UCLA IGERT - Materials Creation Training Program (MCTP)

加州大学洛杉矶分校 IGERT - 材料创造培训计划 (MCTP)

• 批准号: 0654431
• 负责人: Robin Garrell
• 金额: $ 181.97万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0654431&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UCLA; IGERT; Materials; Creation; Training

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) renewal award supports the further development of the UCLA Materials Creation Training Program (MCTP). The MCTP enables trainees to master a specific discipline, while being immersed in the collaborative scientific cultures characteristic of careers of the future, as emphasized in the National Nanotechnology Initiative. Supported by the MCTP in their second and third years, students are trained in all aspects of the design, synthesis, and characterization of novel molecules and assemblies, and in the fabrication, characterization and marketing of devices based on these materials, including biosensors and biomaterials. The MCTP engages graduate students and faculty from Chemistry & Biochemistry, Physics, and the Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical and Aerospace, and Materials Science Engineering departments at UCLA. The trainees experience training in cross-disciplinary laboratories, classes and seminars in addition to their disciplinary graduate training and research. Key components of the program include: a co-advisor from a complementary discipline; an external internship at a company, government lab or abroad; participation in annual symposia, and training in the responsible conduct of research. To institutionalize the program, the MCTP courses will serve as the nucleus of new academic minors and a new interdepartmental PhD program in NanoScience and NanoTechnology. The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) will phase in support for MCTP fellowships and administration of these academic programs. New programs to enhance diversity and international research experiences of the trainees include a collaborative program with the UCLA Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, and a new MCTP Master Fellows Bridge Program in partnership with Cal State Los Angeles (CSULA) to enhance the training of Master's degree students at CSULA and increase the number of underrepresented students enrolling in STEM doctoral programs. The MCTP will continue its K-12 education and outreach partnership with the CNSI and Center X in the UCLA Graduate School of Education, through which the MCTP trainees work with teachers and high school students at underserved schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, providing hands-on experience with modern techniques, devices and materials. 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.

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）更新奖支持加州大学洛杉矶分校材料创作培训计划（MCTP）的进一步发展。 MCTP使学员能够掌握特定的学科，同时沉浸在未来职业的协作科学文化中，正如国家纳米技术倡议所强调的那样。在MCTP的支持下，学生在第二年和第三年接受设计，合成和表征新分子和组件的各个方面的培训，以及基于这些材料的设备的制造，表征和营销，包括生物传感器和生物材料。MCTP吸引了来自加州大学洛杉矶分校化学生物化学，物理学，化学，电气，机械和航空航天以及材料科学工程部门的研究生和教师。学员除了接受学科研究生培训和研究外，还将在跨学科实验室、课程和研讨会上接受培训。该计划的关键组成部分包括：来自互补学科的共同顾问;在公司，政府实验室或国外的外部实习;参加年度研讨会，并在负责任的研究行为方面进行培训。为了使该计划制度化，MCTP课程将作为新的学术未成年人和纳米科学和纳米技术新的跨部门博士课程的核心。加州纳米系统研究所（CNSI）将分阶段支持MCTP奖学金和这些学术课程的管理。新的计划，以提高学员的多样性和国际研究经验，包括与加州大学洛杉矶分校研究生教育联盟和教授的合作计划，以及一个新的MCTP硕士研究员桥梁计划与加州州立大学洛杉矶（CSULA）合作，以加强在CSULA硕士学位学生的培训，并增加在STEM博士课程入学的代表性不足的学生人数。MCTP将继续与CNSI和加州大学洛杉矶分校教育研究生院的X中心建立K-12教育和外展合作伙伴关系，通过该合作伙伴关系，MCTP学员与洛杉矶联合学区服务不足的学校的教师和高中生合作，提供现代技术，设备和材料的实践经验。 IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，在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。