Advanced Optical Materials

9987618 David Pine-加州大学圣巴巴拉分校IGERT：高级光学材料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高级光学材料教育和研究研究生培训计划。该项目将在新兴的光学材料技术和工程领域培训学生，将新材料开发与设备制造和测试联系起来。这一努力将受益于并增强加州大学伯克利分校在科学和工程教育方面的现有优势，这些优势尤其来自高度协作的跨学科研究环境和先进光学材料方面的国际领先努力。研究生研究培训将集中在两个极具科学兴趣和商业前景的领域：(1)光子光学电路；(2)氮化物半导体。IGERT计划涉及来自五个系的教职员工和学生，其结构将促进多学科团队之间的互动；参与的UCSB研究小组在合作方面有着强大而多产的记录。该计划的一个主要内容是大力宣传，鼓励女性和代表性不足的少数族裔学生在科学和工程领域追求职业生涯，重点是他们在先进光学材料技术方面的招聘、指导和培训。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，以及为高科技小企业创造培养创业视角和倡议。IGERT是一个NSF范围的项目，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工程学、数学和物理科学以及教育和人力资源理事会。

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.