IGERT: Teaching Craft for Macromolecular Creativity

9987603Paul Russo-Louisiana州立大学IGERT：高分子创新教学技术这一综合性研究生教育和研究培训(IGERT)奖支持建立一个多学科的研究生教育和研究计划，涉及高分子的合成、表征、加工和理论。八个系的学生将参加这次IGERT实验。经过上述主题领域的研究驱动的正式培训后，学生将加入一个包括其他学生、教职员工和校外参与者的跨学科团队。研究组合包括工程学、好奇心驱动型科学和应用科学。学徒-工匠-工匠梯子是从贸易艺术改编而来的，以培养技能、创造力、道德、责任和哲学。学生们将提前到达，参加一个夏天的研究发现和道德培训。根据被证明的优点，他们将被选为学徒。学徒将与教授和校外的研究大师工匠并肩工作2至6周--时间足够证明研究的负责任和道德行为，但也足够短，学生仍然可以独立发展。在完成一份书面报告并晋升为博士候选人后，学徒就会成为工匠。在其他特权和责任中，工匠们可能会写一些小移民来支持原创思想。在一次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、政府或工业现场接受长达六个月的“精修学校”。绝佳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。核心课程将进行修订，以服务于更多跨学科的客户。团队授课的综合实验室/讲座将特别注重实践技能，包括设备制造、编程和故障排除所需的技能。关于科学技术的道德行为以及商业问题的培训将通过两门课程提供，面向校园内的研究生和本科生。学生必须完成一个社区服务项目，并参加一个新的跨部门研讨会。强大的奖励结构将保持学生和教职员工对这项要求苛刻的实验的兴趣。成员部门和校外参与者将分享各自在性别、文化和种族多样性方面的不同优势。总共将有30多名学生参加。在一个新的社会测量学项目的指导下，这项实验的成功方面将在整个校园内传播，以评估其有效性。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有多学科背景的博士科学家和工程师的挑战，以及未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能。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数学和物理科学、工程、教育和人力资源理事会。

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.