EDT: Front Range Applied Mathematics Exchanges and Workshops

这个名为框架（前沿应用数学交流与研讨会）的合作项目的目标是通过结合写作、演讲和研究活动来改变数学科学博士的培训，为博士生提供市场技能和技术工具，以进一步发展他们的非学术职业机会。通过共享怀俄明大学（UW）和科罗拉多矿业学院（CSM）的互补资源，该项目将持续扩大能力，为学生提供丰富的、非学术的和学术的经历，并允许学员在研究生生涯的早期参与更广泛的活动，节省以后几年在论文项目上的密集工作，这样获得学位的时间就不会受到影响。在正式的论文研究开始之前，学生将开发数学和统计方法来解决其他科学和工程领域出现的问题。由框架资助的每个博士生将花一到两个暑假的时间与来自工业界、国家实验室或研究机构的外部合作伙伴合作进行跨学科研究问题。由于这些暑期研究经历，学生们将很好地定位于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，该计划将拓宽数学科学博士毕业生的职业道路范围，并提高完成实习、进入工业劳动力市场和接受国家实验室博士后职位的学生的质量和数量。最后，该框架项目还将成为一种招聘工具，以增加申请博士项目的合格美国学生的数量，特别是女性和少数族裔。框架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课程之外的应用，如技术交流，项目管理，提案写作和预算制定；(2)每年一次的夏末研讨会，对即将入学的博士生进行写作技能培训，并展示上一届博士生的实习经历；(3)课程交换计划，共享研究生基础课程，使其他教师可以自由地提供新的高级和专题课程；(4)在非博士院校定向招收社区学院和学士学位生，增强博士培养渠道的多样性。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同意就该项目进行合作。在与这些合作伙伴协商后，框架项目开发了广泛的研究问题，以补充西澳大学和CSM教师导师的优势。拟议的项目包括地下流动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，以及检测铁路车辆车轮材料缺陷的计算方法等。写作工作坊、专题课程和暑期实习项目将向学生介绍传统博士项目所不具备的专业技能和非学术机会。总的来说，这一合作项目将为其他类似的合作机构在全国范围内加强博士教育合作提供一个可移植的模式。

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.