IGERT Full Proposal: Materials Lifetime Science and Engineering

9987548Peter Liaw -田纳西大学诺克斯维尔分校（University of Tennessee at knoxville）：材料寿命科学与工程综合研究生教育与研究培训（IGERT）奖支持在材料寿命科学与工程领域建立多学科、多机构的教育与研究研究生培训项目。参与机构为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。该项目是30名科学家和工程师的共同努力，教师参与者来自9个系：材料科学与工程；机械与航空航天工程、工程科学；机械工程与力学；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；统计数据;和教育。该计划由四个组成部分组成：b[1]主要研究工作，重点是环境/机械协同作用；[2]新的博士课程；100个工业和国家实验室实习机会，以及一个大学学生交换项目；以及先进的、以计算机为基础的教育/研究技术。其目标是提供能够在涉及材料寿命科学和工程的复杂技术问题的解决方案中担任领导角色的博士毕业生。这些问题的解决将导致准确的寿命预测和老化结构材料的显著寿命延长，并开发具有改进寿命的新材料。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足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，促进研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第三年，奖项将颁发给19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。这一特殊奖项的智力焦点在于工程、数学和物理科学以及教育和人力资源部门。

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.