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Research in Engineering and Sciences Apprenticeship Program |
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Description by Professor Jayaram Sethuraman
 The
Research in the Engineering and Sciences Apprenticeship program (REAP
program)
is a program to encourage high school seniors to pursue study in the
areas
of Science and/or Engineering. It is funded by the National Academy of
Applied Sciences. The first year under my mentorship began in the
summer
of 1981, when only one apprentice was selected. Since then the program
has run continuously each summer and at least three apprentices have
been
selected each year.
The apprentices in this program have gone on to
pursue
careers in science and engineering, thus fulfilling one of the main
aims
of the program, in an effortless fashion. It has become popular and
well
known in the local high schools. I get inquiries about the program
throughout
the year from interested students and from some eager parents.
Here is a quick description of the program with a
list
of names of the apprentices.
NAME OF PROGRAM AND AGENCY
Research and Engineering Apprenticeship Program (REAP)
Supported by the Academy of Applied Science,
1 Maple Street, Concord, NH 03301
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
The objective of the REAP program is to provide a
cooperative
education (work/research/study) opportunity to graduating seniors and
rising
juniors which affords them a hands-on experience in learning new
knowledge
and participating in new discoveries. As a mentor in the REAP program,
I structure a program that provides such activities in the area of
statistics
and probability.
The ultimate objective of the REAP program is to let
the
the beauty of science, by such a learning experience, captivate the
apprentices,
so that the apprentices go on to obtain higher degrees and seek
careers,
in science and engineering, and ultimately thereby, strengthen the
total
pool of scientists and engineers in this country.
I generally choose three graduating seniors from the
local
high schools for the program. Sometimes, I have also chosen juniors for
this program. Since my field is probability and statistics, I look for
students showing talent and aptitude in mathematics. The REAP program
generally
runs for six to eight weeks in the summer. The apprentices study the
elements
of probability and statistics and participate with me on a project. In
recent years we have made extensive use of the superb computing
facilities
in our department.
An overwhelming majority of apprentices from this
program
have gone on to study science or engineering; with a sizable number of
them actually going into statistics or a related area. There have been
a total of 80 apprentices who have participated in the REAP program to
date.
AGES OF STUDENTS ETC.
The students are aged 18 years or younger. They are
graduating
seniors or rising juniors from high schools.
PERSONS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROGRAM
I am the person responsible for this program and am
called
the Mentor of the REAP.
LIST OF REAP APPRENTICES
1. 1981 Ernest Pollitz DRS Georgia Inst. of Technology
2. 1982 Herek Clack DRS Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.
3. 1982 Cynthia Pope Godby Tallahassee Comm. College
4. 1982 Shantanu Basu Godby Florida State University
5. 1983 Kim Garland DRS Florida State University
6. 1983 Carol Meeter Leon Carleton University
7. 1983 Mary Patterson DRS Georgia Inst. of Technology
8. 1984 Philip Chang DRS Boston University
9. 1984 Levin Lahey Leon University of Florida
10. 1984 Joel Paramore Shanks Florida State University
11. 1985 Jeffrey Crum DRS Mass. Inst. of Technology
12. 1985 Sanjay Hegde Maclay Duke University
13. 1985 Elaine Marzluff DRS Harvard University
14. 1985 Christopher Parke Lincoln University of Michigan
15. 1986 Jessica Smith DRS Duke University
16. 1986 Sunder Sethuraman DRS Stanford University
17. 1986 Alice Wang Lincoln Harvard University
18. 1987 Saraju Dalsania Godby Florida State University
19. 1987 Mathew Kohler Leon Florida State University
20. 1987 Johnny Nash Godby Warren Wilson College
21. 1988 Michelle Lin DRS Stanford University
22. 1988 M. Lynn Owens Leon Florida State University
23. 1988 Gary Hseuh Maclay University of Calif.,Berkeley
24. 1989 Nathan Bachman Leon Valpariso University
25. 1989 Nitya Sethuraman DRS Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
26. 1989 Brian Tan DRS Brown University
27. 1990 Krishna Nayak Lincoln Florida State University
28. 1990 Tiffany Tamaddoni Lincoln University of Florida
29. 1990 Derek Zahn Leon Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
30. 1991 Mehul Patel Lincoln Florida State University
31. 1991 Tobey Tam Lincoln Brown University
32. 1991 Wei Du Leon Georgia Inst. of Technology
33. 1992 Michael Hsueh Maclay Stanford University
34. 1992 Matthew Lee Lincoln Georgia Inst. of Technology
35. 1992 Sandra Starnes Rickards Florida State University
36. 1993 Jean Baker Leon University of Chicago
37. 1993 Michael Thurmond Maclay Georgia Tech.
38. 1993 Connie Weng Godby Florida State University
39. 1994 Vy Lam Godby Northwestern University
40. 1994 Jason Lawrence Lincoln Case Western University
41. 1994 Molly Pescador Maclay Duke University
42. 1995 Alan Charness Leon Carnegie Mellon University
43. 1995 Michael Gunter Leon Florida State University
44. 1995 Jason Patterson Lincoln Florida State University
45. 1996 Breeze Pecorino Lincoln Florida State University
46. 1996 Keshini Parbhu Maclay Duke University
47. 1996 Robert Outlaw Lincoln Florida State University
48. 1997 Camille Fournier Leon Carnegie Melon University
49. 1997 Catherine Ho Maclay Emory Univeristy
50. 1997 William Thorp Lincoln University of South Florida
51. 1998 Winston Cheng Leon Harvard University
52. 1998 John Ehrhardt Maclay University of North Carolina
53. 1998 Cyrus Monroe Lincoln Florida State University
54. 1999 Robert Eaton Lincoln University of Florida
55. 1999 Regina Thai Lincoln University of Florida
56. 1999 Keola Wierschem Leon Florida State University
57. 2000 Sherine Goor Lincoln University of Florida
58. 2000 Cherie Knotts Leon University of Chicago
59. 2000 Gary Printy Lincoln Rice University
60. 2001 Jeff Doker Lincoln University of Florida
61. 2001 Shuguang Feng Leon University of Florida
62. 2001 Anthony Thai Ricards IB University of Chicago
63. 2002 David McCaleb Lincoln University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
64. 2002 Oufemi Oti Rickards University of Florida
65. 2002 James Wilson Lincoln University of Florida
66. 2003 David Douglas Haldane MaClay Johns Hopkins
67. 2003 Ali Hemati Leon Tallahasse Community College
68. 2003 Justin Carl Sorrell Leon University of Florida
69. 2004 Matthew
Aune
Rickards Georgia Tech.
70. 2004 Sanjiv
Goli
Lincoln Princeton University
71. 2004 Anthony
Kuhns Chiles
McGill University
72. 2006 Andrew
Ellinor Lincoln
University of Florida
73. 2006
Nicholas
James Lincoln
University of Florida
74. 2006
Benjamin I.
Gillie Lincoln University of
South Florida
75. 2007 Pratik
Shah
76. 2007 Roshan Goli
77. 2007 Shihuan Wang
78. 2008 Spencer Ellinor
79. 2008 Jeremy
Jarrett
Leon
80. 2008 Kaitlin Cunningham
81. 2009 Robert Palmer
82. 2009 Jarrod Langston
For more information contact me at sethu@stat.fsu.edu
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