IGERT Program in Nanotechnology

9987620Viola Vogel -华盛顿大学IGERT：纳米技术这项综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持建立一个多学科的纳米技术教育和研究研究生培训计划。这个领域从科学和技术的革命性进步中汲取灵感，建造极小的结构和设备。纳米尺度的结构只有几十亿分之一米长，比人的头发还小1000倍。建造这些结构的专业知识正在迅速增长，并从物理学、电子学、化学、材料科学、生物学、生物技术和医学的基础进步中获益。这种跨学科的纳米技术方法需要传统上分离的科学和技术领域之间的密切合作。因此，华盛顿大学纳米技术研究生教育项目将培养新一代的科学家和工程师，他们将跨越这些学科的界限。研究生将进入七个参与部门之一，并通过额外的课程学习、研究经验、现代纳米分析工具的实践培训、研讨会、专题讨论会和社会互动，参与纳米技术中心。其他选择包括工业实习计划和各种证书课程。该学生毕业时将获得内务部和纳米技术的博士学位，例如物理和纳米技术。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足培养具有多学科背景和未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能的博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立新的、创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，促进研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第三年，奖项将颁发给19个机构，这些机构的项目涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。这一特殊奖项的智力焦点在于工程、数学和物理科学以及教育和人力资源部门。

9987620Viola Vogel - University of WashingtonIGERT: NanotechnologyThis Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and researchin nanotechnology. This field draws from revolutionizing advances in science and enabling technology to build extremely small structures and devices. Nano-scale structures are several billionth of a meter long, about a thousand times smaller than the human hair. Expertise to build these structures is growing rapidly, and capitalizes from fundamental advances in physics, electronics, chemistry, material sciences, biology, biotechnology and medicine. This interdisciplinary approach to nanotechnology requires close cooperation among fields of science and technology that are traditionally separated. The new graduate education program in Nanotechnology at the University of Washington will thus educate a new generation of scientists and engineers who will cross those disciplinary boundaries. Graduate students will enroll in one of the seven participating departments and become involved with the Center for Nanotechnology through additional course work, research experiences, hands-on training on modern nano-analytical tools, seminars, symposia, and social interactions. Additional options include an industrial internship program, and various certificate programs. The student will graduate with a Ph.D from a home department and Nanotechnology, for example in Physics and Nanotechnology.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing new, innovative models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the third year of the program, awards are being made to nineteen institutions for programs that collectively span all areas of science and engineering supported by NSF. The intellectual foci of this specific award reside in the Directorates for Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Education and Human Resources.