IGERT Formal Proposal: Education of the Next Generation of Environmental Scientists and Engineers

该综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持建立环境科学与工程教育和研究的多学科研究生培训计划。来自各个领域的研究生将在动态的多学科背景下接受培训，这将培养出能够领导全球环境问题解决方案开发的环境科学家和工程师。这些专业人士将有强烈的愿望与其他学科的专家合作，为工业和学术生涯做好准备，并能够跨越文化和国家障碍。学员将与来自WSU三所学院八个部门的研究人员在同一地点的实验室工作，进行尖端，基础和应用研究，重点是了解物质相之间界面处发生的物理，化学和生物现象。学生将参加一个综合培训计划，其中包括一个正式的指导辅导计划和专门的课程和教育活动。该计划通过在国家实验室，政府机构，工业设施，印度国家环境部门或合作国际机构实习来加强。优秀的研究生将通过本科生的研究参与和与目标区域学院和大学，包括两个部落学院的互动招募。将积极招募妇女、西班牙裔和美洲土著参与者。IGERT是一个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，将培养一批多样化的科学家和工程师，为利用广泛的职业选择做好充分准备。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。在该计划的第二年，该奖项将颁发给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。该奖项由生物科学、地球科学、工程、教育和人力资源以及极地项目办公室的资金支持。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research in environmental science and engineering. Graduate students from a variety of fields will be trained in a dynamic multidisciplinary context that will produce environmental scientists and engineers who will be able to lead the development of solutions to global environmental problems. These professionals will have a strong desire to work with experts in other disciplines, be ready for both industrial and academic careers, and be able to cross cultural and national barriers. Trainees will work in co-located laboratories with researchers from eight departments in three colleges at WSU, performing cutting-edge, fundamental, and applied research focused on understanding the physical, chemical, and biological phenomena that occur at the interfaces between material phases. Students will participate in an integrated training program that includes a formalized instructional mentoring program and specialized coursework and educational activities. The program is enhanced by internships at national laboratories, government agencies, industrial facilities, Indian nation environmental departments, or at cooperating international institutions. Outstanding graduate students will be recruited via undergraduate research participation and interactions with targeted regional colleges and universities, including two Tribal colleges. Women, Hispanic and Native American participants will be actively recruited. During the five-year training program, participation by at least 66 students is anticipated.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 Geosciences, for Engineering, for Education and Human Resources, and from the Office of Polar Programs.