y..)hfYour faculty project advisior ja•-
Were they helpful, available, inspirational, etc.
,wcre q,;+4c h •fuI and oa•ve- ry load advi,,e- w, became /rtKsfAed jWhat suggestions do you have for improving theprogram (e.g., additional activities, when andfor ow long the internships should b sched/e . 7 r'lI'-kAifl hle, 1 )?
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CA%%~ere~f cs on OTTI'c 19/nisOt 4 tk # rn"5;,o 74aWould you recommend the program to other students atyour college? y/ J O ;f becau.e ' 3 o1'oo00 /ear/pi
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Can you all fill out the following brief quesionnaire, and send it eitherback to me or Peter Freeman, the Dean (freeman@cc) if you prefer. Basicallywe want your suggedstions to assist us improving such a program if we do itagain next year (we are almost certain to, and enlarge it some too).
Cheers -- BillP.S. See you on the l1th.
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What did you expect to get out of the summer internship(e.g., new skills, some idea of what grad school is like, money)?
To what extent were your expectationfulfiled '(completely, partially, not at all) and why?
Were there any unexpected benefits(that is, things that you got out of the internship, or happened, thatyou enjoyed, but did not anticipate)?
How would-Iou rate your interactions with:
Staff (such as vicky)Other graduate students you metCoordinators (Bill and Kevin) I'Your faculty project advisior
Were they helpful, available, inspirational, etc.
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Would you recommend the program to other students at
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