IGERT: MultiScale Transport in Environmental and Physiological Systems (MultiSTEPS)

IGERT：环境和生理系统中的多尺度传输 (MultiSTEPS)

基本信息

批准号：
0966125
负责人：
Mark Stremler
金额：
$ 230万
依托单位：
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2010
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2010-07-01 至 2017-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0966125&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
IGERT MultiScale Transport Environmental Physiological

项目摘要

Transport processes such as fluid motion in biological systems at cellular, organismal and environmental levels are a key aspect of such challenges as targeted drug delivery, preventing cancer cell metastasis, and controlling pathogen spread through the biosphere. The discovery, analysis, and solution of critical issues in biological transport requires a new generation of truly interdisciplinary researchers who are educated in both engineering and biology, who merge these perspectives, and who can communicate effectively with fellow researchers, policy makers, and the public. The MultiSTEPS Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program establishes a sustainable framework of interdisciplinary research and education that will prepare future leaders of academic and industrial research to collaborate on, analyze and solve emerging problems in transport that are at the intersection of the engineering and biological sciences. Trainees advance through a systematic multi-step process of interdisciplinary coursework, peer interaction, community development and cross-disciplinary research experiences, including formal training in ethics and professional development. Training involves cross-disciplinary education through coursework and teaching experiences, community-building interactive seminars, interdisciplinary research rotations, international research opportunities, interaction with industry, and a unique internal collaborative grant competition among the trainees. Building upon the resources of Virginia Tech's Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity, the MultiSTEPS program will recruit and retain a diverse population of future innovators and equip them with the multidisciplinary intellectual tools and methods necessary to tackle complex and challenging problems in human health, and sustainable agricultural and environmental practices. 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.

运输过程，例如在细胞，生物和环境水平的生物系统中的流体运动，是靶向药物递送，防止癌细胞转移以及控制病原体通过生物圈传播的挑战的关键方面。生物运输中关键问题的发现，分析和解决方案要求新一代真正的跨学科研究人员在工程和生物学上受过教育，合并这些观点，并可以与研究人员，政策制定者和公众有效交流。多步骤综合研究生教育和研究训练（IGERT）计划建立了一个可持续的跨学科研究和教育框架，该框架将使未来的学术和工业研究领导者为在工程和生物科学的交通中进行合作，分析和解决运输中的新兴问题。受训者通过跨学科课程，同伴互动，社区发展和跨学科研究经验（包括道德和专业发展的正式培训）进行系统的多步骤过程。培训涉及通过课程和教学经验，社区建设互动研讨会，跨学科研究轮换，国际研究机会，与行业的互动以及受训者之间独特的内部协作赠款竞争，涉及跨学科教育。在弗吉尼亚理工大学增强工程多样性中心的资源的基础上，Multisteps计划将招募并保留多样化的未来创新者，并为他们配备了解决人类健康中复杂和挑战性问题所必需的多学科知识工具和方法，以及可持续的农业和环境实践。 IGERT是一项旨在应对美国博士学位的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，所选学科的深刻知识以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过在肥沃的环境中建立创新的研究生教育和培训的新模型来促进研究生教育的文化变革，以超越传统学科界限的合作研究。