IGERT: Sensor Science, Engineering, and Informatics

该传感器科学，工程和信息学（SSEI）IGERT计划将提供传感器系统领域的多学科博士培训，从新材料和传感机制的科学和工程到传感器数据的解释。 有效的传感器系统的设计和管理需要全面了解信息是如何收集，存储，集成，评估和传感系统内的通信，并在不同的应用环境中的决策者。 SSEI IGERT将三个研究重点领域编织在一起：（1）传感器材料和设备，（2）传感器系统和网络，以及（3）传感器信息学。该项目的智力价值包括旨在确保反馈回路的教育和研究活动，以便SSEI IGERT学员能够将新知识从传感器生成的数据转化为传感器系统和网络的进一步开发以及传感器材料和设备的进步，反之亦然。 该计划的创新部分包括：（1）开发和使用一个试验台原型，这将需要跨三个研究领域的跨学科互动;（2）在研究和培训中紧密结合传感环境的社会、法律的、伦理和经济方面，（3）扩大与从事传感器研究的公司和联邦实验室的关系，（4）国际合作，（5）与传感器科学和工程教育在初中、高中和本科层次的协同整合。 SSEI IGERT计划的更广泛影响是一批新的科学家和工程师，他们将在处理有助于传感系统的各种技术组件方面多才多艺，了解严重感知环境的法律的，社会和道德背景，并意识到必须在此类系统中保存，保护和促进人类价值。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，在所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划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促进研究生教育的文化变革。

This Sensor Science, Engineering and Informatics (SSEI) IGERT program will provide multidisciplinary doctoral training in the area of sensor systems ranging from the science and engineering of new materials and sensing mechanisms to the interpretation of sensor data. The design and management of effective sensor systems requires a holistic understanding of how information is collected, stored, integrated, evaluated, and communicated within sensing systems and to decision makers in diverse application contexts. The SSEI IGERT weaves together three research focus areas: (1) Sensor Materials and Devices, (2) Sensor Systems and Networks, and (3) Sensor Informatics. The intellectual merit of the project includes education and research activities that are designed to ensure a feedback loop so that SSEI IGERT trainees are able to transform new knowledge from sensor-generated data to further development of sensor systems and networks and advances in sensor materials and devices, and vice versa. Innovative components of the program include (1) development and use of a testbed prototype that will require interdisciplinary interaction across the three research areas; (2) a tight integration of the social, legal, ethical, and economic dimensions of sensing environments in both research and training, (3) expanded relationships with companies and federal laboratories engaged in sensor research, (4) international collaborations, and (5) synergistic integration with sensor science and engineering education at the middle, high school, and undergraduate level. The broader impacts of the SSEI IGERT program are a new breed of scientists and engineers who will be versatile in dealing with the diverse technical components that contribute to sensing systems, knowledgeable in the legal, social, and ethical contexts of heavily sensed environments, and aware of the human values that must be preserved, protected and promoted within such systems. 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.