Replacement of Multidisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratories with a Center for Interdisciplinary Research

姆廷瓦 北卡罗来纳州AT州立大学在培养有才华的少数民族学生方面有着悠久而杰出的记录，无论是在学士学位还是硕士学位方面。 为了在科学和工程领域取得卓越的学术成就，该机构最近在电气和机械工程领域设立了博士课程。 该计划将显着提高大学的进步，在其关系到科学研究卓越和生产力的学者在科学和工程培训。 为了帮助支持博士课程和扩大其研究计划，该大学将创建跨学科研究中心（IRC），这是一个单一的设施，将允许在六个主要推力领域合并多个多学科实验室：材料，制造，系统工程，计算系统，农业科学和社会科学。 该中心将支持来自工程技术学院和艺术与科学学院的教师和学生的跨学科研究活动。 该奖项将为IRC的研究和研究培训空间的翻新提供资金。 空间将被重新配置，以容纳目前在狭窄条件下进行的明确的跨学科研究。 辅助公用设施将通过公共管廊垂直布置，并水平分布到各个实验室，并将安装新的固定设备。 改进后的设施将扩大从事研究活动的研究人员和学生的能力，促进技术创新和21世纪国家战略学科的培训。 由于北卡罗来纳州AT州立大学是一所历史悠久的黑人学院和大学，翻新后的设施将对增加代表性不足的少数民族和妇女进入管道导致工程和科学高级学位的数量产生重大影响。

Mtingwa North Carolina A&T State University has a long and distinguished record in graduating talented minority students in science and engineering, both at the baccalaureate and masters levels. In its quest to achieve academic excellence in science and engineering, the institution recently established a doctoral program in the fields of electrical and mechanical engineering. This program will significantly enhance the university's progress in its relation to scientific research excellence and the productivity of scholars trained in science and engineering. To help support the doctoral programs and expand its research programs, the university will create the Interdisciplinary Research Center (IRC), a single facility that will allow for the merger of several multidisciplinary laboratories in six major thrust areas: Materials, Manufacturing, Systems Engineering, Computing Systems, Agriculture Sciences and Social Sciences. The Center will support interdisciplinary research activities by faculty and students from the Schools of Engineering and Technology and the College of Arts and Science. This award will provide funding for the renovation of research and research training space for the IRC. Space will be reconfigured to house well-defined interdisciplinary research that is currently ongoing in cramped conditions. Supporting utilities will be routed vertically through common chases and distributed horizontally to the various laboratories, and new fixed equipment will be installed. The improved facility will expand the capabilities of researchers and students engaged in research activities, stimulating technological innovations and training in nationally strategic academic disciplines for the 21st century. Since North Carolina A&T State University is an Historically Black College and University, the renovated facility will have a substantial impact on increasing the number of underrepresented minorities and women entering the pipeline leading to advanced degrees in engineering and science.