IGERT: Interdisciplinary Research Training in Rehabilitation Engineering

IGERT：康复工程跨学科研究培训

• 批准号: 1144584
• 负责人: Rory Cooper
• 金额: $ 183.56万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-15 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1144584&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Interdisciplinary; Research; Training; Rehabilitation

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award supports training in engineering and rehabilitation sciences to prepare future scientists who have a deep understanding of human function and needs, and can design innovative rehabilitation devices, systems, and techniques to help people with disabilities more fully participate in society.Intellectual Merit: This program focuses on technology innovations related to mobility, manipulation, and cognitive/behavioral limitations. A key feature of this IGERT award is in-depth technical and clinical training with each trainee being advised by a mentor team with expertise in engineering and a clinical discipline. This program is distinguished by its ability to attract high proportions of students with disabilities and veterans. The relevance of rehabilitation engineering to real life serves as an attractor for these students, allowing them the opportunity to improve their own lives and the lives of other people. Additionally, trainees will be introduced to entrepreneurship and commercialization through coursework, invited speakers, and multidisciplinary team competitions.Broader Impacts: This program is intended to make a contribution to a generation of a technically savvy, clinically astute, and innovation-minded workforce in the field of rehabilitation science and engineering. It will contribute to the basic understanding of how to create deeper collaborations between the clinical science and engineering communities to create enabling solutions for people with disabilities, how to structure graduate programs so that they are more effective in attracting and retaining a diverse set of graduate students, and how to take better advantage of the multinational character of the rehabilitation communities to improve the quality of graduate education.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 establish new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries, and to engage students in understanding the processes by which research is translated to innovations for societal benefit.

该综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持工程和康复科学的培训，培养对人类功能和需求有深刻理解的未来科学家，并能够设计创新的康复设备，系统和技术，以帮助残疾人更充分地参与社会。智力优势：该计划侧重于与移动性，操纵和认知/行为限制相关的技术创新。该IGERT奖项的一个关键特征是深入的技术和临床培训，每位学员都由具有工程和临床学科专业知识的导师团队提供建议。该计划的特点是能够吸引高比例的残疾学生和退伍军人。康复工程与真实的生活的相关性吸引了这些学生，使他们有机会改善自己的生活和其他人的生活。此外，学员将通过课程作业、特邀演讲者和多学科团队竞赛了解创业和商业化。更广泛的影响：该计划旨在为康复科学和工程领域的一代技术娴熟、临床敏锐和具有创新意识的劳动力做出贡献。它将有助于基本了解如何在临床科学和工程界之间建立更深层次的合作，为残疾人创造有利的解决方案，如何构建研究生课程，使其更有效地吸引和留住多样化的研究生，以及如何更好地利用康复社区的跨国性质来提高研究生教育的质量。IGERT是一个NSF-广泛的计划，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。该计划旨在为研究生教育和培训建立新的模式，为超越传统学科界限的合作研究创造肥沃的环境，并让学生了解研究转化为创新以造福社会的过程。