NRT-IGE: Research to Innovation to Society

世界的创新格局正在发生变化。创新已成为可持续性的基本前提，不仅包括发现新的想法，而且还包括针对社会和市场需求的可实施的研究解决方案。应对这一转变需要STEM专业人员同时成为优秀的研究人员、有能力的创新者和熟练的领导者。在俄勒冈州立大学的研究生教育创新(IGE)轨道上，这项国家科学基金会研究培训(NRT)奖将试点和测试一个基于团队的体验式课程，同时将基础科学研究与市场研究以及专业技能开发和实践相结合。学习结果和评估数据将被用来确定这一变革性的课程是否培养出具有所需属性的研究人员，为国家STEM议程做出贡献。如果成功，试点将为这种基于团队的体验式方法作为一种新的研究生STEM学位选项的制度化奠定基础，可以在全国各地的大学采用。从研究到创新到社会的教育平台建立在市场透镜计划的基础上，旨在将所有学科的STEM研究生培养成具有职业韧性、创新的科学家和工程师。拥有STEM商业和领导力成功记录的学术和工业科学家和工程师将与教育人员合作实施课程。两组跨学科研究生团队将在他们的教师导师的支持下，扩大他们的学科研究，通过体验式学习过程探索针对社会和市场需求的可实施的研究解决方案。教学将通过多种形式进行，包括在传统课堂环境中进行面对面的团队互动，以及通过视频、网络研讨会和作业在线进行；所有材料都设计为可扩展和广泛在线访问。为了支持他们的项目，团队将从主要和次要来源收集数据，将它们暴露给商业和学术界的专家。该课程旨在培养网络、通信、数据收集和商业分析技能，并为学生的学科研究提供更广泛的社会背景。团队每月对调查结果的陈述将在向教职员工、管理人员、市场领导者和创新生态系统领导者在线和面对面进行的巅峰陈述中达到顶峰。同行、讲师和市场/商业专家在学生工作的多个阶段进行的评估和评估，将构成推荐采用这种方法作为变革性STEM研究生学位的基础。NSF研究培训(NRT)计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、新的、潜在的变革性STEM研究生教育培训模式。研究生教育创新轨道专门致力于试验、测试和评估研究生教育的新颖、创新和潜在的变革性方法。

The world's innovation landscape is changing. Innovation has become a fundamental prerequisite for sustainability that embraces not only the discovery of new ideas but also implementable research solutions to societal and market requirements. Addressing this shift requires STEM professionals who are simultaneously excellent researchers, capable innovators, and skilled leaders. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award in the Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Track to Oregon State University will pilot and test a team-based, experiential curriculum that simultaneously integrates basic scientific research with market research and with professional skill development and practice. Learning outcome and evaluation data will be used to determine if this transformative curriculum develops researchers with the desired attributes to contribute to the national STEM agenda. If successful, the pilot will lay the foundation for institutionalization of this team-based, experiential approach as a new graduate STEM degree option that can be adopted at universities across the nation. The Research to Innovation to Society educational platform is built upon the Lens of the Market program and aims to train STEM graduate students across all disciplines as career resilient, innovative scientists and engineers. Academic and industrial scientists and engineers with demonstrated track records of STEM commercial and leadership success will partner with educational faculty to implement the curriculum. Two cohorts of interdisciplinary graduate student teams, supported by their faculty advisors, will expand their disciplinary research to explore implementable research solutions to societal and market requirements through an experiential learning process. Instruction will be delivered through multiple formats including face-to-face team interactions in a traditional classroom setting and online through videos, webinars and assignments; all materials are designed to be scalable and broadly accessible online. To support their project, teams will gather data from both primary and secondary sources, exposing them to experts in both business and academe. The curriculum is designed to develop networking, communication, data gathering and business analytic skills, as well as provide a broader societal context for the students' disciplinary research. Monthly presentations of findings by teams will culminate in a capstone presentation to faculty, administration, market leaders and innovation ecosystem leaders both online and face-to-face. Assessment and evaluation at multiple stages of the students' work by peers, instructors and market/business experts will form the basis for recommending adoption of this approach as a transformative alternative STEM graduate degree. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The Innovations in Graduate Education Track is dedicated solely to piloting, testing, and evaluating novel, innovative, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education.