UCLA IGERT - Materials Creation Training Program (MCTP)

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）更新奖支持加州大学洛杉矶分校材料创造培训计划（MCTP）的进一步发展。MCTP使受训者能够掌握特定的学科，同时沉浸在未来职业的协作科学文化中，正如国家纳米技术倡议所强调的那样。在MCTP的第二年和第三年的支持下，学生将接受设计、合成和表征新分子和组件的各个方面的培训，以及基于这些材料（包括生物传感器和生物材料）的设备的制造、表征和营销。MCTP招收来自加州大学洛杉矶分校化学与生物化学、物理、化学、电气、机械、航空航天和材料科学工程系的研究生和教师。受训者除了接受学科研究生培训和研究外，还在跨学科实验室、课堂和研讨会中接受培训。该计划的主要组成部分包括：来自互补学科的联合顾问；在公司、政府实验室或国外的外部实习；参加年度专题讨论会，并接受负责任的研究行为培训。为了使该计划制度化，MCTP课程将成为新的学术辅修课程和纳米科学和纳米技术新的跨部门博士课程的核心。加州纳米系统研究所（CNSI）将分阶段支持MCTP奖学金和这些学术项目的管理。加强学员多样性和国际研究经验的新项目包括与加州大学洛杉矶分校研究生教育和教授联盟的合作项目，以及与加州州立大学洛杉矶分校（CSULA）合作的新的MCTP硕士研究员桥梁项目，以加强CSULA硕士学位学生的培训，并增加未被充分代表的学生参加STEM博士课程的人数。MCTP将继续其与CNSI和加州大学洛杉矶分校教育研究生院X中心的K-12教育和推广合作伙伴关系，通过该中心，MCTP受训者将与洛杉矶联合学区服务不足的学校的教师和高中生一起工作，提供现代技术、设备和材料的实践经验。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，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。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) renewal award supports the further development of the UCLA Materials Creation Training Program (MCTP). The MCTP enables trainees to master a specific discipline, while being immersed in the collaborative scientific cultures characteristic of careers of the future, as emphasized in the National Nanotechnology Initiative. Supported by the MCTP in their second and third years, students are trained in all aspects of the design, synthesis, and characterization of novel molecules and assemblies, and in the fabrication, characterization and marketing of devices based on these materials, including biosensors and biomaterials. The MCTP engages graduate students and faculty from Chemistry & Biochemistry, Physics, and the Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical and Aerospace, and Materials Science Engineering departments at UCLA. The trainees experience training in cross-disciplinary laboratories, classes and seminars in addition to their disciplinary graduate training and research. Key components of the program include: a co-advisor from a complementary discipline; an external internship at a company, government lab or abroad; participation in annual symposia, and training in the responsible conduct of research. To institutionalize the program, the MCTP courses will serve as the nucleus of new academic minors and a new interdepartmental PhD program in NanoScience and NanoTechnology. The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) will phase in support for MCTP fellowships and administration of these academic programs. New programs to enhance diversity and international research experiences of the trainees include a collaborative program with the UCLA Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, and a new MCTP Master Fellows Bridge Program in partnership with Cal State Los Angeles (CSULA) to enhance the training of Master's degree students at CSULA and increase the number of underrepresented students enrolling in STEM doctoral programs. The MCTP will continue its K-12 education and outreach partnership with the CNSI and Center X in the UCLA Graduate School of Education, through which the MCTP trainees work with teachers and high school students at underserved schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, providing hands-on experience with modern techniques, devices and materials. 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.