NRT-IGE: Research to Innovation to Society

世界创新格局正在发生变化。创新已经成为可持续发展的基本先决条件，它不仅包括新想法的发现，还包括可实施的研究解决方案，以满足社会和市场的需求。解决这一转变需要STEM专业人士，他们同时是优秀的研究人员、有能力的创新者和熟练的领导者。俄勒冈州立大学研究生教育创新（IGE）轨道上的国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）奖将试点和测试一个以团队为基础的体验式课程，该课程同时将基础科学研究与市场研究以及专业技能发展和实践相结合。学习成果和评估数据将用于确定这一变革性课程是否培养出具有为国家STEM议程做出贡献所需属性的研究人员。如果成功，该试点将为这种以团队为基础的体验式方法制度化奠定基础，作为一种新的STEM研究生学位选择，可以在全国各地的大学采用。“从研究到创新到社会”教育平台建立在“市场视角”项目的基础上，旨在培养所有学科的STEM研究生，使其成为职业弹性强、创新的科学家和工程师。具有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教师合作实施课程。两组跨学科的研究生团队将在导师的支持下，通过体验式学习过程，扩展他们的学科研究，探索可实施的研究解决方案，以满足社会和市场的需求。教学将通过多种形式进行，包括在传统课堂环境中面对面的团队互动，以及通过视频、网络研讨会和作业进行的在线教学；所有材料都设计成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，将他们暴露给商业和学术界的专家。该课程旨在培养学生的网络、沟通、数据收集和商业分析技能，并为学生的学科研究提供更广阔的社会背景。团队每月的研究成果报告将在教师、管理人员、市场领导者和创新生态系统领导者的在线和面对面演讲中达到顶峰。由同行、导师和市场/商业专家对学生工作的多个阶段进行评估和评价，将形成建议采用这种方法作为STEM研究生学位的变革性选择的基础。美国国家科学基金会研究实习生（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、新的、具有潜在变革性的STEM研究生教育培训模式。研究生教育创新轨道专门用于试点，测试和评估新颖，创新和潜在的变革性研究生教育方法。

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.