IGERT: Nanoscale Science and Engineering - From Building Blocks to Functional Systems

这个IGERT项目是加州大学伯克利分校的纳米科学与工程项目。这个IGERT项目的主要科学目标和智力价值涉及该领域的三个重要主题：新型功能器件和系统的纳米结构合成和加工，纳米级表征和建模。每一种方法都是为了促进纳米结构与工程系统的集成。入选该项目的学生将专注于五个研究子领域之一：纳米电子学、纳米光子学、纳米生物学、纳米磁学和纳米力学。他们将掌握跨多个学科和多个部门提供的核心课程。学生将在两名来自工程和物理科学的导师的共同指导下进行博士研究，他们将通过在IGERT教师实验室内外的跨实验室调查接受额外的实践培训。国内和国际实习计划将有助于本计划的广泛影响，并构成IGERT教育经验的组成部分。学生可以选择在工业或国家实验室完成实习，也可以选择在国外的机构工作，其中一些我们已经建立了密切的联系。该大学将利用一系列服务来招募多元化的学生群体，并取得了令人期待的成功。将积极征聘妇女和代表性不足的少数群体。我们还计划与全国少数民族工程研究生学位联盟（GEM计划）和国家物理科学联盟一起补充IGERT项目。榜样和导师是成功征聘和留住妇女和少数民族的关键。我们强大的教师团队和行业导师将为我们的研究生提供重要的指导。将实施外联项目，吸引当地高中中代表性不足群体的学生。它们包括课后科学研讨会和暑期纳米科学与工程高中实习。包括IGERT计划的教师致力于领导和参与外展和教育活动，这些活动将促进社区和国家纳米科学和工程的知识和欣赏。加州大学伯克利分校处于独特的地位，拥有致力于纳米科学和工程的不同寻常的资源组合。值得注意的是，加州大学伯克利分校的校长已经将纳米科学和纳米工程确定为校园三大研究重点之一，并做出了机构承诺，将研究资源集中在对即将到来的纳米工程革命至关重要的领域。该项目将在伯克利建立一种新型的跨学科研究领域的研究生教育中发现其特殊的智力价值。跨学科的IGERT课程将允许建立创新的教育理念，为加州大学伯克利分校的合格研究生做好准备，以满足这一迅速扩大的领域的未来需求。这个实习项目涵盖了三个学院的九个研究生项目，每个项目在纳米科学和工程方面都有自己独特的方法和强大的研究能力。该项目的持久影响将不仅仅局限于科学成就，它将对纳米尺度上的工程物体的构建、理解和控制做出重要贡献。同样重要的是研究生教育的模式转变，特别是伯克利的工程教育，预计将产生超出本项目范围的长期影响。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个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。在该计划的第六年，奖项将颁发给那些由NSF支持的科学和工程领域的项目的机构。

This IGERT Program is in nanoscale science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. The key scientific goals and intellectual merit of this IGERT program address three important themes of this field: nanostructure synthesis and processing of novel functional devices and systems, nanoscale characterization, and modeling. Each of these is designed to facilitate the integration of nanostructures into engineered systems. Students selected for this program will focus on one of five research sub-areas: nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, nanobiology, nanomagnetics, and nanomechanics. They will master core courses offered across several disciplines and multiple departments. Students will carry out their Ph.D. research under the joint supervision of two advisors from both engineering and the physical sciences, and they will receive additional practical training through cross-laboratory investigations within and outside of the labs of IGERT faculty.A national and international internship program will contribute to the broader impacts of this program and constitute an integral part of the IGERT educational experience. Students may elect to complete their internship either in an industrial or national laboratory, or they can choose to work at institutions abroad with several of which we already have established close contacts. An array of services at the university will be utilized for the recruitment of a diverse student body, with much-anticipated success. Women and underrepresented minority groups will be recruited actively. We also plan to complement the IGERT program with the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering (the GEM Program) and the National Physical Sciences Consortium. Role models and mentors are key to the successful recruitment and retention of women and minorities. Our strong group of faculty and industrial mentors will provide crucial guidance to our graduate fellows. Outreach programs to engage students from underrepresented groups in local high schools will be implemented. They include After-School Science Workshops and Summer High- School Internships in Nanoscience and Engineering. The faculty comprising the IGERT program are committed to leadership and participation in outreach and educational activities that will foster knowledge and appreciation of nanoscience and engineering in the community and nationally. UC Berkeley is in the unique position of having an unusual combination of resources committed to nanoscale science and engineering. Significantly, the Chancellor of UC Berkeley has identified nanoscience and nanoengineering as one of the top three research priorities on campus and has made an institutional commitment to focus research resources on areas that will be critical in the upcoming nanoengineering revolution. This program will find its specific intellectual merit in the establishment a new kind of graduate education at Berkeley in a research area that is unprecedented in its impact across disciplines. The interdisciplinary IGERT curriculum will allow to establish innovative educational concepts to prepare qualified graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, for the future demands of this rapidly expanding field. This traineeship program spans nine graduate programs in three colleges, each with its own unique approaches to and robust research capabilities in nanoscale science and engineering. The lasting impact of this project will not be limited to the scientific achievements that will make an important contribution towards the building, understanding, and controlling of engineered objects on the nanometer length scale. Equally important will be a paradigm shift in graduate education, especially in Engineering education at Berkeley that is expected to have long-lasting impact beyond the scope of this program.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.