IGERT Full Proposal: Materials Lifetime Science and Engineering

9987548Peter Liw-田纳西大学诺克斯维尔分校IGERT：材料终身科学与工程这一综合性研究生教育与研究培训[IGERT]奖项支持建立一个多学科、多机构的材料终身科学与工程教育与研究研究生培训计划。参与的机构包括田纳西大学及其团队成员：利哈伊大学、罗格斯大学、橡树岭国家实验室、工程技术分析与技术中心公司、波音公司、通用电气公司、海恩斯国际公司和台湾核能研究所。该计划由30名科学家和工程师共同努力，教员来自9个系：材料科学和工程；机械和航空航天工程；工程科学；机械工程和机械；化学；土木和环境工程；工业工程；生物化学、细胞和分子生物学；统计学和教育系。该计划由四个组成部分组成：[1]重点是环境/机械协同作用的主要研究工作；[2]新的博士课程；[3)工业和国家实验室实习，以及大学学生交流计划；以及[4]先进的基于计算机的教育/研究技术。其目标是提供能够在解决涉及材料、生命科学和工程的复杂技术问题方面发挥领导作用的博士毕业生。这些问题的解决将导致老化结构材料的准确寿命预测和显著延长寿命，以及寿命延长的新材料的开发。IGERT是一项NSF范围的计划，旨在应对培养具有多学科背景和未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立新的、创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，催化研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第三年，19个机构被授予奖项，这些项目共同涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。这一具体奖项的智力焦点位于工程学、数学和物理科学以及教育和人力资源理事会。

9987548Peter Liaw - University of Tennessee at KnoxvilleIGERT: Materials Lifetime Science and EngineeringThis Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training [IGERT] award supports the establishment of a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, graduate training program of education and research in materials lifetime science and engineering. The participating institutions are the University of Tennessee and its team members: Lehigh University; Rutgers University; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Engineering Technology Center of Analysis & Technology, Inc.; Boeing Company; General Electric Company; Haynes International, Inc.; and the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Taiwan. The program is a joint effort of 30 scientists and engineers, with faculty participants drawn from nine Departments: Materials Science and Engineering; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Engineering Science; Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics; Chemistry; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Industrial Engineering; Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology; Statistics; and Education. The program consists of four integrated components: [1] major research efforts with emphases on environmental/mechanical synergistic interactions; [2] a new Ph.D. curriculum; [3] industrial and national-laboratory internships, and a university student-exchange program; and [4] advanced, computer-based education/research technologies. The goal is to provide Ph.D. graduates who can assume leadership roles in the solutions of complex technological problems involving materials lifetime science and engineering. Solutions of these problems will result in accurate lifetime predictions and significant lifetime extensions of aging structural materials, and the development of new materials with improved lifetimes.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing new, innovative models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the third year of the program, awards are being made to nineteen institutions for programs that collectively span all areas of science and engineering supported by NSF. The intellectual foci of this specific award reside in the Directorates for Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Education and Human Resources.