MIRTHE Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Industry

MIRTHE工业博士后奖学金MIRTHE是NSF赞助的健康与环境中期技术工程研究中心，开展了一项充满活力的教育和推广计划，从K-12开始，在博士后水平达到高潮。在这里，我们提出了一个新的除了MIRTHE的博士后研究和培训计划，即MIRTHE工业博士后奖学金计划。一小群最近MIRTHE毕业生将被竞争性地选择进行为期一年的博士后研究现场与MIRTHE工业成员公司。研究项目与研究员密切相关，前MIRTHE研究和加强大学工业伙伴关系，这些伙伴关系来自联合工作以及由博士后研究员捆绑在一起的学术和工业导师小组。除了在工业界的全职工作，博士后研究员将被分配到普林斯顿大学的导师;他们将每年两次向整个MIRTHE社区报告他们的研究。这些奖学金是竞争性的，有严格的选拔程序，并紧密地融入MIRTHE的整体正式博士后指导计划。博士后研究员是通过普林斯顿大学以基本工资率任命的;东道国公司将提高研究员的工资，给公司？我们估计这至少相当于行业分担25%的成本。知识产权MIRTHE正在领导开发一个全新的痕量气体传感器系统平台，该平台提供高性能、高性价比和网络化的传感能力。这些传感器系统基于中红外量子级联激光光谱，并通过其紧凑性，自主性，联网能力和快速时间响应而脱颖而出。它们满足了单点传感器、城市传感器网络、遥感器和区域尺度上痕量化学传感的应用需求。在这样做的过程中，MIRTHE解决了在国家和全球范围内确保清洁，安全，可持续和健康的环境，清洁的空气呼吸和可获得的医疗保健的重要社会挑战。这里提出的MIRTHE博士后工业奖学金计划派遣五个或更多的高素质，竞争性选择的博士后研究员与MIRTHE行业成员在MIRTHE相关的研究项目现场工作。他们的工程卓越的高度将加强大学，行业合作，并将推进MIRTHE的使命和上述大胆的愿景。更广泛的影响MIRTHE成功地培养和毕业的多元化和全球竞争力的美国劳动力准备承担工程领导的21世纪世纪。自2006年以来，MIRTHE的博士后培训计划已经发展到包括9名目前在学术界，政府和工业界有职业抱负的博士后研究员。已经有三个人了？毕业了吗to long term长期employment就业inacademia学术界. MIRTHE在接触科学和工程领域历史上代表性不足的群体方面有着良好的记录，其研究人员和学生的多样性一直超过可比较的平均水平。这里提出的MIRTHE工业博士后研究员计划提供了一个杰出的机会，以增加规模和提高MIRTHE的博士后研究人员池的多样性。该计划将提供MIRTHE的毕业生额外的培训，技能，知识和见解，并将使他们在就业市场上更具竞争力，从而减轻我们的博士后研究人员的严重，该计划将吸引对工业职业感兴趣的博士后研究人员，并建立自己的公司。博士后研究员还将在MIRTHE的工业/从业者合作计划中形成学术界和工业界之间的关键联系，该计划开发具有成本效益，市场就绪，中红外传感技术的原型;这些技术为重要行业带来新的盈利产品线和新的收入来源。

MIRTHE Post-Doctoral Fellowship in IndustryMIRTHE, the NSF-sponsored Engineering Research Center for Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health andthe Environment, conducts a vibrant education and outreach program that starts at K-12 and culminatesat the post-doctoral level. Here, we propose a new addition to MIRTHE's post-doctoral research andtraining program, i.e. the MIRTHE Post-doctoral Fellowship in Industry program.A small group of recent MIRTHE graduates will be competitively selected to conduct year-long, postdoctoralresearch on-site with MIRTHE industry member companies. The research projects are closelylinked to the fellows,former MIRTHE research and strengthen the university industry partnerships arisingfrom the joint work and the group of academic and industrial mentors tied together by the post-docfellows. In addition to full time work in industry, the post-doctoral fellows will be assigned mentors atPrinceton University; they will report twice yearly on their research to the entire MIRTHE community. Thefellowships are competitive, with a strict selection process, and are tightly woven into MIRTHE's overallformal post-doctoral mentoring program.The post-doctoral fellows are appointed through Princeton University at the base salary rate; the hostingcompanies will raise the fellows, salary to the companies? rate and will fund the fellows researchexpenses; we estimate this to amount to at least 25% cost-sharing by industry.Intellectual meritMIRTHE is leading the development of an entirely new platform of trace gas sensor systems that providehigh-performance, cost-effective, and networked sensing capabilities. These sensor systems are basedon mid-infrared Quantum Cascade laser spectroscopy and excel through their compactness, autonomy,networking capability, and fast time response. They fulfill the application requirements of trace chemicalsensing on the individual point sensor, urban sensor network, remote sensor, and regional scale. In doingso, MIRTHE addresses the important societal challenges of securing a clean, safe, sustainable, andhealthy environment, clean air to breathe and accessible healthcare on the national and global scale.The here proposed MIRTHE Post-doctoral Fellowship in Industry program sends five or more highlyqualified, competitively selected post-doctoral fellows to work on-site with MIRTHE industry members onMIRTHE-related research projects. Their high degree of engineering excellence will strengthenuniversity,industry collaborations and will advance MIRTHE's mission and bold vision stated above.Broader impactsMIRTHE successfully trains and graduates a diverse and globally competitive U.S. workforce ready toassume engineering leadership for the 21st century. Since 2006, MIRTHE's post-doctoral training programhas grown to encompass 9 current post-doctoral fellows with career aspirations in academia,government, and industry. Three fellows have already ?graduated? to long-term employment inacademia. MIRTHE has a proven track record to reach out to groups historically underrepresented inscience and engineering, and its researcher and student diversity consistently exceeds comparablenational averages. The here proposed MIRTHE Post-doctoral Fellows in Industry program provides anoutstanding opportunity to increase the size and improve the diversity of MIRTHE's post-doctoralresearcher pool.The program will provide MIRTHE's graduates with additional training, skills, knowledge, and insights,and will make them more competitive in the job-market, hence allaying the gravest of our post-doctoralresearchers, concerns about their career opportunities in the current weak economy.The program will attract specifically post-doctoral researchers interested in a career in industry and instarting up their own company. The post-doctoral fellows will also form key connections betweenacademia and industry in MIRTHE's industrial/practitioner collaboration program, which developsprototypes of cost-effective, market-ready, mid-infrared sensing technologies; these technologies result innew profitable product lines and new revenue streams for important industry sectors.