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

这个综合教育和研究培训（IGERT）项目将教育伊利诺伊大学的神经科学家和工程师的多样化干部，对神经科学和工程有着深入的了解，使他们能够跨越这些领域之间的传统差距进行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，即对大脑的研究。 许多最近（和未来）在理解大脑方面的进展取决于神经科学家对大脑传感、成像和分析的新技术及其创新应用。 同样，一些最大和最重要的技术挑战，如为残疾人创造神经假体，需要对神经科学有深刻理解的工程师。 IGERT的学生将因此进行创新的跨学科研究神经科学领域的重大科学和工程的重要性，如语音和听力，大脑和成像，以及神经植入物，可能导致革命性的进步，了解大脑和新技术，如神经假体为残疾人。 IGERT学员还将接受领导力，沟通技巧和负责任的研究行为以及学术或工业职业生涯的准备培训。 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。

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.