NSF Traineeships in Civil Infrastructure for the Colonias

德克萨斯农工大学基础设施工程中心与德克萨斯农工大学金斯维尔分校(TAMU-K)合作，提出了一个研究生研究培训(GRT)项目，该项目将重点研究与德克萨斯州、新墨西哥州、亚利桑那州和加利福尼亚州边境地区的殖民地相关的基础设施问题。殖民地代表着整个美国与墨西哥边境沿线人口稠密和分散的发展。它们缺乏发达国家的基本基础设施，也缺乏与教育、医疗保健和环境保护相关的基础设施。在德克萨斯州，估计有1193个殖民地遗址，有超过50万西班牙裔居民。拟议的GRT项目将包括一个面向拉美裔美国人的博士学位流水线。其中两名GRT将在TAMU-K项目资助下完成硕士学位，然后在德克萨斯A&A；M获得博士学位。TAMU-K是德克萨斯州南部为拉美裔美国人提供准入的工程机构，在450万拉美裔德克萨斯人中有超过三分之一的人居住在那里。对于土木工程基础设施领域的GRT来说，这一重点领域提供了进行研究、开发和实施应用技术的机会，并更好地定义了基础设施工程与重要社会背景的关系。

The Center for Infrastructure Engineering at Texas A&M University, in a collaborative effort with Texas A&M University -- Kingsville (TAMU-K), proposes a Graduate Research Traineeship (GRT) project that will focus a program of doctoral study on the infrastructure issues associated with the colonias in the border region of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Colonias represent both densely populated and scattered developments along the entire U.S. border with Mexico. They lack the fundamental infrastructures of a developed nation, as well as those infrastructures associated with education, health care, and environmental protections. In Texas, there are an estimated 1,193 colonias sites with over 500,000 residents of Hispanic origin. The proposed GRT project will incorporate a Ph.D. Pipeline for Hispanics. Two of the GRTs will complete the M.S. degree under program funding at TAMU-K, and then earn the Ph.D. at Texas A&M. TAMU-K is the engineering institution of access for Hispanics in South Texas, home to over one-third of the 4.5 million Texans of Hispanic origin. For GRTs in civil engineering infrastructures this area of focus provides an opportunity to conduct research, develop and implement applications technologies, and better define the relationship of infrastructure engineering to an important societal context.