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Program Schedule

Week

Date

Time

Activities

1

June 8 (Monday)

9:00 – 16:00

Orientation

June 11 (Thursday)

9:00 – 12:00

Workshop: Selection of Research Topics (Dr. Shengli Yuan)

2

 

June 15 – 19

9:00 – 18:00

Students and faculty mentors have daily meetings to discuss the project in much more details. Towards to end of the week, a detailed project plan will be developed, in which the role of each student will be clearly identified based on each student's strengths and interests, together with each student’s assigned tasks, the milestones of the project, and the expected project deliverables.

June 18

13:00 - 14:00

Workshop: Research Literature Review (Dr. Shengli Yuan)

3

June 22 - 26

9:00 – 18:00

Main research phase under close supervision and direction of mentors with daily briefings.

June 25

13:00-14:00

Workshop: Technical Writing I (Dr. Shengli Yuan)

4

June 29 – July 3

9:00 – 18:00

Main research phase under close supervision and direction of mentors with daily briefings.

July 2

13:00-14:00 Workshop: Technical Writing II  (Dr. Shengli Yuan)

5

July 6-9

9:00-18:00

Main research phase under close supervision and direction of mentors with daily briefings.

July 10

10:30-12:00

Field trip to the Department of Computer Science, University of Houston.

6

July 13-16

9:00 – 18:00

Main research phase under close supervision and direction of mentors with daily briefings.

July 17

13:00-13:30

Seminar: Education, Research, Language (Dr. Ping Chen)

13:30-15:30 Mid-project review: presentations

7

July 22 11:00 – 12:00

Field trip to Lunar Planet Institute

July 20 - 24

9:00 – 18:00

Main research phase continues. The students will conduct semi-independent research activities and play more independent roles.

8

July 27 - 31

9:00 – 18:00

9

August 3 - 6

9:00 – 18:00

August 7 10:30-12:00 Mini-symposium (final presentations)

10

August 10 - 14

9:00-18:00

Review and evaluation phase

August 13

9:00-12:00

Project submission

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