IGERT: Teaching Craft for Macromolecular Creativity

9987603Paul Russo - Louisiana State UniversityIGERT：Teaching Craft for Macromolecular CreativityThis Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training（IGERT）award supports the establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research on the synthesis，characterization，processing and theory of macromolecules.八个系的学生将参加IGERT实验。 在上述主题领域进行研究驱动的正式培训后，学生将加入一个跨学科团队，包括其他学生，教师和校外参与者。 研究组合包括工程加上好奇心驱动和应用科学。 学徒-工匠-工匠阶梯是从贸易艺术中改编而来的，旨在培养技能、创造力、道德、责任感和哲学。 学生将提前到达一个夏天的研究发现和道德培训。 根据表现出的优点，他们将被选为学徒。 学徒将与教授和校外的“研究大师”并肩工作2到6周，足够长的时间来展示第一手的负责任和道德的研究行为，但足够短的时间，学生仍然可以独立发展。 完成书面报告并晋升为博士后，学徒成为工匠。 在其他特权和责任中，艺人可以编写小人物来支持原创想法。 在成功的数据防御之后，工匠将被宣布为工匠，并有资格在另一所大学、政府或工业场所接受长达六个月的“精修学校”。 极好的机会已经预先安排好了，但工匠们可能会根据他们独立的小移民的初步数据设计自己的机会。 将修订核心课程，以便为更多的跨学科客户服务。 团队授课的综合实验室/讲座将特别关注实践技能，包括设备建造，编程和故障排除所需的技能。 在科学和技术的道德行为，再加上商业问题的培训，将提供两个课程提供给整个校园的研究生和本科生。 学生必须执行一个社区服务项目，并参加一个新的，跨部门的研讨会。 一个强有力的奖励结构将保持学生和教师在这个要求很高的实验的兴趣。 成员部门和校外参与者将分享他们在性别，文化和种族多样性方面的不同优势。 共有30多名学生参加。 实验的成功方面将在整个校园传播，由一个新的社会计量学项目指导，以评估其有效性。 IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育博士的挑战。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数学和物理科学，工程，教育和人力资源的董事会。

9987603Paul Russo - Louisiana State UniversityIGERT: Teaching Craft for Macromolecular CreativityThis Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research on the synthesis, characterization, processing and theory of macromolecules. Students in eight departments will participate in this IGERT experiment. After research-driven formal training in the above topical areas, the students will join an interdisciplinary team including other students, faculty and off-campus participants. The research mix includes engineering plus curiosity-driven and applied science. An Apprentice-Artisan-Craftsperson ladder is adapted from the trade arts to develop skills, creativity, ethics, responsibility and philosophy. Students will arrive early for a summer of research discovery and ethics training. Based on demonstrated merit, they will be elected to apprenticeships. Apprentices will work side by side with professors and off-campus "research master craftspersons" for 2 to 6 weeks-long enough to demonstrate first-hand the responsible and ethical conduct of research, but short enough that the student can still flourish independently. Upon completion of a written report and advancement to Ph.D. candidacy, Apprentices become Artisans. Among other privileges and responsibilities, Artisans may write minigrants in support of original ideas. After a successful data defense, Artisans will be declared Craftspersons and become eligible for up to six months of "finishing school" at another university, government or industrial site. Excellent opportunities have been pre-arranged, but Craftspersons might design their own based on preliminary data from their independent minigrants. The core curriculum will be revised to serve a more interdisciplinary clientele. Team-taught, integrated lab/lectures will pay special attention to practical skills, including those required for equipment building, programming and troubleshooting. Training in the ethical conduct of science and technology, plus business issues, will be provided in two courses available to graduate and undergraduate students across campus. Students must perform a community service project and participate in a new, interdepartmental seminar. A strong reward structure will maintain student and faculty interest in this demanding experiment. The member departments and off-campus participants will share their different strengths in gender, cultural and racial diversity. More than 30 students will participate overall. Successful aspects of the experiment will spread throughout the campus, guided by a new sociometrics project to assess its effectiveness. 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 Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Education and Human Resources.