IGERT: Optical Biomolecular Devices: From Natural Paradigms to Practical Applications

IGERT：光学生物分子器件：从自然范例到实际应用

• 批准号: 0114434
• 负责人: Neal Woodbury
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-15 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0114434&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Optical; Biomolecular; Devices; Natural

This IGERT brings together Arizona State University's well known basic research program in photosynthesis and photobiology with two other major research thrusts on campus: the Nanostructures Research Group in the Center for Solid State Electronics Research and the Bioengineering thrust within the Engineering College led by the newly formed Bioengineering Department. The research theme is the design and fabrication of molecular-scale devices based on the principles learned from photobiology. This effort represents a major expansion of the current NSF funded RTG training program in this area, shifting the educational and research focus towards the applied realm by including new faculty from four Engineering Departments and Physics as well as several industrial and international partners at Motorola, Lockheed/Martin, Kodak, QTL, CEA-Saclay, Max Planck-Muelheim, and the University of Glasgow. In order to form an integrated graduate education program between these different disciplines, the IGERT includes the creation of a Ph.D. emphasis program that will normalize the curriculum requirements across colleges. Industry will also play a major role through scientific collaborations, student internships and classroom discussion. The IGERT curriculum includes a series of courses that center on research and discovery based learning. Students will solve problems by drawing on an extensive dynamic resource infrastructure that includes both well-equipped instrument facilities, including a new biohybrid fabrication facility, and high level personnel. In addition, the program includes a major educational thrust in science policy, science ethics, and societal impact, culminating in a two week workshop at the Center for Science, Policy and Outcomes in Washington DC. Here students will have the opportunity to consider the impact that research and development in the molecular device area will have on society and to hear the thoughts of scholars who have considered the ethical and political aspects of this expanding area of science. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in research abroad and in the "Preparing Future Faculty" or "Preparing Future Professionals" programs run by the ASU Graduate College. Finally, the three IGERTs on the ASU campus will be coordinated within a superstructure run by the Dean of the Graduate College. This will facilitate common mechanisms for recruiting and evaluation, and provide a formal avenue for information exchange between IGERT faculty and students. This larger scale integration among the ASU IGERTs should result in a practical model of interdisciplinary graduate education that can be used in the future both at ASU and elsewhere. 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 Biological Sciences; Engineering; Mathematical and Physical Sciences; and Education and Human Resources.

该 IGERT 汇集了亚利桑那州立大学著名的光合作用和光生物学基础研究项目以及校园内的另外两个主要研究重点：固态电子研究中心的纳米结构研究小组和新成立的生物工程系领导的工程学院内的生物工程重点。 研究主题是根据光生物学原理设计和制造分子级器件。 这项工作代表了当前 NSF 资助的 RTG 培训计划在该领域的重大扩展，通过包括来自四个工程系和物理系的新教师以及摩托罗拉、洛克希德/马丁、柯达、QTL、CEA-Saclay、Max Planck-Muelheim 和格拉斯哥大学的几个工业和国际合作伙伴，将教育和研究重点转向应用领域。 为了在这些不同学科之间形成一个综合的研究生教育项目，IGERT 包括创建博士学位。重点计划将使各大学的课程要求正常化。 工业界也将通过科学合作、学生实习和课堂讨论发挥重要作用。 IGERT 课程包括一系列以研究和发现为基础的学习为中心的课程。 学生将通过利用广泛的动态资源基础设施来解决问题，其中包括装备精良的仪器设施（包括新的生物混合制造设施）和高水平人员。 此外，该计划还包括科学政策、科学伦理和社会影响方面的主要教育重点，最终在华盛顿特区的科学、政策和成果中心举行为期两周的研讨会。 在这里，学生将有机会思考分子器件领域的研究和开发将对社会产生的影响，并听到学者们考虑这一不断扩展的科学领域的伦理和政治方面的想法。 学生还将有机会参加国外研究以及亚利桑那州立大学研究生院举办的“培养未来教师”或“培养未来专业人员”项目。 最后，亚利桑那州立大学校园内的三个 IGERT 将在研究生院院长管理的上层建筑内进行协调。 这将促进招募和评估的通用机制，并为 IGERT 教师和学生之间的信息交流提供正式的途径。 亚利桑那州立大学 IGERT 之间的这种更大规模的整合应该会产生跨学科研究生教育的实用模型，该模型将来可以在亚利桑那州立大学和其他地方使用。 IGERT 是 NSF 范围内的一项计划，旨在应对博士生教育的挑战。具有多学科背景以及未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的科学家和工程师。该计划旨在通过在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中建立新的、创新的研究生教育和培训模式，来促进研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第四年，共有 22 个机构因 NSF 支持的科学和工程所有领域的项目而获奖。该奖项的智力重点属于生物科学理事会；工程;数学和物理科学；以及教育和人力资源。