IGERT Full Proposal: Materials Lifetime Science and Engineering

9987548 Peter Liaw -田纳西大学诺克斯维尔IGERT：材料寿命科学与工程这个综合研究生教育和研究培训[IGERT]奖支持建立一个多学科，多机构，研究生培训计划的教育和研究材料寿命科学与工程。参与机构有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;分析技术公司工程技术中心;波音公司、通用电气公司、海恩斯国际公司;以及台湾核能研究所。 该计划是30名科学家和工程师的共同努力，教师参与者来自九个部门：材料科学与工程;机械和航空航天工程，工程科学;机械工程和力学;化学;土木与环境工程;工业工程;生物化学，细胞和分子生物学;统计学;和教育。 该计划包括四个综合部分：[1]主要研究工作，重点是环境/机械协同作用; [2]一个新的博士学位。课程;[3]工业和国家实验室实习，以及大学生交换计划;[4]先进的基于计算机的教育/研究技术。 目标是提供博士学位。毕业生谁可以承担领导作用，在涉及材料寿命科学和工程的复杂技术问题的解决方案。这些问题的解决方案将导致准确的寿命预测和老化结构材料的显著寿命延长，以及具有改进寿命的新材料的开发。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足博士教育的挑战。科学家和工程师与多学科背景和技术，专业和个人技能所需的未来的职业需求。 该计划旨在通过建立新的，创新的研究生教育和培训模式，促进研究生教育的文化变革，为超越传统学科界限的合作研究创造肥沃的环境。在该计划的第三年，该奖项将颁发给19个机构，这些机构的计划涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。这个特殊奖项的知识焦点在于工程，数学和物理科学，教育和人力资源局。

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.