IGERT: Graduate Training in Biologically Inspired Materials

IGERT：仿生材料研究生培训

• 批准号: 0221632
• 负责人: Robert Clark
• 金额: $ 290.08万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-12-15 至 2008-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0221632&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Graduate; Training; Biologically; Inspired

The vision of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems research and educational program is to map traditional engineering onto biology. Through this approach, the IGERT project seeks to establish a new curriculum for graduate education in Biologically Inspired Materials and Materials Systems. The curriculum serves as an integration of natural science, life science, and engineering. This program will create a new graduate training program that uses biologically inspired approaches to bridge a gap in current biomedical and bioengineering programs. The Center's vision is to bring nature's engineering into the engineering curriculum and engineering principles into the study of materials, revolutionizing the way engineering and life sciences are taught at the graduate student level. Thus, this IGERT project will develop a new paradigm for education and research, using nature as an example for engineering, while explaining nature using engineering principles and rigor. This program focuses on three specific areas: (1) Bio-NanoScience and Engineering (single molecules and self-assembly), (2) Encapsulation, Coatings, and Surface Patterning (materials at the cellular scale where the lipid bilayer serves as the defining basis of all life), and (3) Hierarchical Systems (larger, more macroscopic, functional organisms). This focused approach will allow students and faculty to develop mapping concepts to the leading edge of knowledge and to explore the intellectual and practical aspects of creating a new curriculum at the interfaces of biology, medicine, engineering, and basic physical and chemical sciences. This is an initial step towards establishing a new paradigm in science and engineering education that explores life's mechanisms at the molecular level and translates these findings up through hierarchical scales of structure and organization to bring greater understanding of mechanism to the biological organism and unique designs to engineered devices.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. 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 innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the fifth year of the program, awards are being made to twenty-one institutions for programs that collectively span the areas of science and engineering supported by NSF.

生物启发材料和材料系统研究和教育计划中心的愿景是将传统工程映射到生物学上。通过这种方法，IGERT项目旨在为生物启发材料和材料系统的研究生教育建立一个新的课程。该课程是自然科学，生命科学和工程的整合。该计划将创建一个新的研究生培训计划，使用生物启发的方法来弥合目前生物医学和生物工程课程的差距。该中心的愿景是将自然工程纳入工程课程，将工程原理纳入材料研究，彻底改变工程和生命科学在研究生阶段的教学方式。因此，IGERT项目将为教育和研究开发一种新的范式，将自然作为工程的例子，同时使用工程原理和严谨性来解释自然。该计划侧重于三个具体领域：（1）生物纳米科学与工程（单分子和自组装），（2）封装，涂层和表面图案化（在细胞尺度上的材料，其中脂质双层作为所有生命的定义基础），和（3）分层系统（更大，更宏观，功能性生物体）。这种集中的方法将使学生和教师能够将映射概念发展到知识的前沿，并探索在生物学，医学，工程学以及基础物理和化学科学的界面上创建新课程的智力和实践方面。这是建立科学和工程教育新范式的第一步，该范式在分子水平上探索生命机制，并将这些发现转化为结构和组织的层次尺度，以更好地理解生物有机体的机制和工程设备的独特设计。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在应对教育美国博士的挑战。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创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在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。在该计划的第五年，该奖项将颁发给21个机构，这些机构的计划共同跨越了NSF支持的科学和工程领域。