IGERT: Integrative Training in Health-Assistive Smart Environments

华盛顿州立大学的这一综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）项目支持多学科博士培训项目的发展，重点是设计和研究有助于健康的智能环境。这个IGERT将提供计算机科学、电气工程、机械工程、心理学、社会学和卫生保健等互补学科的综合培训，培养能够设计智能环境技术并利用它们研究老龄化和健康干预措施发展的科学家。该计划的教师将在该领域开发协作和持续的跨学科研究机会，提供结合理论和实践学习经验的新的跨学科课程，并通过团队解决问题来培养领导和合作技能。学生将通过实习获得实际经验，并通过生活在校园智能环境中了解用户需求。这个IGERT项目将与本科生项目的校园研究经验合作，加强来自代表性不足群体的学生的参与。IGERT的参与者将进行研究，以确定技术是否可以自动监测和分析人类的健康和行为，是否可以模拟人类的行为和活动，是否可以增强人类的身体和认知能力，以及这些技术是否可以被社会所接受。该方案的目的是为接受多种互补学科培训的一代劳动力做出贡献，并将为健康和科学研究的新途径打开大门。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) project at Washington State University supports the development of a multi-disciplinary doctoral training program focused on designing and studying health-assistive smart environments. This IGERT will provide integrated training in the complementary disciplines of computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, psychology, sociology, and health care to prepare scientists who can design smart environment techniques and use them to study aging and the development of health interventions. The faculty of the program will develop collaborative and sustaining interdisciplinary research opportunities in this area, provide new interdisciplinary classes that combine theoretical and practical learning experiences, and build leadership and cooperation skills through team problem-solving. Students will obtain real-world experience through internships and will understand user needs by living in on-campus smart environments. This IGERT program will partner with on-campus Research Experiences for Undergraduates programs, enhancing participation by students from underrepresented groups. IGERT participants will conduct research to determine whether technology can automatically monitor and analyze human health and behavior, whether it can simulate human behavior and activities, whether it can enhance human physical and cognitive abilities, and whether these technologies can be accepted by society. This program is intended to make a contribution to a generation of a workforce that is trained in multiple, complementary disciplines and that will open the door to new avenues of health and science research. 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.