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Summer Graduate Research Experience
SGREP is ISI's Summer Graduate Research Experience Program,
a summer program that combines academic directed research
and project class education with real project participation
and exposure to project planning, management, and adminstration.
It is offered to motivated graduate CS, CE, and EE students,
primarily through USC.
Summer students collaborate with small groups of researchers
at USC's Information Sciences Institute, and focus on portions
of existing ISI projects sponsored by DARPA, the NSF, and
other funding agencies.
SGREP is held during the summer because this is the
most productive time for many ISI researchers, who, unlike
their purely academic counterparts, do not break for the summer.
Summer is also the time when students are free from competing
academic pursuits and obligations, and can take advantage
of intensive full-time experience.
The SGREP program began in the summer of 1999, as an
experiment in combining academic project experience for students
with real project experience. The goal is to serve the mutual
goals of academic graduate students and ISI's project leaders.
Conventional research assistantships are difficult for early
graduate students to acquire, while traditional core curriculum
classes divert project leaders from their research projects.
In SGREP, students benefit from participation in small groups
with full-time researchers, working on a real project, and
helping to plan and coordinate their contributions. ISI's
projects benefit by having tangential issues or components
implemented, while (we believe) maintaining the focus of the
project leaders on their projects.
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