Beaufait, M., & Chen, D., & Dietrich, C. B., & Dietrich, C., & Vanhoy, G. M. (2011, June), Transition from Undergraduate Research Program Participants  to Researchers and Open Source Community Contributors  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC. 10.18260/1-2--18556

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  Beaufait, M., \& Chen, D., \& Dietrich, C. B., \& Dietrich, C., \& Vanhoy, G. M. (2011, June), \emph{Transition from Undergraduate Research Program Participants  to Researchers and Open Source Community Contributors}
  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC.
  10.18260/1-2--18556

MaryPat Beaufait, Duyun Chen, Carl B Dietrich P.E., Cecile Dietrich, and Garrett Michael Vanhoy.  "Transition from Undergraduate Research Program Participants  to Researchers and Open Source Community Contributors".  2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2011.  https://peer.asee.org/18556 Internet.  09 Mar, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_18556}
  MaryPat Beaufait, Duyun Chen, Carl B Dietrich P.E., Cecile Dietrich, and Garrett Michael Vanhoy.
  "Transition from Undergraduate Research Program Participants  to Researchers and Open Source Community Contributors".
  \emph{2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2011.
  https://peer.asee.org/18556 Internet.  09 Mar, 2025

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AB  -         Transition from Undergraduate Research Program Participants          to Researchers and Open Source Community ContributorsThis paper provides a collaborative narrative of the experience of undergraduate studentparticipants and a faculty mentor in an intensive summer research program and the students’transition to a new role as researchers and developers of open source software infrastructure forfurther education, research, and experimentation.Student experiences include orientation to wireless communications in general and cognitive andsoftware defined radio communications in particular as well as an intensive orientation touniversity research, professional practices, and graduate education, and work in close knitengineering teams with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and engineering disciplines.The participants describe their collaborative process and experience in developing software thatsupports cognitive radio reconfiguration, including application of software engineering practicesand tools, as well as experience in presenting research results to peers, university researchers,and other wireless communications professionals and end users as part of the program.Following the program, the students transitioned to a role as research collaborators anddevelopers and maintainers of open source research infrastructure. Their experience incontinued collaboration with each other and their mentor, resulting in availability of the students’software and documentation as an open source resource for further research and education at thehost institution and worldwide, is described. The manuscript will include students’ experiencesin preparing the software for open source release and in presenting their work at an internationaltechnical conference, as well as an introduction to professional networking in the technicalspecialty that this experience provided. Other collaborative efforts with the mentor and graduateresearchers resulting in additional conference papers and possible publications are described aswell. Impact of the experience on the students’ current education and career plans is alsodescribed.These experiences are discussed in the context of relevant theoretical perspectives.References   1. J. Mitola and G. Maguire, “Cognitive radio: Making software radios more personal,”      IEEE Personal Communications, Aug. 1999.   2. S. Haykin, “Cognitive radio: Brain-empowered wireless communications,” IEEE      Journal in Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 23, pp. 1–20, 2005.   3. L.S. Vygotsky, Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes,      Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1978.   4. J. Tudge, Vygotsky, the zone of proximal development, and peer collaboration:      Implications for classroom practice. In L. Moll (Ed.) Vygotsky and education:      Instructional implications and applications of sociohistorical psychology, pp. 155-172,      Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990.   5. M. Hedegaard, Zone of proximal development as basis for instruction. In L. Moll (Ed.)   6. Vygotsky and education: Instructional implications and applications of sociohistorical      psychology, pp. 349-371, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990.   7. A.Y. Kolb, D. A. Kolb, “Learning styles and learning spaces: Enhancing experiential      learning in higher education,” Academy of Management Learning and Education, 4(2),      pp. 193-212, 2005.
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