IGERT: Biological and Bio-inspired Motion Systems Operating in Complex Environments

IGERT：在复杂环境中运行的生物和仿生运动系统

• 批准号: 0903711
• 负责人: Robert Full
• 金额: $ 319.51万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 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: 2009-08-15 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0903711&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Biological; Bio; inspired; Motion

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program will train biology and engineering students to learn from natural design - a process termed biological inspiration. In particular, trainees will discover principles that underlie how organisms move in complex environments, and learn to use those principles as inspiration to design human-engineered systems. Four focus areas for research opportunities include the mechanics of systems that locomote, their control mechanisms, the structure and function of their materials, and their evolution. A three-stage training program integrates with the research focus and is facilitated by a new Berkeley center - CiBER - the Center for interdisciplinary Biological-inspiration in Education and Research. Stage 1offers a customized core curriculum to develop a common scientific language, and to discover opportunities to contribute to and benefit from bio- and bio-inspired motion systems. Trainees will participate in a new research-based teaching laboratory where teams of biology and engineering students work together to make original biomechanical discoveries. This experience transitions them into Stage 2 where they begin research rotations and international experiences at leading European institutes guided by a "Bionics" network. In Stage 3, students learn the application of discovery through entrepreneurship courses and internships. Developing direct pipelines to a diverse group of undergraduates will encourage participation of women and underrepresented groups. Trainees in this IGERT will advance the field of motion science with research leading to novel inventions that may never have been considered by engineers such as gecko-inspired hairy adhesives, artificial muscles, new prostheses, and search-and-rescue robots. By sharing these advances with the public, non-scientists will see more clearly why we must preserve the diversity of species and their environments - before their secrets are lost forever. 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.

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）项目将训练生物学和工程学学生从自然设计中学习，这一过程被称为生物灵感。特别是，学员将发现生物在复杂环境中如何运动的原理，并学习将这些原理作为设计人类工程系统的灵感。研究机会的四个重点领域包括运动系统的力学，它们的控制机制，它们的材料的结构和功能以及它们的演变。一个三个阶段的培训计划与研究重点相结合，并由一个新的伯克利中心- CiBER -跨学科生物灵感教育和研究中心提供便利。第一阶段提供定制的核心课程，以发展共同的科学语言，并发现为生物和生物启发运动系统做出贡献和受益的机会。学员将参加一个新的研究型教学实验室，在那里，生物学和工程学的学生团队一起工作，做出原始的生物力学发现。这段经历使他们进入第二阶段，在“仿生学”网络的指导下，他们开始在欧洲领先的研究所进行研究轮换和国际经验。在第三阶段，学生通过创业课程和实习学习发现的应用。建立面向不同本科生群体的直接渠道将鼓励女性和代表性不足的群体的参与。这个IGERT的学员将通过研究推动运动科学领域的发展，从而导致工程师们可能从未考虑过的新发明，如受壁虎启发的毛茸茸的粘合剂、人造肌肉、新型假肢和搜救机器人。通过与公众分享这些进步，非科学家将更清楚地看到为什么我们必须保护物种及其环境的多样性——在它们的秘密永远消失之前。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。