NRT-IGE: Integrating Team Science into the STEM Graduate Training Experience

大型跨学科团队经常处于当今复杂科学和工程问题研究的核心。对许多科学家和工程师来说，团队合作是一项挑战，因为他们学习的大学文化承认并奖励个人成就。例如，博士学生的期末专题报告，即论文，必须代表学生本人的原创性贡献。同样，大学通过等级晋升个别教师，而不是团体。尽管基于团队的研究很重要，但大学历来很少为科学和工程研究生提供系统的准备，以帮助他们在涉及更大合作的职业生涯中取得成功。这个国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）在研究生教育（IGE）轨道创新奖给技术的格鲁吉亚研究所将通过开发材料，培养研究生团队工作，并通过衡量这些材料的有效性来解决这些挑战。该项目将采取一种新颖的方法来开发课程，借鉴来自医疗保健行业，航空和军事等广泛来源的团队培训的最佳实践。这些材料的适应，以满足研究生的需求将确保学生成为有效的团队成员和领导者谁可以在他们的职业生涯中推进科学和工程。该项目旨在确定研究生如何学习成为有效的团队成员和团队领导者。该项目将调查哪些教学材料和方法对学生发展团队合作能力最有效，哪些环境最适合学习和保留特定的可移植技能。该项目有三个目标：（1）开发团队培训的教学材料和协作流程;（2）实施这些教学材料;（3）评估教学材料的有效性以及在研究生阶段开发和实施团队培训的流程。实现这些目标将增加有关有效研究生教育的知识基础。该项目侧重于三个关键因素：能力、受众和环境。该项目研究的能力是可移植的，这意味着它们在许多不同的研究领域都很有用。这方面的例子包括关于团队精神的性质和价值的知识、沟通和冲突管理技能以及对多样性和包容性的态度。该项目的观众包括MS。和博士学生在广泛的STEM课程。为了最大限度地提高灵活性，该团队将开发小单元的课程材料，教师可以在不同的设置提供。材料将被开发和引入的设置包括现有的学术课程，短期（60-90分钟）或更长时间（半天，全天）的研讨会，以及学期的学术课程。NSF研究培训（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的，新的，潜在的变革性模型，用于STEM研究生教育培训。研究生教育创新轨道专门致力于试点，测试和评估新颖，创新和潜在的变革性研究生教育方法。

Large interdisciplinary teams are frequently at the core of research on today's complex science and engineering problems. Working in teams is challenging for many scientists and engineers because the culture of universities, where they studied, recognizes and rewards individual achievement. For example, a Ph.D. student's final project report, the dissertation, must represent the student's own original contribution. Likewise, universities promote individual faculty members, not groups, through the ranks. Despite the importance of team-based research, universities have historically provided little systematic preparation for science and engineering graduate students to help them succeed in careers involving greater collaboration. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award in the Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Track to the Georgia Institute of Technology will address these challenges by developing materials to train graduate students to work in teams and by measuring the effectiveness of these materials. The project will take a novel approach to curriculum development by drawing on best practices in team training from a wide range of sources such as the healthcare industry, aviation, and the military. Adaptation of these materials to meet the needs of graduate students will ensure that the students become effective team members and leaders who can advance science and engineering throughout their careers. This project seeks to determine how graduate students learn to be effective team members and team leaders. The project will investigate which instructional materials and approaches are most effective for students to develop teamwork competencies and which settings are most suitable for learning and retaining specific transportable skills. This project has three goals: (1) develop instructional materials and collaborative processes for team training; (2) implement these instructional materials; and (3) evaluate the effectiveness of instructional materials as well as the processes for developing and implementing team training at the graduate level. Achieving these goals will add to the knowledge base about effective graduate education. The project focuses on three key considerations: competencies, audiences, and settings. The competencies studied by this project are transportable, meaning they are useful in many different areas of research. Examples include knowledge about the nature and value of teamwork, skills in communication and conflict management, and attitudes about diversity and inclusiveness. The audience for the project includes M.S. and Ph.D. students across a wide range of STEM programs. To maximize flexibility, the team will develop curricular materials in small units that faculty can deliver in different settings. Settings where materials will be developed and introduced include existing academic courses, short (60-90 minute) or longer (half day, full day) workshops, and semester-long academic courses. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The Innovations in Graduate Education Track is dedicated solely to piloting, testing, and evaluating novel, innovative, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education.