IGERT: Research and Innovation in Nanoscale Device Development

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持纳米技术在马萨诸塞州阿默斯特大学的跨学科博士培训。 研究和教育活动跨越六个科学和工程部门，使用一种结构，将基础科学的进步与创新和技术开发的补充课程和实践经验联系起来。 该计划的智力价值和研究重点是通过新颖的自下而上的处理方案（包括自组装）与传统的自上而下的方法的无缝集成，对纳米级器件的设计，原型设计和市场导向的开发。 博士培训围绕三个相关的研究方向：纳米材料和工艺;电子应用;生物医学和环境应用。具体而言，IGERT学生进行嵌段共聚物，先进光刻，新型沉积和金属化技术的定向自组装研究，以及它们在纳米电子器件，高密度数据存储，生物传感器和治疗中的应用。 除了多学科的技术，专业和产品开发培训，学生团队培训年度技术挑战项目，开发他们的能力，设计和原型技术和商业上可行的设备使用纳米技术。这些项目包括位于美国和国外的研发设施和制造中心的外部研究经验。这些项目的合作者和顾问包括TIAX和朗讯技术的贝尔实验室。 其他活动侧重于道德操守、领导力和沟通。 该计划的更广泛的影响包括发展科学家和工程师，他们在学科边界工作舒适，拥有纳米科学和工程的全面掌握，并有能力将基础科学的进步转化为可以商业化的功能材料和设备，以满足新兴的技术和社会需求。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 Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports interdisciplinary doctoral training in nanotechnology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The research and education activities span six science and engineering departments using a structure that ties advances in fundamental science to complementary coursework and practical experience in innovation and technology development. The program's intellectual merit and research emphasis is on the design, prototyping and market-oriented development of nanoscale devices through seamless integration of novel bottom-up processing schemes, including self-assembly, with conventional top-down approaches. Doctoral training is centered around three related research thrusts: nanoscale materials and processes; electronic applications; and biomedical and environmental applications. Specifically, IGERT students conduct research on the directed self-assembly of block copolymers, advanced lithography, novel deposition and metallization techniques, and their implementation in nanoelectronic devices, high-density data storage, biosensors and therapeutics. In addition to multidisciplinary technical, professional and product development training, the students team-train on annual Technical Challenge Projects that develop their ability to design and prototype technically and commercially feasible devices using nanotechnology. These projects include external research experiences at R&D facilities and fabrication centers located in the U.S. and abroad. Collaborators and advisors for the projects include TIAX and Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories. Additional activities focus on ethics, leadership and communication. The program's broader impacts include developing scientists and engineers that are comfortable working at disciplinary boundaries, possess a well-rounded mastery of nanoscience and engineering and have the ability to transform advances in basic science to functional materials and devices that can be commercialized to meet emerging technological and societal needs. 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.