IGERT: Multidisciplinary Integration of High Performance Computing in Ph. D. Programs in Science and Engineering

21世纪的科学和技术将由计算技术主宰。培训准备充分的计算科学家和工程师需要一种超越标准学术课程的方法。该IGERT项目将为遵循特定学科研究的学生提供计算科学培训的多学科计划，这将最大限度地提高他们对计算科学的跨学科性质及其工业应用领域的了解。该计划将在研究生，培训他们的学术教师以及最终可能成为他们雇主的工业，政府和学术研究实验室之间建立三方界面。它将通过在这些机构的访问和实习方案提供培训机会。 当学生们继续攻读博士学位时，在他们所选择的领域内，他们还将获得计算科学证书，以表彰他们所发展的特殊专业知识。学生将有机会获得国家的最先进的计算设施在大学，并将参加多学科研讨会，讲习班和定期会议与教师和学生在这个程序。 他们还将参加有关计算领域科学家相关的道德和法律问题的专门讲座。将作出特别努力，加强理科学生人数不足群体的学生的参与。IGERT项目的优点是，通过来自许多不同部门的教师的团队合作，为大量从事学科研究的博士生提供有关计算科学方法和应用范围的广泛教育。这个跨学科项目的成果将通过研讨会、研讨会和网络出版广泛传播，因此它将在建立一个培训模型方面产生广泛的影响，该模型用于培训正在各个学科领域接受教育的计算科学学生。IGERT是一个全国科学基金会范围内的计划，旨在应对美国博士教育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。

Science and technology of the twenty first century will be dominated by computing. The training of well prepared computational scientists and engineers demands an approach that transcends the strictures of the standard academic curriculum. This IGERT project will provide students who follow discipline-specific studies with a multidisciplinary program of training in computational science that will maximize their exposure to the cross-disciplinary nature of computational science and to its realm of industrial applications. This program will build a three-way interface between graduate students, the academic faculty training them, and industrial, government, and academic research laboratories who may ultimately be their employers. It will offer training opportunities through a program of visits and internships at such institutions. As the students proceed towards a Ph.D. within their chosen field, they will also earn a certificate in computational science in recognition of the special expertise that they have developed. The students will have access to state-of-the-art computational facilities at the University and will participate in multidisciplinary seminars, workshops and regular meetings with faculty and students in this program. They will also attend specialized lectures on ethics and issues of law that are relevant for scientists in the computational field. Special efforts will be made to enhance the participation of students from groups underrepresented in the sciences. The IGERT project will have the merit of providing a large number of doctoral students pursuing disciplinary research with broad education on the methods and scope of application of computational science, through the teamwork of faculty from many different departments. The results of this interdisciplinary project will be widely disseminated through seminars, workshops and web publishing and thus it will have the broad impact of establishing a model for training in computational science students who are pursuing education in a variety of disciplinary fields.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.