IGERT: On A Virtual Tribology System: Future Engineers and Future Powertrain Virtualization Technology

这一IGERT奖项支持建立一个多学科研究生培训计划，为未来的动力总成开发虚拟摩擦学系统提供教育和研究，动力总成是汽车和飞机的动力输送系统。目前动力总成摩擦学系统的开发是耗时的，需要整合新材料、发动机技术、试错、实验室实验和广泛的现场测试。我们的愿景是通过先进的计算机建模来模拟关键机械部件之间的界面交互作用，通过开发虚拟动力总成来缩短开发时间。这种技术的发展需要经过跨学科培训的新工程师和科学家。传统的基于一个导师和一个主题的工程学博士培养模式在这种新的模式下不能很好地发挥作用。培养在多学科环境中接受教育的博士代表了IGERT项目的教育重点。由于多尺度建模和多学科研究的需要，要求创建多学科学习/研究环境、电子教育、产业合作、国际推广和教师再教育的积极教育计划将是当前计划不可或缺的一部分。这个项目是化学、化学工程、土木工程、计算机工程、材料科学和机械工程以及物理的教职员工共同努力的结果。随着虚拟化技术的成功发展，人们希望培养出新一代的工程师和科学家，他们拥有强大的技术技能，精通多学科协作和复杂系统的计算机模拟工作。IGERT是一个NSF范围的计划，旨在应对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，催化研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第四年，22个机构被授予奖项，这些机构的项目共同涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。这一具体奖项的智力焦点位于工程学、计算机和信息科学与工程学、数学和物理科学以及教育和人力资源部。

This IGERT award supports the establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research in the development of a virtual tribology system for future powertrains, which are the power-delivery systems of automobiles and aircraft. The current development of a powertrain tribological system is time-consuming, requiring integration of new materials, engine technologies, trial-and-error, laboratory experimentation and extensive field-testing. The vision is to shorten the development time by developing a virtual powertrain through advanced computer modeling that simulates the interfacial interactions among critical machine elements. The development of such technology requires new engineers and scientists with cross-disciplinary training. The traditional engineering Ph.D. training model based on one advisor and a single topic does not work well in this new paradigm. Creating Ph.D.s who are educated in a multidisciplinary environment represents the educational focus of this IGERT program. Because of the need for multiscale modeling and multidisciplinary research, an aggressive education plan requiring the creation of a multidisciplinary learning/research environment, electronic education, industrial collaboration, international outreach and faculty re-education will be an integral part of the current program. This program is a joint effort among faculty members in chemistry, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, materials science and mechanical engineering, as well as physics. With the successful development of virtualization technology, it is hoped to educate a new generation of engineers and scientists who have strong technical skill and are proficient in multidisciplinary collaboration and in working with computer simulations of complex systems.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.