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

IGERT：神经工程-系统工程和神经科学的统一教育计划

• 批准号: 0903622
• 负责人: Douglas Jones
• 金额: $ 299.24万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0903622&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Neuroengineering; Unified; Educational; Program

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.

这个综合教育和研究培训项目 (IGERT) 将为伊利诺伊大学培养多元化的神经科学家和工程师，让他们对神经科学和工程学有深入的了解，使他们能够跨越这些领域之间的传统差距，参与复杂的合作和独立研究。未来许多最重要、最令人兴奋的科学和技术挑战都集中在神经科学，即大脑的研究上。 最近（以及未来）在理解大脑方面的许多进展取决于用于传感、成像和分析大脑的新技术以及神经科学家对这些技术的创新使用。 同样，一些最大和最重要的技术挑战，例如为残疾人制造神经假体，需要工程师对神经科学有深刻的理解。 因此，IGERT 的学生将在具有重大科学和工程重要性的神经科学领域开展创新的跨学科研究，例如言语和听力、大脑和成像以及神经植入，这可能会导致理解大脑和残疾人神经假肢等新技术的革命性进步。 IGERT 学员还将接受领导力、沟通技巧、负责任的研究行为以及学术或工业职业生涯准备方面的培训。 IGERT 是一项 NSF 范围内的计划，旨在应对美国博士生教育的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，对所选学科有深厚的知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，促进研究生教育的文化变革。