IGE: Partnership with Researchers in Industry for Doctoral Education (PRIDE)

与传统的好奇心驱动的研究相比，受启发的研究往往更直接地解决关键的社会需求，而工业研究工作通常与受启发的研究更紧密地联系在一起。虽然这两种类型的研究所需的许多技能和能力是重叠或互补的，但研究生可能没有机会在传统的学术环境中充分探索与行业相关的技能和思维方式。 加强产业界和学术界之间的合作可以弥合这一差距，大多数机构的做法都涉及短期的行业实习。美国国家科学基金会授予利哈伊大学的研究生教育创新奖（IGE）将测试一种研究生培养模式，该模式代表了以学生为中心的整体方法，为学生提供长期的实践行业经验。 该方法的一个关键特征是早期和持续的行业参与，行业合作伙伴参与确定形成学生论文基础的研究问题，指导，提供专业发展模块，并在公司实习期间监督学生（类似于医学院培训）。 这种方法是在法国、德国和英国的成功方案之后模仿的，目的是在美国测试这种模式。 据推测，这种方法将更有效地培养研究生从事使用启发的研究，并为他们提供在工业环境中蓬勃发展所需的技能和知识。该项目将试点和测试这一使用启发式研究培训模式的几个关键特征：（a）与一家公司进行项目前夏季体验，以确定研究主题;（B）来自大学和合作伙伴公司的共同顾问;（c）由教师和行业研究人员共同教授的模块化研究生专业发展;以及（d）一到两个学期的公司实习。这四个要素的有效性将使用混合方法进行评估，着眼于通过与行业合作伙伴的差距分析确定的关键学生技能。 这项研究将使用来自个别学生的纵向数据以及与非参与性对照组的比较。 研究结果将帮助我们了解为STEM研究生体验式开辟行业职业道路的最有效方法。研究生教育创新（IGE）计划专注于研究生教育研究。 IGE的目标是试验、测试和验证研究生教育的创新方法，并产生将这些方法推广到更广泛的社区所需的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

Use-inspired research often addresses critical societal needs more directly than traditional curiosity-driven research, and industrial research efforts are generally more closely aligned with use-inspired research. While many of the skills and competencies needed for both types of research are overlapping or complementary, graduate students may not have the opportunity to fully explore industry-related skillsets and mindsets in a traditional academic setting. Stronger collaboration between industry and academia can bridge this gap, with most institutional approaches involving a short-term industry internship. This National Science Foundation Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) award to Lehigh University will test a graduate training model that represents a student-centered, holistic approach that gives students long-term, hands-on industry experience. A key feature of the approach is early and sustained industry engagement, with industry partners involved in identification of the research question that forms for the basis for the student's thesis, mentoring, delivery of professional development modules, and supervision of students during a company residency (similar to medical school training). This approach is patterned after successful programs in France, Germany and the UK, with the intent of testing the model in the United States. It is hypothesized that the approach will train graduate students more effectively to engage in use-inspired research and prepare them with the skills and knowledge necessary to thrive in an industrial setting. The project will pilot and test several key features of this use-inspired research training model: (a) a pre-program summer experience with a company to identify a research topic; (b) co-advisers from the university and partner company; (c) modular, graduate-level professional development co-taught by faculty and industry researchers; and (d) a one to two semester company residency. The effectiveness of these four elements will be assessed using a mixed-methods approach, with an eye toward critical student skillsets identified through a gap analysis with industry partners. The study will use both longitudinal data from individual students as well as comparisons to non-participatory control groups. The findings will inform our understanding of the most effective ways to experientially open industry career paths for STEM graduate students.The Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is focused on research in graduate education. The goals of IGE are to pilot, test and validate innovative approaches to graduate education and to generate the knowledge required to move these approaches into the broader community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.