IGERT: Urban Environmental Sustainabilty -- A Multidisciplinary Doctoral Education Program

IGERT：城市环境可持续性——多学科博士教育项目

• 批准号: 9870711
• 负责人: Joseph Devinny
• 金额: $ 274.2万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-15 至 2005-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9870711&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Urban; Environmental; Sustainabilty; Multidisciplinary

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award will support the establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program in Urban Environmental Sustainability within the existing Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Engineering (ESPE) Program at the University of Southern California. This activity is a joint effort of eleven scientists and engineers from the Departments of Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences, Geography, Political Science, Economics, and Medicine in the School of Engineering, the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and the College of Medicine. 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 seventy graduate students and thirty undergraduates over the five-year tenure of the award. This IGERT activity provides an integrated four-part program consisting of a seminar on cities and urban systems; three team-taught courses (The Urban Environment: Research and Policy Issues; Environmental Technologies; and Negotiating Boundaries in Environmental Research); individual doctoral-level directed research supervised by a multidisciplinary faculty team; and a faculty-supervised, multidisciplinary collaborative project conducted for a client. Program diversity will be maximized through strategic recruiting of graduate and undergraduate trainees, and by diversification of the ESPE faculty. 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.

这项综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖将支持在南加州大学现有的环境科学、政策和工程（ESPE）项目中建立城市环境可持续性的多学科研究生培训项目。这项活动是由来自环境工程系、土木工程系、化学工程系、地球科学系、生物科学系、地理学系、政治学系、经济学系、医学系、文理学院和医学院的11位科学家和工程师共同努力的结果。这群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70名研究生和30名本科生的多元化骨干提供知识基础。这项IGERT活动提供了一个综合的四部分方案，包括一个关于城市和城市系统的讨论会；三门小组授课课程（城市环境：研究与政策问题；环境技术；谈判环境研究的边界）；个人博士水平的指导研究，由多学科教师团队监督；以及为客户进行的由教师监督的多学科合作项目。项目的多样性将通过战略性招聘研究生和本科生学员以及ESPE教员的多样化来最大化。IGERT是一个新的，nsf范围内的项目，旨在促进建立创新的，以研究为基础的研究生项目，培养多样化的科学家和工程师群体，为利用广泛的职业选择做好充分的准备。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，并将来自几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。