IGERT: Multidisciplinary Training in Reliability and Risk Engineering, Analysis, and Management

这个IGERT项目将在范德比尔特大学建立一个可靠性和风险工程、分析和管理方面的多学科研究生课程。该项目的25名教师来自三个不同的学院：工程(土木工程、机械、化学、电气工程和计算机科学，以及技术管理)、管理和文理(数学)。研究主题包括三个相互关联的领域：(I)大系统可靠性和风险，(Ii)设备和部件级可靠性，以及(Iii)不确定性分析方法。随着工程系统的规模、复杂性和成本的增长，可靠性和风险评估越来越依赖于建模和仿真，而不是昂贵的(或不可能的)传统的基于测试的方法。因此，研究主题的独特之处在于：(I)开发基于建模和模拟的可靠性和风险评估方法；(Ii)系统地整合跨学科的模型和工具；(Iii)将经济、法律、监管和社会视角纳入风险评估和管理。研究项目将把这些概念应用于基础设施、环境、网络、机械和电子系统。教育目标是扩大多学科视角的培训，嵌入信息技术，包括模型集成和高性能计算技术，并增加在建模和模拟方法方面接受培训的可靠性和风险工程师和管理人员的数量和多样性。为实现这些目标提出了若干战略：多学科课程和论文专题、实验室轮换、行业和政府实验室实习、研讨会、讲习班、案例研究、专业交流和道德培训、本科和高中教师参与者、积极招聘(特别是在代表性不足的群体中)以及行业、政府和学术界的系统评估。该计划将包括几个行业、政府机构和国家实验室的大力参与和支持，通过实习、研讨会和研讨会参与、教育和研究合作以及咨询委员会。通过这些努力，该研究生课程的目标是成为一个自给自足的国内和国际领导力中心。IGERT奖将使S在9年内获得35名博士学位，满足了美国行业在这一重要领域的迫切需求。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。在该计划的第四年，22个机构被授予奖项，这些机构的项目共同涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。这一具体奖项的知识焦点位于工程学；社会、行为和经济科学；计算机和信息科学与工程；数学和物理科学；以及教育和人力资源理事会。

This IGERT project will establish a multidisciplinary graduate program in reliability and risk engineering, analysis, and management at Vanderbilt University. Twenty-five faculty participants in this program are drawn from three different schools: Engineering (Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Management of Technology), Management, and Arts and Sciences (Mathematics). The research theme consists of three inter-linked areas: (i) large systems reliability and risk, (ii) device- and component-level reliability, and (iii) uncertainty analysis methods. As engineering systems grow in size, complexity and cost, reliability and risk assessment is increasingly dependent on modeling and simulation, rather than on expensive (or impossible) traditional test-based methods. Therefore, the unique features of the research theme are: (i) development of the modeling and simulation-based methodology for reliability and risk assessment, (ii) systematic integration of models and tools across disciplines, and (iii) inclusion of economic, legal, regulatory, and social perspectives in risk assessment and management. The research projects will apply these concepts to infrastructure, environmental, network, mechanical, and electronic systems. The educational goals are to broaden the training with multidisciplinary perspectives, embed information technology, include model integration and high performance computing technologies, and increase the number and diversity of reliability and risk engineers and managers trained in the modeling and simulation methodology. A number of strategies are proposed to achieve these objectives: multidisciplinary coursework and dissertation topics, laboratory rotations, industry and government laboratory internships, seminars, workshops, case studies, training in professional communication and ethics, undergraduate and high school teacher participants, aggressive recruitment (especially among underrepresented groups), and systematic evaluation by industry, government and academia. The program will include strong participation and support from several industries, government agencies and national laboratories, through internships, workshop and seminar participation, educational and research collaboration, and advisory committee. Through these efforts, the graduate program aims to become a self-sustaining center of national and international leadership. The IGERT award will lead to 35 Ph.D.'s over 9 years, fulfilling a critical need of the American industry in this important field. 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 fourth year of the program, awards are being made to twenty-two 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; Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences; Computer and Information Science and Engineering; Mathematical and Physical Sciences; and Education and Human Resources.