NRT: Transformative Research in Urban Sustainability Training (T-RUST)

工业格局的变化可能会在城市环境中带来独特的社会经济挑战。例如，基础设施老化和制造业活动下降可能会给城市留下废弃的工业场地、污染的环境和不断下降的人口。转向以技术为基础的经济，拥有更专注于STEM的劳动力，可能是可持续城市的一种解决方案。这项授予韦恩州立大学的国家科学基金会研究培训奖将培养硕士研究生和博士生，让他们与社区、企业、行业、科学家和政策制定者合作，应对后工业化城市环境中面临的挑战，并为他们担任公共、私人和学术领导职位做好准备。本次培训将采取融合科学、工程、政策、经济学和传播学的跨学科方法。总之，该计划将为122名学生提供独特而全面的培训和教育机会，其中包括15名美国国家科学基金会资助的实习生、7名额外的研究生和100名本科生，他们将接受培训，以满足国家城市对可持续未来城市的需求。受训人员将利用跨学科系统方法获得独特的技术和专业培训。教育、研究和实践将通过与创业型技术企业和基于社区的项目的合作伙伴关系跨学科整合，这些项目正在城市地区的改造中进行创新。这项研究将以三个相辅相成的焦点为特色：城市生态系统；城市重建和蓝色经济；以及可持续的城市水利基础设施。学员将学习如何应用系统分析工具来评估自然和工程城市环境系统，同时评估和交流与仅靠物理科学无法解决的特别具有挑战性的环境问题有关的政策和管理选择。其目标是超越狭隘专业化的限制，转而培养能够解决当今复杂问题的受过全面培训的跨学科科学家/工程师。第二个目标是增加在STEM研究中代表性不足的少数群体，并让他们为公共、私人和学术领导职位做好准备，在那里他们可以有效地解决城市可持续发展系统的复杂问题。为了支持这些目标，该计划将包括与社区环境需求和劳动力市场需求相一致的跨学科能力课程，并与以下内容相结合：双头衔博士学位；结合课程工作的学科、跨学科和跨机构准备；基于社区项目的学习和服务；研讨会/座谈；视频纪录片；以及实习。实习将与外部咨询小组一起确定，以确保它们对具有科学、工程、社会正义、政治和经济维度的特定环境问题做出反应。NSF研究培训(NRT)计划旨在鼓励为STEM研究生教育培训开发和实施大胆的、具有潜在变革性的新模式。Traineesship Track致力于通过创新的、基于证据的、与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求保持一致的综合培训模式，在高度优先的跨学科研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。

Changing industrial landscapes can lead to unique socioeconomic challenges in an urban environment. For example, aging infrastructure and a decline in manufacturing activity can leave cities with abandoned industrial sites, polluted environments and declining populations. A shift to a technology-based economy with a more STEM-focused workforce may be one solution for sustainable cities. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship award to Wayne State University will train graduate master's and doctoral students to work with communities, businesses, industries, scientists, and policy makers to address challenges faced in postindustrial urban settings and prepare them for public, private, and academic leadership positions. This traineeship will take an interdisciplinary approach integrating science, engineering, policy, economics and communication. Altogether, this program will provide a unique and comprehensive training and educational opportunity for one hundred twenty-two (122) students, including fifteen (15) NSF-funded trainees, seven (7) additional graduate students, and 100 undergraduate students, who will have the training to solve national urban needs of sustainable future cities. Trainees will gain unique technical and professional training using an interdisciplinary systems approach. Education, research and practice will be integrated across disciplines through partnerships with entrepreneurial technology business and community based programs that are innovating in the reinvention of urban areas. The research will feature three complementary concentrations: Urban Ecological Systems; Urban Redevelopment and the Blue Economy; and Sustainable Urban Water Infrastructure. Trainees will learn how to apply systems analysis tools to evaluate natural and engineered urban environmental systems while evaluating and communicating policy and management options related to particularly challenging environmental problems that the physical sciences alone cannot resolve. The goal is to move beyond the constraints of narrow specialization and instead prepare holistically trained, interdisciplinary scientists/engineers who can solve today's complex problems. A second goal is to increase underrepresented minorities in STEM research and prepare them for public, private, and academic leadership positions where they can effectively address the complex issues of urban sustainability systems. In support of these goals, the program will include an interdisciplinary competency-based curriculum aligned with community environmental needs and labor market demands, integrated with: a dual-title doctoral degree; disciplinary, interdisciplinary and inter-institutional preparation that melds coursework; community project-based learning and service; seminar/colloquia; video documentaries; and internships. Internships will be identified with an External Advisory Panel to ensure they are responsive to specific environmental issues that have science, engineering, social justice, political, and economic dimensions.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 Traineeship Track is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary research areas, through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.