IGERT: Graduate Training in Optical Science and Engineering

该综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖将支持建立光学科学和工程领域的多学科研究生培训计划，为博士生在学术和工业环境中的各种职业做好准备。 这项活动是来自科罗拉多大学化学系、物理系、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）和实验室天体物理联合研究所（JILA））的26名科学家和工程师的共同努力。 这组科学家和工程师已经建立了研究合作，他们的集体专业知识将为在该奖项的五年任期内培训约90名研究生的多样化干部提供知识基础。 光学科学与工程是特别适合的综合研究主题，因为它的不同组成部分在基础研究和工业应用中都非常重要。 该计划的研究内容集中在三个领域：光学控制和基本系统的操作，光学计量学和光学信息处理。 在这些集群中，博士培训将解决对高级学位毕业生的未满足需求，这些毕业生拥有深入的技术知识，在实验室环境中解决问题的能力，学习和工作的灵活性，团队工作的能力，以及口头和书面沟通的清晰度。 IGERT实习职位的百分之十将支持学生在实验专业硕士学位课程，将包括博士课程的所有方面，除了论文项目。 IGERT是一个新的，NSF范围内的计划，旨在促进建立创新的，以研究为基础的研究生课程，这将培养一个多元化的科学家和工程师群体做好充分准备，以利用广泛的职业选择。 IGERT为博士机构提供了一个开发新的，重点突出的多学科研究生课程的机会，这些课程超越了组织界限，并将来自多个部门或机构的教师联合起来，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，用于新的或新生的项目，这些项目共同涵盖了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.