IGERT: Optical Commuications and Networking

中佛罗里达大学将建立一个IGERT项目，以光通信和网络为多学科研究主题，培养30名博士。学生在未来五年。该计划是来自UCF数学，统计，光学，物理，材料科学，电气工程和计算机科学以及教育部门/学校的20名科学家，工程师和教育工作者的共同努力。光通信和网络是一个特别适合IGERT的主题，因为需要开发各种多学科技术来实现下一代信息基础设施。主要的研究工作分为四个领域：先进的组件，传输，交换，网络和网络管理。每个IGERT论文项目的目的是建立在至少两个不同群体的专业知识基础上，实现增强的功能，大于部分的总和，超过两个群体独立追求的内容。每个IGERT学生的顾问团队由来自不同部门的两名或更多教师，一名工业顾问和一名非技术顾问组成，旨在确保教育，研究和培训的成功整合。工业，在这项工作中考虑的技术的用户，将参与在论文研究的开始为每个学生。该研究框架是由现有的多学科课程，在光通信和网络的新课程将在IGERT计划下开发，并正在开发现有的NSF CRCD赠款，现场培训国家的最先进的设备在UCF，非现场培训行业，非技术培训，包括业务，沟通/人际交往技能和道德。该IGERT计划的目标不仅是培养参与的博士。学生将成为工业和/或学术界的领导者，而且该项目也将成为在当今全球竞争和技术驱动的市场经济中培养科学家和工程师的国家模式。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育博士的挑战。科学家和工程师与多学科背景和技术，专业和个人技能所需的未来的职业需求。该计划旨在通过建立新的，创新的研究生教育和培训模式，促进研究生教育的文化变革，为超越传统学科界限的合作研究创造肥沃的环境。在该计划的第四年，该奖项将颁发给22个机构，这些机构的计划共同涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。这个特定奖项的知识焦点位于工程局;计算机和信息科学与工程;数学和物理科学;以及教育和人力资源。

The University of Central Florida will establish an IGERT program with a multidisciplinary research theme in Optical Communications and Networking to train 30 Ph.D. students over the next five years. This program is a joint effort of twenty scientists, engineers and educators from the Departments/Schools of Mathematics, Statistics, Optics, Physics, Material science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Education at UCF. Optical communications and networking is a particularly well-suited IGERT theme because the diverse multidisciplinary technologies that need to be developed to enable next-generation information infrastructure. Major research efforts are grouped in four areas: advanced components, transport, switching, and networking and network management. Each IGERT thesis project is designed to build upon expertise from at least two different groups in realizing an enhanced functionality that is greater than the sum of the parts, over and above what the two groups would pursue independently. The advising team of each IGERT student, consisting of two or more faculty members from different departments, an industrial advisor and a non-technical advisor, is designed to ensure the successful integration of education, research and training. Industry, the users of technology considered in this effort, will be involved at the onset of the thesis research for each student. The research framework is complemented by the existing multidisciplinary courses, new courses in optical communications and networking to be developed under this IGERT program and being developed under an existing NSF CRCD grant, on-site training on state-of-the-art equipment at UCF, off-site training in industry, and non-technical training including business, communication/ interpersonal skills and ethics. The objective of this IGERT program is not only to train the participating Ph.D. students to become leaders in industry and/or academia but also for this program to serve as a national model for training scientists and engineers in today's globally competitive and technology-driven market economy. 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 fourth year of the program, awards are being made to twenty-two 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; Computer and Information Science and Engineering; Mathematical and Physical Sciences; and Education and Human Resources.