Science Master's Program: Fueling Innovation in New Jersey Through Graduate Education

“这个奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案(公法111-5)资助的。”这个科学大师计划(SMP)奖项旨在发展几个明确的？绿色主题？科学集中，包括生物技术(特别是生物燃料)、可持续发展、城市环境分析和管理以及工业数学，分布在罗格斯大学位于新不伦瑞克纽瓦克和新泽西州卡姆登的所有三个校区。新学位课程的目标是培养下一代个人，让他们在科学密集型行业担任关键领导角色，并将研究转化为商业化。该项目将为新的专业科学硕士-S学位项目的两批学生招生、招生和提供学费奖学金。此外，该计划将招收和培训STEM学科(科学、技术、工程和数学)领域的有才华的美国学生，特别是来自代表性较低的人群，并为他们在对美国经济至关重要的新兴绿色技术行业获得高薪工作做好准备。最终，这一计划将推动新泽西州和美国的创新和经济增长。该学位包括科学集中与一套共同的商业？外加？课程。生意？再加上？课程包括金融和会计、管理、通信、市场营销和伦理学。学生将完成研究实习和综合顶峰课程，在该课程中，他们将学习如何评估、转化科学、工程和技术发现并将其商业化为新的经济企业。这一新的SMP模式将改善STEM与行业的联系，并增加STEM渠道中代表不足的少数族裔毕业生的数量。

"This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)."This Science Masters Program (SMP) award aims to develop several well-defined ?green-themed? science concentrations, including biotechnology (especially biofuels), sustainability, urban environmental analysis and management, and industrial mathematics across all three of the Rutgers campuses in Newark, New Brunswick, and Camden, NJ. The goal of the new degree program is to train the next generation of individuals to assume key leadership roles in science-intensive industries and to translate research into commercialization. This program will recruit, enroll, and provide tuition fellowships for two cohorts of students into the new professional science master?s degree program. Additionally, this program will recruit and train talented US students especially from underrepresented populations in STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), and prepare them to obtain high-paying jobs in emerging green-technology industries of critical importance to the economy of the U.S. Ultimately, this initiative will fuel innovation and economic growth in New Jersey and the U.S. The degree includes a science concentration combined with a common set of business ?plus? courses. The business ?plus? courses include finance and accounting, management, communications, marketing, and ethics. Students will complete a research internship as well as an integrated capstone course in which they will learn how to evaluate, convert, and commercialize science, engineering and technology discoveries into new economic ventures. This new SMP model will both improve the STEM to industry connection and increase the number of underrepresented minority graduates in the STEM pipeline.