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

这一综合性教育和研究培训(IGERT)项目将培养伊利诺伊大学的一批神经科学家和工程师，他们对神经科学和工程学都有深入的了解，使他们能够在这些领域之间的传统鸿沟中从事复杂的合作和独立研究。未来许多最重要和最令人兴奋的科学和技术挑战都集中在神经科学上，这是对大脑的研究。在了解大脑方面，许多最近(和未来)的进展依赖于设计新的大脑传感、成像和分析技术，以及神经科学家对这些技术的创新使用。同样，一些最大、最重要的技术挑战，比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，如言语和听力、脑和成像，以及神经移植，这可能会导致对大脑的理解和新技术(如为残疾人使用的神经假体)的革命性进步。IGERT受训人员还将接受领导力、沟通技能、负责任的研究行为以及为学术或工业职业生涯做准备的培训。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目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，催化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.