IGERT: Hybrid Neural Microsystems: Integrating Neural Tissue and Engineered Systems

IGERT：混合神经微系统：集成神经组织和工程系统

• 批准号: 0333411
• 负责人: Robert Butera
• 金额: $ 370.33万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-11-15 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0333411&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Hybrid; Neural; Microsystems; Integrating

This IGERT program is focused on the creation of a training environment that combines cellular and systems neuroscience with microelectronics/computing technology and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The novel combination of disciplines will result in a program whose intellectual merit is embodied in the development and application of systems that integrate neural tissue and engineered components. Research applications range from enhancing knowledge of living organisms, to augmenting damaged neuronal tissue, to creating biologically-inspired engineered systems. The participating faculty members have a strong track record of interdisciplinary education and research that has laid the foundation for this effort. The IGERT program will build upon this foundation through a combination of educational infrastructure and interdisciplinary research opportunities that will facilitate the training of IGERT fellows, who will emerge from the program as a new breed of scientist-engineer that understands and can apply knowledge that crosses these two, previously disparate disciplines.This program will impact the participating institutions and the broader neuroengineering community through its educational, recruitment, and professional-development components. Educational efforts formalize interactions among programs at Georgia Tech and Emory, resulting in the integrated training of biology and engineering students to address issues at the intersection of these two disciplines. The program includes many interlinked educational components, including the capstone Hybrid Neural Microsystems course, which combines laboratory experience, problem-based learning, and implicit mentoring. The recruitment and retention efforts target the creation of a candidate pool of potential neuroscience and engineering students who are prepared for this program. These efforts will focus on the recruitment of a significant population of under-represented minority students, capitalizing upon existing partnerships between Georgia Tech, Emory, and the colleges of the Atlanta University Center. Career development will be fostered by engaging the fellows in collaborative international experiences and in industrial internships, enhancing, in the process, existing relationships with these international and industrial partners.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, 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 this sixth year of the program, awards are being made to institutions for programs that collectively span the areas of science and engineering supported by NSF.

该IGERT计划侧重于创造一个将细胞和系统神经科学与微电子/计算技术和微电子机械系统(MEMS)相结合的培训环境。这一新颖的学科组合将产生一个项目，其智力优势体现在集成神经组织和工程组件的系统的开发和应用中。研究应用范围从增强对活生物体的知识，到增强受损的神经元组织，再到创造生物灵感的工程系统。参与的教职员工在跨学科教育和研究方面有着良好的记录，这为这一努力奠定了基础。IGERT计划将通过教育基础设施和跨学科研究机会的结合，促进IGERT研究员的培训，这些研究员将从该计划中脱颖而出，成为了解并能够应用跨越这两个以前不同学科的知识的新型科学家-工程师。该计划将通过其教育、招聘和专业发展部分影响参与机构和更广泛的神经工程社区。教育努力使佐治亚理工学院和埃默里大学的项目之间的互动正规化，从而对生物和工程专业的学生进行综合培训，以解决这两个学科交叉的问题。该计划包括许多相互关联的教育组成部分，包括Capstone混合神经微系统课程，该课程结合了实验室经验、基于问题的学习和隐性指导。招聘和留住工作的目标是创造一个潜在的神经科学和工程学学生的候选者池，他们已经为这个项目做好了准备。这些努力将侧重于招收大量代表不足的少数族裔学生，利用佐治亚理工学院、埃默里大学和亚特兰大大学中心学院之间的现有合作伙伴关系。通过让研究员参与国际协作经验和行业实习，在此过程中加强与这些国际和行业合作伙伴的现有关系，将促进职业发展。IGERT是一个NSF范围的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、选定学科的深厚知识以及未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目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，催化研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第六个年头，由NSF支持的共同跨越科学和工程领域的项目将被授予机构奖项。