Bridge to the Future for GIs: Crucial Education for Operation Rebuild America

美国军人通往未来的桥梁：重建美国行动的关键教育

• 批准号: 0926620
• 负责人: Sue Rosser
• 金额: $ 21.77万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0926620&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bridge; Future; GIs; Crucial; Education

Georgia Tech proposes to respond to the national needs of building infrastructure, returning GIs, and dearth of U.S. trained engineers by using this planning grant to create an innovate, interdisciplinary graduate program to prepare Post-9-11 veterans for leadership in the national initiative to rebuild America?s infrastructure. Intellectual Merit: In order to create the innovative, interdisciplinary graduate program to prepare the Post-9/11 veterans for leadership in rebuilding the U.S. Infrastructure, Georgia Tech (GT) proposes first to initiate an extensive survey about the needs and interest of Post-9/11 GIs in graduate engineering educations and the career leadership positions likely to be open to them after receiving graduate degrees. These data would be made widely available to all institutions so that they could plan for the influx of returning GIs. GT then proposes to develop an innovative model interdisciplinary PhD that capitalizes on the skills and military experience in planning, implementation, and leading teams of Post-9/11 returning GIs, to prepare them for civilian occupational leadership positions to rebuild and recreate the U.S. infrastructure of roads, schools, health, governance, energy, IT and utility systems, as proposed by the new administration in Washington. The planning grant would be used in the following five areas: 1) to assess the size of the population of Post-9/11 Bill eligible individuals potentially interested in pursuing graduate degrees in engineering nationally and locally; 2) to determine and develop the curriculum that would be most appropriate for both their interests and the national infrastructure leadership needs; 3) to assess and understand the types of curricular, con-curricular and other support services needed to help these individuals be successful in pursing graduate work; 4) to assess the career opportunities and placement available to Post-9/11 GIs with engineering PhDs; and 5) to develop relationships with the organizations vital for sustaining the program and for career opportunities and placement. Broader Impact: The interdisciplinary PhD to be developed by Georgia Tech would serve as a model that could be scaled and modified for implementation at other institutions. Because of its history with both the military and engineering, Georgia Tech is a logical place to implement a PhD. A major research university, ranked number four in graduate engineering, Georgia Tech is the largest producer of engineering, including PhD graduates, in the United States. Georgia Tech also has a long and successful relationship with the U.S. Armed Forces; Amy, Navy, and Air Force ROTC unites that also serve metro Atlanta institutions, including Georgia State University, Emory, Morehouse, Spelman, and Agnes Scott, report to the Ivan Allen College at GT. Other factors, such as the large number of military bases in the state, a law allowing out-of-state active duty persons to pay in-state tuition, an active group of military alumni, and preliminary data on the relatively large number of ROTC officers who return to graduate work at GT and the large number of reservists currently activated from Georgia suggest that the proposed interdisciplinary graduate program would have a sufficient target audience. The focus of the program on recreating the U.S. infrastructure would fill a critical national need, while providing the Post-9/11 GIs with education needed to assume leadership positions in infrastructure rebuilding. This new degree program provides the PhD educational complement to the research addressing the challenges of American?s aging infrastructure.

格鲁吉亚理工学院提议利用这一规划拨款来创建一个创新的、跨学科的研究生项目，为9-11后退伍军人在重建美国的国家倡议中担任领导职务做准备，以满足国家对基础设施建设、返回美国的美国兵和美国训练有素的工程师缺乏的需求。的基础设施。智力优势：为了创建创新的，跨学科的研究生课程，以准备后9/11退伍军人领导重建美国基础设施，格鲁吉亚技术（GT）建议首先启动一个广泛的调查后9/11地理信息系统的需求和兴趣在研究生工程教育和职业领导职位可能会向他们开放后，接受研究生学位。这些数据将被广泛提供给所有机构，以便他们能够为返回的美国大兵的涌入做出计划。GT然后提议开发一种创新模式的跨学科博士学位，利用9/11后返回的美国大兵在规划、实施和领导团队方面的技能和军事经验，为他们担任文职职业领导职位做好准备，以重建和重建美国道路、学校、卫生、治理、能源、IT和公用事业系统等基础设施，正如华盛顿新政府所提议的那样。规划补助金将用于以下五个领域：1）评估可能有兴趣在全国和地方攻读工程研究生学位的9/11法案后合格个人的人口规模; 2）确定和开发最适合他们的利益和国家基础设施领导需求的课程; 3）评估和了解帮助这些人成功完成研究生工作所需的课程，课外和其他支持服务的类型; 4）评估9/11后工程博士的职业机会和安置;和5）发展与组织的关系，这些组织对维持该计划以及职业机会和安置至关重要。更广泛的影响：由格鲁吉亚理工学院开发的跨学科博士学位将作为一个模型，可以扩展和修改，以便在其他机构实施。由于其历史与军事和工程，格鲁吉亚技术是一个合乎逻辑的地方，以实现博士学位。格鲁吉亚理工学院是一所主要的研究型大学，在工程研究生中排名第四，是美国最大的工程研究生（包括博士毕业生）。格鲁吉亚技术也有一个长期和成功的关系与美国武装部队;艾米，海军和空军后备军官训练队联合起来，也服务于亚特兰大大都会机构，包括格鲁吉亚州立大学，埃默里，莫尔豪斯，斯佩尔曼和艾格尼丝斯科特，报告给伊万艾伦学院在GT。其他因素，如大量的军事基地在该州，一项允许州外现役军人支付州内学费的法律，一个活跃的军事校友团体，关于返回GT研究生工作的相对较多的后备军官训练团军官和目前从格鲁吉亚激活的大量预备役军人的初步数据表明，拟议的跨学科研究生节目将有足够的目标观众。该计划的重点是重建美国的基础设施，这将满足国家的一个关键需求，同时为9/11后的美国大兵提供在基础设施重建中担任领导职务所需的教育。这个新的学位课程提供了博士教育补充研究解决美国的挑战？老化的基础设施。