IGERT: Graduate Education Program in Computational Science and Engineering with Emphasis on Multiscale Problems in Fluids and Materials

这个IGERT计划的结构是提供一个独特的博士课程，在计算科学与工程（CSE）的跨学科研究和教育。我们的愿景是教育那些在跨学科团队中工作是常态的学生，他们有能力从其他学科获得知识、思维方式和观点。提议的IGERT博士体验不同于传统学科，可能是美国CSE项目中独一无二的。IGERT的博士论文将由共同监督，具有特定学科方向的学生将与IGERT其他方向的学生共享资源、知识和方法。虽然典型的IGERT博士论文仍然将在一个学科上有很强的重点，但它将包含与所研究的一般问题领域相关的其他学科的独立创造性工作的主要元素。IGERT的学生和教师将在三个焦点小组中一起工作：微尺度工程，复杂流体和计算材料科学，以解决广泛的重要和及时的问题，这些问题深深依赖于从小尺度到大尺度的信息集成。这些多尺度问题需要在工程、数学和计算科学方面打下坚实的基础。课程确保在一个领域的深度和显著暴露在一个或多个辅助领域的高水平课程。它包括原子尺度计算机模拟和高性能计算的新课程，以专门解决焦点小组问题的多尺度性质及其计算要求。需要实习来扩大和加强跨学科的研究经验，并且需要一系列的讲习班和研讨会将使IGERT的学生有机会接触到职业发展和道德的重要方面。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技术，专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，以满足未来职业需求。该计划旨在通过建立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。在该计划的第五年，奖项将颁发给21个机构，这些机构的项目共同跨越了NSF支持的科学和工程领域。

This IGERT program is structured to provide a unique Ph.D. program in interdisciplinary research and education in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE). The vision is to educate students for whom working in interdisciplinary teams is the norm, and who have the ability to acquire knowledge, ways of thinking, and perspectives from other disciplines. The proposed IGERT PhD experience is different from one in a traditional discipline, and possibly unique among CSE programs in the USA. The IGERT PhD theses will be jointly supervised, and those students with a particular disciplinary orientation will share resources, knowledge, and approaches with IGERT students with other orientations. While a typical IGERT PhD thesis will still have a strong focus in a discipline, it will contain major elements of independent creative work in other disciplines relevant to the general problem area under study. IGERT students and faculty will work together in three Focus Groups: Microscale Engineering, Complex Fluids, and Computational Materials Science, to solve a wide range of important and timely problems that depend deeply on integration of information from the smaller scales to the larger scales. These multiscale problems require a strong foundation in both engineering and the mathematical and computational sciences. The curriculum ensures depth in one area and a significant exposure to high level courses in one or more ancillary areas. It includes new courses in atomic-scale computer simulation, and computing for high performance, to specifically address the multiscale nature of the Focus Group problems and their computational requirements. An internship is required to broaden and reinforce the interdisciplinary research experience, and a required series of workshops and seminars will give IGERT students a significant exposure to important aspects of career development and ethics.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. 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 innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the fifth year of the program, awards are being made to twenty-one institutions for programs that collectively span the areas of science and engineering supported by NSF.