IGERT: Achieving Environmental, Industrial, and Societal Sustainability via the Sustainable Futures Model

世界人口的迅速增长、资源的过度消耗以及我们生活环境的污染正在危及子孙后代享有与我们相同的生活质量的能力。一项涉及密歇根理工大学和巴吞鲁日南方大学的拟议综合研究生教育和研究培训 (IGERT) 计划通过建立一个多学科、跨机构的博士教育计划来解决这一问题，该计划旨在通过可持续未来模型实现环境、工业和社会的可持续性。可持续未来 IGERT 的使命是教育/培训研究生并让他们参与知识、方法和工具的开发，以促进和实现社会、环境和工业活动的可持续性。 IGERT 训练有素的博士生和研究产品将成为实现环境、工业和社会可持续发展的催化剂，并将可持续发展制度化作为工业和政府的绩效衡量标准。这些机构将相互合作，优势互补，向每位 IGERT 学员灌输多学科意识，以制定有效的工程决策和公共政策意见，以实现有凝聚力和可持续的环境、工业和社会未来。 这种元学科发展方法将促进对可持续未来的知识和理解（旨在实现三重底线），教职员工和学生参与一项创新计划，以教育和培训个人研究、理解和交流新技术和新政策。密歇根理工大学和南方大学的参与者在他们的研究工作和教育经验中表现出了对实现这些目标的持续承诺。更广泛的影响。该计划的主要特点将促进 IGERT 学员的研究、培训和教育的整合，通过可持续未来模型的有效研究、传播和社会制度化（K-灰色）来发现、制定和社会传播信息。 这将通过两个校区之间的合作课程、会议和互动研究来实现。 国际经验和实习计划将为 IGERT 学员提供实用且多样化的方法和方法，以促进知识增长、付诸实践以及向更大社会传递信息。 该计划将确保至少三分之一的参与学生来自代表性不足的群体，包括女性、南方大学的有色人种学生以及密歇根理工学院传统服务的中西部各州，从而促进对多样性的承诺。 此外，一项积极的计划将侧重于吸引来自密歇根理工学院附近的当地和区域印第安人保留地的美国原住民代表。

A rapidly increasing world population, over consumption of resources, and contamination of the environment in which we live are jeopardizing the ability of future generations to have the same quality of life that we enjoy. A proposed Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) initiative involving Michigan Technological University and Southern University at Baton Rouge addresses this concern by establishing a multidisciplinary, inter-institutional doctoral education program directed at Achieving Environmental, Industrial, and Societal Sustainability via the Sustainable Futures Model. The mission of the Sustainable Futures IGERT is to educate/train and involve graduate students in the development of knowledge, methods, and tools that promote and enable sustainability in terms of society, environment, and industrial activity. Trained doctoral students and research products produced by the IGERT will serve as catalysts for achieving environmental, industrial, and societal sustainability, and institutionalizing sustainability as a performance measure in industry and government.Intellectual Merit. The institutions will collaboratively complement the strengths of each other to instill in each IGERT trainee the multidisciplinary awareness to formulate valid engineering decisions and public policy opinions toward cohesive and sustainable environmental, industrial, and societal futures. This meta-disciplinary development approach will advance the knowledge and understanding of Sustainable Futures (directed at achieving the triple bottom line) with faculty and students participating in an innovative program to educate and train the individual to research, understand, and communicate new technology and new policy. Participants at Michigan Tech and Southern University have demonstrated continuous commitment to accomplishing these goals in their research efforts and educational experiences.Broader Impact. Key features of the program will promote the integration of research, training, and education of IGERT trainees toward the discovery, formulation, and the social diffusion of information through effective research, dissemination, and societal institutionalization (K-gray) of the Sustainable Futures Model. This will be accomplished through collaborative coursework, meetings, and interactive research between the two campuses. International experiences and an internship program will offer IGERT trainees practical and diverse approaches and methodologies to facilitate knowledge growth, put into practice, and information transfer to the larger society. The program will foster a commitment to diversity by insuring that at least one third of the participating students are from underrepresented groups including women, students of color from Southern University as well as the Mid-western states that Michigan Tech traditionally serves. In addition, an aggressive plan will focus on attracting Native American representation from local and regional Indian Reservations near Michigan Tech.