IGERT: Integrative Nanoscience and Microsystems

要想发挥作用，纳米材料必须集成到与外部世界相互作用的微尺度系统中。为了实现这一效用，该IGERT计划专注于综合纳米科学和微系统，这些系统利用和扩展纳米级的独特属性到微观/宏观级的材料和系统。这一统一的主题贯穿整个研究生教育和研究活动，建立在新墨西哥大学现有的材料合成、质疑平台和功能系统方面独特的一套能力和强大的现有广度。IGERT涉及九个部门，他们的共同愿景是在一个技术和种族多样性丰富的地理区域建立纳米科学研究生教育项目，在科学研究、教育项目开发、招聘和保留方面实现进步目标。创新方面包括种族多元化的多学科文化；强调基于多学科团队学习的博士学位课程开发；纳米科学伦理课程和社会影响研究；以及对纳米科学的综合方法。该IGERT将受益于整个新墨西哥州大学系统和邻近的国家实验室中纳米技术研究合作和基础设施项目的日益增长的势头，在这些实验室中，纳米科学研究生教育项目是缺失的组成部分。更广泛的影响包括可持续的教育和培训核心，提高社区对纳米科学及其就业机会的认识，少数群体学生更多和持续地参与纳米科学，以满足国家和地方对跨学科劳动力的需求。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在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。

To be useful, nanoscale materials must be integrated into microscale systems that interact with the outside world. To realize this utility, this IGERT program focuses on integrative nanoscience and microsystems that exploit and extend the unique properties of the nanoscale to micro/macroscale materials and systems. This unifying theme, maintained throughout the integrated graduate education and research activities, builds upon unique set of capabilities and strong existing breadth in materials synthesis, interrogative platforms and functional systems that exist at the University of New Mexico. This IGERT involves nine departments with a collective vision of establishing a nanoscience graduate education program in a geographical region of rich technical and ethnic diversity with progressive goals in scientific research, educational program development, recruiting and retention. Innovative aspects include an ethnically diverse, multi-disciplinary culture; Ph.D. degree program development that emphasizes multi-disciplinary team-based learning; nanoscience ethics coursework and social implication research; and an integrated approach to nanoscience. This IGERT will benefit from the growing momentum of nanotechnology research collaborations and infrastructure programs throughout New Mexico's University system and the neighboring national laboratories where a nanoscience graduate educational program is the missing component. The broader impacts include a sustainable core of education and training, increased community awareness of nanoscience and its career opportunities, an increased and sustained involvement of minority students in nanoscience to address the national and local needs for an interdisciplinary workforce. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, 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.