EDT: Front Range Applied Mathematics Exchanges and Workshops

EDT：前沿应用数学交流和研讨会

• 批准号: 1551229
• 负责人: Stephen Pankavich
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Colorado School of Mines
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-03-01 至 2020-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1551229&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EDT; Front; Range; Applied; Mathematics

The goal of this collaborative project, entitled FRAMEWORK (Front Range Applied Mathematics Exchanges & Workshops), is to transform doctoral training in the mathematical sciences by incorporating writing, presentation, and research activities that provide Ph.D. students with marketable skills and technical tools to further their non-academic career opportunities. By sharing complementary resources at both the University of Wyoming (UW) and the Colorado School of Mines (CSM), the program will sustainably expand capacity, support enriched, non-academic and academic experiences for students, and allow trainees to participate in broadening activities early in their graduate careers, saving later years for intensive work on dissertation projects so that time to degree will not be affected. Prior to the start of formal thesis research, students will develop mathematical and statistical approaches to tackle problems arising in other areas of science and engineering. Each doctoral student supported by FRAMEWORK will spend one or two summer periods working on interdisciplinary research problems in collaboration with an external partner from industry, a national laboratory, or a research institution. Due to these summer research experiences, the students will be well positioned to continue work at the external partners' organizations, thereby gaining experience that could ultimately lead to employment opportunities after graduation. Ultimately, the program will broaden the range of career paths for Ph.D. graduates in the mathematical sciences, and increase the both the quality and quantity of students who complete internships, enter the industrial workforce, and accept postdoctoral positions at national labs. Finally, the FRAMEWORK program will also serve a recruiting tool to increase the number of qualified U.S. students who apply to Ph.D. programs, especially women and under-represented minorities. The FRAMEWORK program contains four central elements: (1) Summer internship opportunities at nonacademic organizations, which will introduce PhD students to applications outside their coursework such as technical communication, project management, proposal writing, and budget development; (2) Annual end-of-summer workshops, during which incoming PhD students will be trained in writing skills and the previous cohort's internship experiences will be showcased; (3) A course exchange program that will enable the shared delivery of foundational graduate courses so that other faculty members will be free to offer new advanced and special-topics courses; and (4) The targeted recruitment of community-college and baccalaureate students at non-doctoral institutions, which will enhance the diversity of the Ph.D. pipeline. A variety of external partners, including the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Western Research Institute, and the Wyoming Technology Business Center, have agreed to collaborate on this project. In consultation with these partners, the FRAMEWORK program has developed broad research problems that complement the strengths of faculty mentors at UW and CSM. Proposed projects include uncertainty quantification for subsurface flow and renewable energy problems, the modeling and simulation of infectious disease dynamics, and computational methods for detecting material flaws in the wheels of railroad cars, among others. The writing workshops, special-topics courses, and summer internship programs will introduce students to professional skills and nonacademic opportunities that are atypical for traditional doctoral programs. In general, this collaborative venture will serve as a portable model for other, similarly paired institutions to cooperate in enhancing doctoral education throughout the nation.

这个合作项目的目标，题为框架（前沿应用数学交流研讨会），是通过结合写作，演讲和研究活动，提供博士学位转化在数学科学博士培训。学生有市场的技能和技术工具，以进一步他们的非学术职业机会。通过在怀俄明州大学（UW）和科罗拉多矿业学院（CSM）共享互补资源，该计划将可持续地扩大能力，为学生提供丰富的非学术和学术经验，并允许学员在研究生职业生涯的早期参与扩大活动，为论文项目的密集工作节省晚年时间，以便学位不会受到影响。在正式论文研究开始之前，学生将开发数学和统计方法来解决科学和工程其他领域出现的问题。每个由框架支持的博士生将花一个或两个暑期与来自行业，国家实验室或研究机构的外部合作伙伴合作研究跨学科研究问题。由于这些暑期研究经验，学生将有能力继续在外部合作伙伴组织工作，从而获得经验，最终可能导致毕业后的就业机会。 最终，该计划将扩大博士的职业道路范围。在数学科学的毕业生，并增加谁完成实习，进入工业劳动力，并接受国家实验室博士后职位的学生的质量和数量。最后，FRAMEWORK计划还将作为一种招聘工具，以增加申请博士学位的合格美国学生的数量。特别是妇女和代表性不足的少数民族。FRAMEWORK计划包含四个核心要素：（1）在非学术组织的暑期实习机会，这将向博士生介绍他们的课程之外的应用，如技术交流，项目管理，提案写作和预算编制;（2）每年夏季末讲习班，在此期间，即将到来的博士生将接受写作技能培训，并展示前一届的实习经验;（3）课程交换计划，这将使基础研究生课程的共同交付，以便其他教师可以自由地提供新的高级和专题课程;（4）有针对性地在非博士机构招收社区学院和学士学位学生，这将提高博士学位的多样性。渠道.包括国家大气研究中心、国家可再生能源实验室、西部研究所和怀俄明州技术商业中心在内的各种外部合作伙伴已经同意在这个项目上进行合作。在与这些合作伙伴协商，框架计划已经开发了广泛的研究问题，补充在UW和CSM教师导师的优势。拟议的项目包括地下水流和可再生能源问题的不确定性量化，传染病动力学的建模和模拟，以及用于检测铁路汽车车轮材料缺陷的计算方法等。写作研讨会，专题课程和暑期实习计划将向学生介绍专业技能和非学术机会，这对于传统的博士课程来说是非典型的。 一般来说，这种合作企业将作为其他类似配对机构合作加强全国博士教育的便携式模型。