IGERT: NeuroEngineering Training Program

这项综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持建立一个涉及加州大学洛杉矶分校脑研究所（BRI）和加州大学洛杉矶分校工程与应用科学学院（SEAS）的多学科研究生教育和研究培训计划。这些团体在一个重要的新事业中联合起来——发展一个多学科神经科学卓越教育中心，并将其转化为工程和技术应用。为了实现这一愿景，他们正在启动神经工程培训（NET）计划，这是海洋科学学院跨系神经科学博士项目和生物医学工程博士项目的共同努力。工业界和政府实验室的积极参与将补充该计划。NET将使学生能够：(1)具有生物科学背景的学生开发和执行利用最先进技术的项目，包括微机电系统（MEMS）；(2)具有工程背景，开发和执行解决具有神经科学基础的问题的项目，包括运动和模式生成，运动的中央控制和感觉信息的处理；(3)培养多学科团队合作的能力，这将是21世纪新的科学见解和巨大的技术进步所必需的。最重要的是，NET将把对这类合作的巨大热情转化为持久的知识学科和维持创新的制度框架。IGERT是一项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，培养多样化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。在该计划的第二年，奖项将颁发给21个机构，这些机构的项目涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。这一特殊奖项由生物科学、工程、教育和人力资源理事会提供资金支持。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research involving the UCLA Brain Research Institute (BRI), and the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS). These groups have joined forces in a major new enterprise -- the development of a center of educational excellence for multidisciplinary neuroscience and its translation into engineering and technological applications. To accomplish this vision, they are initiating the NeuroEngineering Training (NET) Program, a joint endeavor between the Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program for Neuroscience and the Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Program in SEAS. The program will be supplemented with the active involvement of industry and government laboratories. NET will enable students: (1) with a background in biological science to develop and execute projects that make use of state-of-the-art technology, including microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); (2) with a background in engineering to develop and execute projects that address problems that have a neuroscientific base -- including locomotion and pattern generation, central control of movement, and the processing of sensory information; and (3) to develop the capacity for the multidisciplinary teamwork that will be necessary for new scientific insights and dramatic technological progress in the 21st century. Most importantly NET will convert the enormous enthusiasm for this type of collaboration into a lasting intellectual discipline and an institutional framework to sustain innovation.IGERT is an 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 second year of the program, awards are being made to twenty-one institutions for programs that collectively span all areas of science and engineering supported by NSF. This specific award is supported by funds from the Directorates for Biological Sciences, for Engineering, and for Education and Human Resources.