NRT: Alabama Collaborative for Contemporary Education in Precision Timing (ACCEPT)

NRT：阿拉巴马州精密计时当代教育合作组织 (ACCEPT)

• 批准号: 2244074
• 负责人: Adam Hauser
• 金额: $ 299.8万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-15 至 2028-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2244074&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NRT; Alabama; Collaborative; Contemporary; Education

Over one-third of the U.S. economy ($11 Trillion annually) directly depends on precision timing. Precision timing (PT) is an integral part of our national security. Incredibly, there is no degree program in the US dedicated to training young talent in the timekeeping technologies that underpin our society. In response, the University of Alabama (UA) has created the first MS and PhD concentrations in precision timing, incorporating courses in physics, engineering, and mathematics, developed through direct conversation with corporate and government partners. These conversations made clear that the field of precision time and frequency requires talent that can apply large-scale communication and negotiation skills across multiple STEM disciplines while considering business and national security interests as well. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award, the Alabama Collaborative for Contemporary Education in Precision Timing (ACCEPT), will develop an innovative graduate (MS, PhD) education model responsive to the unique needs for precision timing workforce development. ACCEPT will provide a comprehensive training and educational opportunity for one hundred and sixty (160) MS and PhD students, including twenty-four (24) funded trainees from physics, mathematics, and electrical and computer engineering. Trainees will combine coursework across these three departments with professional development in critical areas identified by precision timing experts (teamwork, leadership, ethics, communication), and put their training into practice via research experiences with ACCEPT partners, student-led initiatives, and networking at conferences and workshops.Precision timing (PT) is a highly interdisciplinary field that requires a wide range of academic and processional skillsets. Integrating them requires significant practical immersion that includes learning, practice, and growth experiences. The NRT program team will build a training program for versatile STEM professionals equipped to take on leadership roles in precision timing based on three pillars: 1) an interdisciplinary curriculum where foundational STEM courses lead to PT-focused courses blending hands-on technology immersion and discussion-based PT seminars; 2) holistic workforce development (professional, communication, scientific) with integrated application from day one, and 3) a sustained professional immersion experience for students to grow technical and workforce skills in realistic use-case scenarios. Trainees will build from a strong disciplinary foundation to successful interdisciplinary work while integrating real-world training and development. Trainees will learn to run a time service facility; analyze, investigate, and optimize time signals; and innovate to make clocks more robust, reliable, and compact. In parallel, they will gain the experience and skills necessary to communicate with stakeholders in business, government, and defense. This requires them to understand the importance of PT in our society, the importance of navigating the extensive interpersonal network that is the PT field, and to be ethically trained and grounded. The program will boost research and education infrastructure through the creation of a scalable, transferable template for interdisciplinary degree programs in PT. Academic departments nationally will benefit as the program is readily scalable and transferable to any STEM graduate program, with summative and formative evaluation approaches informing programmatic stability. 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 program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.  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.

超过三分之一的美国经济（每年11万亿美元）直接取决于精确时机。精确时机（PT）是我们国家安全不可或缺的一部分。令人难以置信的是，美国没有学位课程致力于培训基于我们社会的计时技术的年轻人才。作为回应，阿拉巴马大学（UA）通过与公司和政府合作伙伴直接对话开发了精确时机的第一个MS和PHD浓度，增加了物理，工程和数学课程。这些对话清楚地表明，精确时间和频率领域需要才能在多个STEM学科上运用大规模的沟通和谈判技巧，同时也考虑商业和国家安全利益。这项国家科学基金会研究训练（NRT）奖，阿拉巴马州当代教育的精确时机合作（ACCEPT），将开发创新的毕业生（MS，PhD）教育模型，以应对精确时机劳动力发展的独特需求有效。 Accept将为一百六十（160）个MS和博士生提供全面的培训和教育机会，包括来自物理，数学以及电气和计算机工程的二十四（24）名资助的学员。学员将在这三个部门的课程工作与精确时机专家（团队合作，领导力，道德，沟通）确定的关键领域的专业发展相结合，并通过接受接受伙伴，学生主导的计划和网络的研究经验将他们的培训置于练习中，并在会议和工作室上进行网络，要求范围内的范围，要求其跨学科的范围，要求其跨学科的练习。包括学习，实践和成长经验。 NRT计划团队将根据三个支柱的精确计时扮演领导角色的多功能STEM专业人员建立培训计划：1）跨学科课程，基础STEM课程导致以PT为中心的课程融合PT的动手技术浸入技术，并基于讨论的PT SEMIAR； 2）从第一天开始的整体应用以及综合应用，以及3）持续的专业沉浸体验，使学生在现实的用例场景中提高技术和劳动力技能。学员将从强大的纪律基础到成功的跨学科工作，同时整合现实世界的培训和发展。学员将学会运营时间服务设施；分析，调查和优化时间信号；并创新，使时钟更加健壮，可靠和紧凑。同时，他们将获得与商业，政府和国防利益相关者进行交流所需的经验和技能。这要求他们了解PT在我们的社会中的重要性，即导航广泛的人际网络的重要性，该网络是PT领域，并接受道德培训和扎根。该计划将通过为PT中的跨学科学位课程创建可扩展的，转移的模板来促进研究和教育基础设施。由于该计划易于扩展并将其转移到任何STEM研究生计划，因此全国范围内的学术部门将受益，并采用汇总和形成性的评估方法为程序稳定性提供了信息。 NSF研究训练（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施用于STEM研究生教育培训的大胆，新的潜在变革模型。该计划致力于通过全面的跨学科或收敛性研究领域的STEM研究生进行有效培训，通过全面的培训模型，这些模型具有创新，基于循证的，并且与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求保持一致。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是宝贵的支持。