IGERT: Urban Environmental Sustainabilty -- A Multidisciplinary Doctoral Education Program

这一综合性教育与研究培训(IGERT)奖将支持在南加州大学现有的环境科学、政策和工程(ESPE)项目中建立城市环境可持续发展的多学科研究生培训项目。这项活动是由来自工程学院、文学艺术与科学学院、医学院环境工程、土木工程、化学工程、地球科学、生物科学、地理学、政治学、经济学和医学系的11名科学家和工程师共同努力的。这组科学家和工程师已经建立了研究合作关系，他们的集体专业知识将为在该奖项的五年任期内培训一支由大约70名研究生和30名本科生组成的多样化干部提供智力基础。这一IGERT活动提供了一个由四部分组成的综合计划，包括一个关于城市和城市系统的研讨会；三门团队授课的课程(城市环境：研究与政策问题；环境技术；以及环境研究中的边界谈判)；由多学科教员团队监督的博士级别的个人研究；以及为客户进行的由教员监督的多学科协作项目。课程多样性将通过战略招聘研究生和本科生以及ESPE教师的多样化来最大化。IGERT是一个新的NSF范围内的项目，旨在促进创新的、以研究为基础的研究生项目的建立，这些项目将培训不同的科学家和工程师群体，为充分利用广泛的职业选择做好准备。IGERT为博士机构提供了一个机会，以开发新的、重点明确的、超越组织边界的多学科研究生课程，并团结来自几个系或机构的教师，为培训和研究建立一个高度互动、协作的环境。在该计划的第一年，将为17个机构提供支持，这些机构的新项目或新生项目共同涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award will support the establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program in Urban Environmental Sustainability within the existing Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Engineering (ESPE) Program at the University of Southern California. This activity is a joint effort of eleven scientists and engineers from the Departments of Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences, Geography, Political Science, Economics, and Medicine in the School of Engineering, the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and the College of Medicine. This group of scientists and engineers has established research collaborations and their collective expertise will provide the intellectual underpinning for the training of a diverse cadre of some seventy graduate students and thirty undergraduates over the five-year tenure of the award. This IGERT activity provides an integrated four-part program consisting of a seminar on cities and urban systems; three team-taught courses (The Urban Environment: Research and Policy Issues; Environmental Technologies; and Negotiating Boundaries in Environmental Research); individual doctoral-level directed research supervised by a multidisciplinary faculty team; and a faculty-supervised, multidisciplinary collaborative project conducted for a client. Program diversity will be maximized through strategic recruiting of graduate and undergraduate trainees, and by diversification of the ESPE faculty. IGERT is a new, NSF-wide program intended to facilitate the establishment of innovative, research-based graduate programs that will train a diverse group of scientists and engineers to be well-prepared to take advantage of a broad spectrum of career options. IGERT provides doctoral institutions with an opportunity to develop new, well-focussed multidisciplinary graduate programs that transcend organizational boundaries and unite faculty from several departments or institutions to establish a highly interactive, collaborative environment for both training and research. In this first year of the program, support will be provided to seventeen institutions for new or nascent programs that collectively span all areas of science and engineering supported by NSF.