Bridge to the Future for GIs: Crucial Education for Operation Rebuild America

佐治亚理工学院建议通过利用这笔规划拨款创建一个创新的、跨学科的研究生项目，为后9-11退伍军人培养领导能力，以在重建美国S基础设施的国家倡议中发挥领导作用，以应对国家对基础设施建设的需求、美国退伍军人的回归以及美国训练有素的工程师的缺乏。智力优势：为了创建创新的跨学科研究生课程，为后9/11退伍军人在重建美国基础设施方面的领导能力做好准备，佐治亚理工学院(GT)建议首先启动一项广泛的调查，了解后9/11退伍军人对研究生工程教育的需求和兴趣，以及获得研究生学位后可能向他们开放的职业领导职位。这些数据将广泛提供给所有院校，以便它们可以为返回的美国军人的涌入做好计划。GT然后建议开发一个创新的跨学科博士学位，利用9/11事件后回归的美国大兵在规划、实施和领导团队方面的技能和军事经验，为他们担任文职职业领导职位做好准备，按照华盛顿新政府的提议，重建和重建美国的道路、学校、医疗、治理、能源、IT和公用事业系统等基础设施。规划补助金将用于以下五个领域：1)评估后9/11法案通过后有兴趣在全国和当地攻读工程学研究生学位的合资格个人的人数；2)确定和制定最适合他们的兴趣和国家基础设施领导需要的课程；3)评估和了解帮助这些人成功完成研究生工作所需的课程、课程和其他支持服务的类型；4)评估9/11事件后拥有工程学博士学位的美国军人的职业机会和就业机会；以及5)发展与组织的关系，这些组织对维持该计划以及职业机会和安置至关重要。更广泛的影响：佐治亚理工学院将开发的跨学科博士学位将作为一个模式，可以扩大和修改，以便在其他机构实施。由于佐治亚理工大学在军事和工程方面的历史，它是攻读博士学位的合乎逻辑的地方。佐治亚理工学院是一所主要的研究型大学，在工程学研究生方面排名第四，是美国最大的工程学生产商，包括博士毕业生。佐治亚理工学院还与美国武装部队保持着长期而成功的关系；艾米、海军和空军后备部队也为亚特兰大的地铁机构服务，包括佐治亚州立大学、埃默里、莫尔豪斯、斯佩尔曼和阿格尼斯·斯科特，他们向乔治亚州立大学的伊万·艾伦学院汇报工作。其他因素，如该州有大量军事基地，允许州外现役人员支付本州学费的法律，活跃的退伍军人群体，以及关于重返GT研究生工作的相对较多的后备军官人数和目前从格鲁吉亚激活的大量预备役人员的初步数据表明，拟议的跨学科研究生方案将有足够的目标受众。该计划的重点是重建美国的基础设施，将满足国家的关键需求，同时为9/11事件后的美国军人提供在基础设施重建中担任领导职位所需的教育。这一新的学位课程为应对美国S基础设施老化挑战的研究提供了博士教育补充。

Georgia Tech proposes to respond to the national needs of building infrastructure, returning GIs, and dearth of U.S. trained engineers by using this planning grant to create an innovate, interdisciplinary graduate program to prepare Post-9-11 veterans for leadership in the national initiative to rebuild America?s infrastructure. Intellectual Merit: In order to create the innovative, interdisciplinary graduate program to prepare the Post-9/11 veterans for leadership in rebuilding the U.S. Infrastructure, Georgia Tech (GT) proposes first to initiate an extensive survey about the needs and interest of Post-9/11 GIs in graduate engineering educations and the career leadership positions likely to be open to them after receiving graduate degrees. These data would be made widely available to all institutions so that they could plan for the influx of returning GIs. GT then proposes to develop an innovative model interdisciplinary PhD that capitalizes on the skills and military experience in planning, implementation, and leading teams of Post-9/11 returning GIs, to prepare them for civilian occupational leadership positions to rebuild and recreate the U.S. infrastructure of roads, schools, health, governance, energy, IT and utility systems, as proposed by the new administration in Washington. The planning grant would be used in the following five areas: 1) to assess the size of the population of Post-9/11 Bill eligible individuals potentially interested in pursuing graduate degrees in engineering nationally and locally; 2) to determine and develop the curriculum that would be most appropriate for both their interests and the national infrastructure leadership needs; 3) to assess and understand the types of curricular, con-curricular and other support services needed to help these individuals be successful in pursing graduate work; 4) to assess the career opportunities and placement available to Post-9/11 GIs with engineering PhDs; and 5) to develop relationships with the organizations vital for sustaining the program and for career opportunities and placement. Broader Impact: The interdisciplinary PhD to be developed by Georgia Tech would serve as a model that could be scaled and modified for implementation at other institutions. Because of its history with both the military and engineering, Georgia Tech is a logical place to implement a PhD. A major research university, ranked number four in graduate engineering, Georgia Tech is the largest producer of engineering, including PhD graduates, in the United States. Georgia Tech also has a long and successful relationship with the U.S. Armed Forces; Amy, Navy, and Air Force ROTC unites that also serve metro Atlanta institutions, including Georgia State University, Emory, Morehouse, Spelman, and Agnes Scott, report to the Ivan Allen College at GT. Other factors, such as the large number of military bases in the state, a law allowing out-of-state active duty persons to pay in-state tuition, an active group of military alumni, and preliminary data on the relatively large number of ROTC officers who return to graduate work at GT and the large number of reservists currently activated from Georgia suggest that the proposed interdisciplinary graduate program would have a sufficient target audience. The focus of the program on recreating the U.S. infrastructure would fill a critical national need, while providing the Post-9/11 GIs with education needed to assume leadership positions in infrastructure rebuilding. This new degree program provides the PhD educational complement to the research addressing the challenges of American?s aging infrastructure.