Advanced Optical Materials

9987618大卫松树-加州圣巴巴拉大学IGERT：先进的光学材料这综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持教育和研究先进的光学材料的多学科研究生培训计划的建立。 该计划将在光学材料技术和工程的新兴领域培养学生，将新材料开发与器件制造和测试联系起来。 这一努力将受益于并增强UCSB在科学和工程教育方面的现有优势，这些优势特别来自高度协作的跨学科研究环境和先进光学材料的国际领先努力。 研究生研究培训将集中在两个具有重大科学兴趣和商业前景的领域：（1）光子光学电路;和（2）氮化物基半导体。 IGERT计划涉及来自五个部门的教师和学生，并将被构建为促进多学科团队之间的互动;参与的UCSB研究小组具有强大而多产的合作记录。 该计划的一个主要支柱是大力推广，鼓励妇女和代表性不足的少数民族学生从事科学和工程职业，重点是他们的招聘，指导和先进光学材料技术的培训。 所有IGERT学生的一个重要组成部分将是与工业和国家实验室合作伙伴的科学交流与合作，以及培养高科技小企业创造的创业观点和倡议。IGERT是一个旨在应对博士教育挑战的NSF范围内的计划。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。

9987618David Pine - University of California at Santa BarbaraIGERT: Advanced Optical MaterialsThis Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research on advanced optical materials. The program will train students in emerging areas of optical materials technology and engineering, bridging new materials development with device fabrication and testing. This effort will benefit from and augment existing strengths at UCSB in science and engineering education, which derive particularly from the highly collaborative inter-disciplinary research environment and internationally leading efforts in advanced optical materials. Graduate research training will focus on two areas of great scientific interest and commercial promise: (1) photonic optical circuits; and (2) nitride-based semiconductors. The IGERT program involves faculty and students from five departments and will be structured to promote interactions among multidisciplinary teams; the UCSB research groups involved have a strong and prolific track record for working together. A major plank of the program is a strong outreach effort to encourage women and under-represented minority students to pursue careers in science and engineering, with emphasis on their recruitment, mentoring, and training in advanced optical materials technologies. An important component for all IGERT students will be scientific exchange and cooperation with industrial and national laboratory partners, as well as the fostering of entrepreneurial perspectives and initiatives for high-technology small-business creation.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.