IGERT: EIGER - Exploring Interfaces through Graduate Education and Research

IGERT：EIGER - 通过研究生教育和研究探索接口

• 批准号: 0504196
• 负责人: Michael Hochella
• 金额: $ 310.18万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0504196&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; EIGER; Exploring; Interfaces; through

Exploring Interfaces through Graduate Education and Research (EIGER) is an IGERT program that focuses on new teaching, learning, and research concepts in natural interface science applied to environmental science and engineering. These natural interfaces exist on all surfaces within the Earth, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere, and living organisms. This science is highly interdisciplinary, so EIGER also explores the complex human interfaces among the people that make up technical, interdisciplinary groups, exploring better ways to build functional research teams to carry out the complex research agendas of today and the future. The intellectual merit and goal of the program is to train the first group of environmental, geological, soils, and biological scientists and engineers who will be truly interdisciplinary in the field of natural interface science, and who also will be knowledgeable in technical team dynamics. Further, EIGER includes 11 remote laboratory locations on five continents, and EIGER fellows, in teams of two, will spend research time at two of these sites in a unique program called "paired internships." EIGER's broader impact stems from the fact that it will break the mold of conventional graduate student training by directly teaching scientific interdisciplinarity from a science and engineering perspective, and technical teamwork from a human psychology perspective. Along with a full complement of professional development programs, EIGER will educate the "whole student" in a complex field vital to the leading environmental issues of the day. It is envisioned that this educational model will help drive an institutional transformation at Virginia Tech, and beyond. 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.

通过研究生教育和研究探索界面（EIGER）是一个IGERT项目，专注于将自然界面科学的新教学、学习和研究概念应用于环境科学和工程。这些自然界面存在于地球的所有表面，包括水圈、大气和生物。这门科学是高度跨学科的，因此EIGER还探索了组成技术跨学科小组的人员之间复杂的人机界面，探索更好的方法来建立功能性研究团队，以执行当今和未来的复杂研究议程。该计划的智力价值和目标是培养第一批环境，地质，土壤和生物科学家和工程师，他们将在自然界面科学领域真正跨学科，并且他们也将在技术团队动态方面知识渊博。此外，EIGER在五大洲设有11个偏远的实验室，EIGER的研究员将以两人一组的方式在其中两个实验室进行研究，这是一个名为“配对实习”的独特项目。EIGER更广泛的影响源于这样一个事实，即它将打破传统研究生培训的模式，从科学和工程的角度直接教授科学跨学科，从人类心理学的角度教授技术团队合作。随着专业发展计划的全面补充，EIGER将在当今领先的环境问题至关重要的复杂领域教育“整个学生”。预计这种教育模式将有助于推动弗吉尼亚理工大学乃至其他地方的制度转型。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。