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RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING APPRENTICESHIP (REAP) PROGRAM

Description by Professor Jayaram Sethuraman

reap picThe 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