IGERT: Graduate Training in Optical Science and Engineering

这一综合性教育与研究培训(IGERT)奖将支持建立一个多学科的光学科学和工程研究生培训计划，为博士生在学术和工业环境中的各种职业做好准备。这项活动是由来自科罗拉多大学化学、物理、电气和计算机工程系以及两个附属研究所--国家标准与技术研究所(NIST)和联合实验室天体物理研究所(JILA)--的26名科学家和工程师共同努力的。这组科学家和工程师已经建立了研究合作关系，他们的集体专业知识将为在该奖项的五年任期内培训一支由大约90名研究生组成的多样化干部提供智力基础。光学科学与工程是特别适合综合研究的主题，因为它的各种组成部分在基础研究和工业应用中都是极其重要的。该计划的研究部分集中在三个领域：基本系统的光学控制和操纵、光学计量学和信息的光学处理。在这些集群中，博士培训将满足对高级学位毕业生的未得到满足的需求，这些毕业生拥有深入的技术知识、实验室环境中解决问题的能力、学习和工作的灵活性、团队合作能力以及清晰的口头和书面沟通能力。10%的IGERT实习生职位将支持学生参加一个实验性的专业硕士学位项目，该项目将包括博士项目的所有方面，但论文项目除外。IGERT是一个新的NSF范围内的项目，旨在促进创新的、以研究为基础的研究生项目的建立，这些项目将培训不同的科学家和工程师群体，为充分利用广泛的职业选择做好准备。IGERT为博士机构提供了一个机会，以开发新的、重点明确的、超越组织边界的多学科研究生课程，并团结来自几个系或机构的教师，为培训和研究建立一个高度互动、协作的环境。在该计划的第一年，将为17个机构提供支持，这些机构的新项目或新生项目共同涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award will support the establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program in optical sciences and engineering that will prepare PhD students for a variety of careers in academic and industrial environments. This activity is a joint effort of twenty-six scientists and engineers from the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado, and two affiliated institutes, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA). This group of scientists and engineers has established research collaborations and their collective expertise will provide the intellectual underpinning for the training of a diverse cadre of some ninety graduate students over the five-year tenure of the award. Optical science and engineering is particularly well-suited integrative research theme because its diverse components are extremely important in both basic research and industrial applications. The program's research components are clustered in three areas: optical control and manipulation of fundamental systems, optical metrology, and optical processing of information. Within these clusters, PhD training will address the unmet need for advanced degree graduates who possess the `Employable Quintet` of technical knowledge in depth, problem solving ability in a laboratory setting, flexibility in learning and working, the ability to work in teams, and clarity in oral and written communication. Ten percent of the IGERT traineeship positions will support students in an experimental Professional Masters Degree program that will include all aspects of the doctoral program except the dissertation project. IGERT is a new, NSF-wide program intended to facilitate the establishment of innovative, research-based graduate programs that will train a diverse group of scientists and engineers to be well-prepared to take advantage of a broad spectrum of career options. IGERT provides doctoral institutions with an opportunity to develop new, well-focussed multidisciplinary graduate programs that transcend organizational boundaries and unite faculty from several departments or institutions to establish a highly interactive, collaborative environment for both training and research. In this first year of the program, support will be provided to seventeen institutions for new or nascent programs that collectively span all areas of science and engineering supported by NSF.