Bootstrapping a New Graduate Curriculum through an Engineering Research Center
Bootstrapping a New Graduate Curriculum through an Engineering Research Center
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通过工程研究中心启动新的研究生课程
DOI：
10.18260/1-2--17574
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
J. Sankar
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作者：
D. Pai;R. Liles;C. Lambeth;P. Kumta;H. Borovetz;S. Pixley;Partha Roy;J. Sankar
NSF第三代工程研究中心(ERCs)负责推进工程和科学研究方面的尖端技术，并在专业领域培训合格的劳动力。2008年，北卡罗来纳A&T州立大学(NCAT)获得了这样的ERC奖，匹兹堡大学(PITT)和辛辛那提大学(UC)作为美国核心研究伙伴机构。这次ERC的重点是针对生物医学植入物和设备行业的先进材料和工艺的开发。NCAT在其机械、工业、化学和电气工程系拥有强大的研究和教育项目，但正是另外两所核心研究合作伙伴学校带来了生物医学工程和生物材料方面的优势。因此，NCAT面临的挑战是，通过提供关键课程来引导研究生教学，这些课程可以迅速让学生熟悉从工程材料研究过渡到生物材料研究所需的概念。本文讨论了作者在前两个课程中的经验。
NSF Generation-3 Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) are charged both with advancing the state-of-the-art in terms of engineering and scientific research as well as training a well-qualified workforce in the domain of expertise. Such an ERC was awarded in 2008 to North Carolina A&T State University (NCAT), with the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and the University of Cincinnati (UC) as the core US research partner institutions. The focus of this ERC, the ERC for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials (RMB) is the development of advanced materials and processes targeted at the biomedical implant and device industry. NCAT has strong research and education programs in its mechanical, industrial, chemical and electrical engineering department, but it is the two other core research partner schools that brought in strengths in biomedical engineering and biomaterials. The challenge, then, was to bootstrap graduate instruction at NCAT by offering key courses that could quickly bring students up to speed in the concepts required to transition from engineered materials research to biomaterials research. This paper discusses the authors’ experience with the first two of those courses that resulted.