IGERT FORMAL PROPOSAL: Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training in Geographic Information Science

小行星9870668 这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖将支持建立一个基础广泛的地理信息科学研究生培训计划，这是一个新兴的研究领域，位于认知，计算和社会科学的交叉点。 该计划将是19名教师和6名非学术导师的共同努力，他们将在私营和公共部门实习期间监督学生。 参与的教师来自7个系和图书情报学院。 参与者的合作研究重点从基础研究人类地理空间概念的个体发育到实际应用中的应用研究，如提供政府服务和环境建模。 NSF的支持将为每年18名研究生提供津贴，并支付学生研究培训的相关费用。 学生将注册并满足现有7个部门博士学位中任何一个的课程要求。课程，但将有IGERT的具体要求，4门课程，必须从一组有限的选修课程选择。 在这些必修和选修课程中，有五门是专门为IGERT计划创建的。 作为培训的一部分，学生将在一家大型软件公司或布法罗警察局完成实习。 IGERT是一个新的，NSF范围内的计划，其目标是赞助建立创新的，以研究为基础的研究生课程，这将培养一批新的科学家和工程师的多元化，为私营和公共部门的各种职业做好准备。 IGERT为开发新的，重点突出的多学科课程提供了机会，这些课程跨越了传统的组织障碍，将来自多个部门或机构的教师团结起来，为培训和研究建立一个高度互动的协作环境。 在第一年，该计划将为17个机构提供支持，用于新的或新生的项目，这些项目共同涵盖了符合NSF支持条件的科学，工程和数学的所有领域。

9870668 Mark This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award will support the establishment of a broadly- based graduate training program in geographic information science, an emerging area of research that lies at the intersection of the cognitive, computational and social sciences. The program will be a joint effort of 19 faculty and of 6 non-academic mentors who will supervise students during internships in the private and public sector. Participating faculty come from 7 departments and the school of library and information science. The collaborative research foci of participants range from basic studies the ontogeny of human conceptions of geographic space to applied research in practical applications such as delivery of governmental services and environmental modeling. NSF support will provide stipends for 18 graduate students each year, and for related costs of student research training. Students will register in and satisfy the coursework requirements of any one of 7 existing departmental Ph.D. programs, but will have IGERT- specific requirements for 4 courses and must choose from a restricted set of elective courses. Of these required and elective courses, five are to be created specifically for the IGERT program. As part of their training, students will complete an internship at a major software company or at the Buffalo police department. IGERT is a new, NSF-wide program whose goal is to sponsor the establishment of innovative, research-based graduate programs that will train a diverse group of new scientists and engineers to be well-prepared for varied careers in the private and public sectors. IGERT provides an opportunity for the development of new, well-focused multidisciplinary programs that bridge traditional organizational barriers, uniting faculty from several departments or institutions to establish a highly-interactive collaborative environment for both training and research. In its first year, the p rogram will provide support to 17 institutions for new or nascent programs that collectively span all areas of science, engineering and mathematics eligible for support by the NSF.