Faculty and Curricular Development in Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (RSSS) at the University of Illinois

伊利诺伊大学遥感与空间科学 (RSSS) 师资和课程开发

• 批准号: 1430292
• 负责人: Jonathan Makela
• 金额: $ 133.1万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-04-15 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1430292&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Faculty; Curricular; Development; Remote; Sensing

Space scientists are becoming ever more valuable to our society as we rely more heavily upon technical systems sensitive to conditions in the space environment, such as global positioning systems and high-speed communications networks. Communications, navigation and energy production and distribution are significantly affected by Space Weather, and the climatology of the near-Earth space environment. The ability to forecast disturbances which may impact these technologies hinges upon detailed knowledge and understanding of the connected Sun-Earth system, comprising the disciplines of solar physics, heliospheric physics, magnetospheric physics and aeronomy. This project is funded under the Faculty Development in Space Sciences program, the aim of which is to ensure the health and vitality of solar and space physics on university teaching faculties. Through the creation of new tenure-track faculty positions within the intellectual disciplines that comprise the space sciences, research topics in solar and space physics will be integrated into basic physics, astronomy, electrical engineering, geoscience, meteorology, computer science, and applied mathematics programs, and lead to the development of space physics graduate programs capable of training the next generation of leaders in this field. This project will support a new tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign (UI), with the purpose of expanding the breadth and depth of the research and teaching expertise within the Remote Sensing and Space Sciences group. Specifically, the new hire will target several high priority areas in space science, including: high-performance scientific computing and numerical modeling and simulation of the space environment; novel electro-optics technology for probing the space environment; novel sensor technology for distributed (constellation) sensing of the space environment; and space flight hardware design and development. Building on existing key courses, the new faculty member will work with senior faculty members in the group to develop a full, formal curriculum in remote sensing and space sciences, which does not currently exist at UI. Further, UI is pioneering the development of Massive Open Online Courses, through which the new hire will have a unique opportunity to impact space science education on a global scale. The additional hire will further strengthen and grow existing partnerships with several departments and centers and will also be encouraged to pursue new partnerships broadly with the space sciences community. To this end, funds are included in the budget for the new faculty member to host small targeted workshops in the 2nd and 4th years of the program on a research topic of their choice to encourage outside partnerships. Utilizing several established and successful departmental and institution wide programs the project will work to ensure a strong focus on increasing diversity in the recruiting both of students into the program and of the new faculty member.

空间科学家对我们的社会越来越有价值，因为我们越来越依赖对空间环境条件敏感的技术系统，如全球定位系统和高速通信网络。通信、导航以及能源生产和分配受到空间气象和近地空间环境气候学的重大影响。预测可能影响这些技术的扰动的能力取决于对相关的日地系统的详细了解和理解，包括太阳物理学、日光层物理学、磁层物理学和高空大气学等学科。 该项目由空间科学教师发展方案资助，其目的是确保大学教师的太阳和空间物理学的健康和活力。 通过在包括空间科学在内的知识学科中创建新的终身教职，太阳和空间物理学的研究课题将被整合到基础物理学，天文学，电气工程，地球科学，气象学，计算机科学和应用数学课程中，并导致能够培养该领域下一代领导者的空间物理学研究生课程的发展。该项目将支持伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳运动（UI）电气和计算机工程系（ECE）的新终身教职职位，旨在扩大遥感和空间科学组内研究和教学专业知识的广度和深度。 具体而言，新员工将瞄准空间科学的几个高优先级领域，包括：高性能科学计算和空间环境的数值建模与仿真;探测空间环境的新型电光技术;空间环境分布式（星座）传感的新型传感器技术;以及空间飞行硬件设计和开发。在现有的主要课程的基础上，新的教员将与该小组的高级教员合作，制定一个完整的，正式的遥感和空间科学课程，这是目前在UI不存在的。 此外，UI正在率先开发大规模开放式在线课程，通过该课程，新员工将有一个独特的机会在全球范围内影响空间科学教育。 额外的聘用将进一步加强和发展与几个部门和中心的现有合作伙伴关系，并将鼓励与空间科学界广泛建立新的合作伙伴关系。 为此，新教师的预算中包括资金，用于在计划的第二年和第四年举办小型有针对性的研讨会，讨论他们选择的研究课题，以鼓励外部合作伙伴关系。 利用几个既定的和成功的部门和机构范围内的计划，该项目将致力于确保一个强有力的重点是增加多样性，在招聘学生进入该计划和新的教师。