IGERT: Doctoral Training at the Interface of Chemistry and Physics: New Materials for Electronics and Optics through Control of Nanoscale Structure

这个IGERT计划提供了一个全国独特的，全面的一揽子新的和测试的方法，在材料化学和物理研究生教育。它的目的是准备下一代研究生的挑战日益跨学科和快速发展的研究和发展领域。这个IGERT项目的研究和教育活动是由电子和光学材料的结构/性质关系的研究统一的，这些材料的性质由它们的纳米级结构主导。拟议的研究建立在三个主要推力领域的既定活动基础上，以解决：(i)超晶格材料的合成和性质；（ii）金属和半导体纳米粒子、量子点和组件的制备和研究；以及（iii）分子组件的制备和性质。这些研究课题为跨学科的研究生培训提供了很好的机会，因为短尺度系统的化学和物理都是交织在一起的。这项计划在大学内部和我们的工业分支机构中得到了广泛的支持，因为它提供了多学科的研究经验，促进了工业/学术关系，并为学生在多样化和不断变化的就业市场中成为成功的参与者做好了准备。我们以学生为中心的课程旨在实现三个目标：(i)帮助每个学生获得多样化，适应性强和便携式的技术技能和知识基础，以便在快速发展的职业市场中取得成功；（ii）帮助每个学生培养解决复杂问题和理解新现象所需的批判性思维技能；（三）为每个学生提供全面的职业培训，即专业技能的发展，接触多种职业机会，以及针对特定职业道路的培训。为了实现这些目标，已经制定了一个全面和充分整合的研究生培训计划。培训计划的主要活动包括：新的跨学科课程，核心工程课程，第一年的研究轮岗，跨学科研究机会，有针对性的工业或学术界实习，以及全面的职业准备。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足培养具有多学科背景和未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能的博士科学家和工程师的挑战。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，促进研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第四年，22个机构获得了奖项，这些项目涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。这一特殊奖项的智力焦点在于数学和物理科学理事会；工程;教育与人力资源。

This IGERT program offers a nationally-unique, comprehensive package of new and tested approaches to graduate education in materials chemistry and physics. It is designed to prepare the next generation of graduate students for the challenges of an increasingly interdisciplinary and rapidly evolving research and development arena. The research and education activities of this IGERT program are unified by the study of the structure/property relationships in electronic and optical materials whose properties are dominated by their nanoscale structure. The proposed research builds upon established activities in three major thrust areas to address the: (i) synthesis and properties of superlattice materials; (ii) preparation and study of metal and semiconductor nanoparticles, quantum dots and assemblies; and (iii) fabrication and properties of molecular assemblies. These research topics provide outstanding opportunities for interdisciplinary graduate training because both the chemistry and physics of short-length-scale systems are intertwined. This initiative has received wide-ranging support within the University and among our industrial affiliates because it provides a multidisciplinary research experience, stimulates industrial/academic relations and prepares students to be successful participants in diverse and changing job markets. Our student-focused program is designed to address three goals: (i) help each student acquire diverse, adaptable and portable technical skills and the knowledge base to succeed in rapidly evolving career markets; (ii) help each student develop the critical thinking skills necessary to solve complex problems and understand new phenomena; and (iii) provide each student with comprehensive career training, i.e. development of professional skills, exposure to many career opportunities, and training tailored to specific career paths. To achieve these goals, a comprehensive and fully integrated graduate training program has been developed. Key activities of the training program include: new interdisciplinary courses, core engineering courses, research rotations during the first year, interdisciplinary research opportunities, targeted internships in industry or academia, and comprehensive career preparation.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 Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Engineering; and Education and Human Resources.