IGERT: Solving Urbanization Challenges by Design - A New PhD Program Between Architecture and Engineering

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持哥伦比亚大学一个新的博士项目的发展，该项目将结合建筑和工程的观点来应对日益增长的城市化挑战。该计划将为博士生提供开展研究所需的多学科设计和规划技能，以满足新的城市要求：(1)适应性-设计建筑物和电力，交通，水和卫生基础设施，具有足够的灵活性，可以随着城市需求的发展和周围各种城市结构的直接环境的变化而重新利用；(2)生态学-设计以解决建筑，城市景观，土地利用和基础设施的环境绩效；(3)复原力——设计建筑物和基础设施，预测气候变化对海平面的影响，以及人为和自然灾害的可能性。这个IGERT最重要的智力贡献将是审查规划和整体设计的相互依存需求，以适应、生态和复原力。协作建筑和工程工作室将被用作整合博士水平的工程和建筑研究方法的教学工具。城市利益相关者参与工作室研究将有助于确保研究在实践中具有相关性和适用性。与位于欧洲，非洲和亚洲的城市环境中的大学合作将为该计划提供全球视角。将作出重大努力，确保妇女和代表性不足的少数民族广泛参与该方案。IGERT将培养一批多样化的博士生，他们可以帮助制定当代城市化所需的政策、优先事项和投资。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。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award supports the development of a new Ph.D. program at Columbia University that will combine architecture and engineering perspectives to address the growing challenges of urbanization. The program will provide doctoral students with the multidisciplinary design and planning skills needed to conduct research to meet new urban requirements for: (1) adaptability - designing buildings and power, transport, water and sanitation infrastructure with sufficient flexibility to be repurposed as urban needs evolve, and as the immediate environment surrounding various urban structures changes; (2) ecology - designing to address the environmental performance of buildings, urban landscapes, land uses and infrastructure; and (3) resilience - designing buildings and infrastructure anticipating the impact of climate changes on sea level, and the possibility of man-made and natural disasters. The most important intellectual contribution of this IGERT will be the examination of the interdependent requirements of planning, and designing holistically for adaptability, ecology and resilience. Collaborative architectural and engineering studios will be used as a pedagogical tool for integrating engineering and architectural research approaches at the doctoral level. The involvement of urban stakeholders in the studio research will help ensure that the research is relevant and applicable in practice. Collaborations with universities in urban environments located within Europe, Africa and Asia will provide a global perspective to the program. Significant efforts will be made to ensure broad participation of women and under-represented minorities in the program. The IGERT will graduate a cohort of diverse doctoral students who can help shape the policies, priorities, and investments needed for contemporary urbanization. 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.