IGERT: Neuroengineering-A Unified Educational Program for Systems Engineering and Neuroscience

这个综合教育和研究培训（IGERT）项目将培养伊利诺伊大学神经科学家和工程师的多样化骨干，使他们对神经科学和工程都有深入的了解，使他们能够在这些领域之间的传统差距中从事复杂的合作和独立研究。未来许多最重要、最激动人心的科学和技术挑战都集中在神经科学上，即对大脑的研究。在理解大脑方面，许多最近（以及大多数未来）的进展都依赖于用于感知、成像和分析大脑的工程新技术，以及神经科学家对这些技术的创新应用。同样，一些最伟大、最重要的技术挑战，比如为残疾人制造神经义肢，需要对神经科学有深刻理解的工程师。因此，IGERT的学生将在具有重大科学和工程意义的神经科学领域进行创新的跨学科研究，例如语音和听力，大脑和成像，以及神经植入物，这些领域可能会在理解大脑和新技术方面取得革命性进展，例如残疾人神经假肢。IGERT的受训者还将接受领导能力、沟通技巧和负责任的研究行为方面的培训，并为学术或工业生涯做准备。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 Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) project will educate a diverse cadre of neuroscientists and engineers at the University of Illinois with an advanced understanding of both neuroscience and engineering, enabling them to engage in both sophisticated collaboration and independent research across the traditional gap between these domains. Many of the most important and exciting scientific and technological challenges for the future are centered on neuroscience, the study of the brain. Many recent (and most future) advances in understanding the brain depend on engineering new technologies for sensing, imaging, and analyzing the brain and their innovative use by neuroscientists. Similarly, some of the greatest and most important technological challenges, such as creating neural prostheses for the disabled, require engineers with a profound understanding of neuroscience. IGERT students will thus carry out innovative interdisciplinary research on neuroscience areas of great scientific and engineering importance, such as speech and audition, brain and imaging, and neural implants that may lead to revolutionary advances in understanding the brain and in new technologies such as neural prostheses for the disabled. IGERT trainees will also receive training in leadership, communication skills, and the responsible conduct of research as well as preparation for academic or industrial careers. 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.