EDT: Front Range Applied Mathematics Exchanges and Workshops

这个名为框架(前沿应用数学交流和研讨会)的合作项目的目标是通过结合写作、演示和研究活动来改变数学科学中的博士培训，为博士生提供市场上的技能和技术工具，以促进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，该计划将可持续地扩大产能，支持学生丰富的非学术和学术经验，并允许学员在毕业生涯早期参与拓宽活动，节省以后的时间用于密集的学位论文项目工作，从而不会影响学位时间。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其他科学和工程领域中出现的问题。在框架的支持下，每个博士生将花一到两个暑期时间，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，学生们将处于有利地位，可以继续在外部合作伙伴的组织工作，从而获得最终可能在毕业后带来就业机会的经验。最终，该计划将拓宽数学科学博士毕业生的职业道路，并提高完成实习、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，框架项目还将成为一种招生工具，以增加申请博士项目的合格美国学生的数量，特别是女性和代表性不足的少数族裔。框架计划包含四个核心内容：(1)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、提案撰写和预算制定；(2)年度暑期结束研讨会，在此期间，即将到来的博士生将接受写作技能培训，并展示前一批人的实习经验；(3)课程交流计划，将允许共享提供基础研究生课程，以便其他教职员工可以自由地提供新的高级和特殊主题的课程；以及(4)有针对性地在非博士院校招收社区大学和学士学位学生，这将增加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、西部研究院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。在与这些合作伙伴磋商后，框架计划开发了广泛的研究问题，以补充威斯康星大学和CSM的教师导师的优势。提出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，以及检测轨道车辆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传统博士课程所不具备的专业技能和非学术机会。总体而言，这一合作项目将为其他类似配对的机构在加强全国博士教育方面的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.