Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: INnovative Training Enabled by a Research Software Engineering Community of Trainers (INTERSECT)

软件构成了当前许多科学和工程领域研究的支柱。现代研究软件项目所需的软件技能的广度和复杂性正以前所未有的速度增长。尽管如此，还是有数量惊人的软件开发人员没有接受过足够的软件开发培训。因此，对于开发将推动未来关键研究发现的软件的研究人员来说，在其职业生涯的多个阶段获得软件工程培训是必要的，这不仅使他们更富有成效，而且使他们的软件更健壮、可靠和可持续。这个项目，由培训人员的研究软件工程社区（INTERSECT）支持的创新培训，为已经拥有中级或高级知识水平的研究软件开发人员提供软件开发和工程实践方面的培训。为了实现这一目标，INTERSECT提供专家主导的培训课程和研讨会，以帮助建立在研究软件开发最佳实践方面受过培训的计算研究人员的管道。该项目服务于国家利益和NSF的使命，即通过培养一批在研究软件工程最佳实践方面受过培训的工作人员来促进科学进步，并解决目前研究软件开发人员在培训和教育方面的空白。INTERSECT项目通过以下方式为从事软件开发的研究人员提供研究软件工程实践方面的培训：(1)让实践的研究软件工程师（rse）参与研讨会，以策划、开发和改进培训材料；(2)使用有经验的研究软件工程师指导针对该材料的培训课程。INTERSECT集合了有经验的RSE，他们来自全国各地不断增长的RSE社区，有兴趣成为讲师，以收集有关他们的能力、知识和专业知识的信息。除了开发材料外，INTERSECT还将讲习班和培训课程中使用的材料整理到现有框架中。这种管理提供了一个开源平台，允许rse持续参与培训材料，并帮助协调整个rse培训师社区的工作。为了支持材料的生成和管理，INTERSECT赞助了多个rse培训师工作坊。这些研讨会将来自全国各地的实践rse（也是讲师）联系在一起，既利用了不同机构中存在的知识多样性，又建立和加强了这一日益重要的网络基础设施专业人员群体的国家社区。通过促进这个社区的发展，INTERSECT将通过增加获得同伴支持、资源和知识共享以及社区成员的网络机会，对研究软件产生广泛而持久的影响。通过提供中级和高级水平的培训活动和RSE研讨会，INTERSECT将帮助培养成熟的研究软件开发人员，提高对RSE职业道路的认识，并加强新兴的RSE国家社区。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Software forms the backbone of much current research in a variety of scientific and engineering domains. The breadth and sophistication of software skills required for modern research software projects is increasing at an unprecedented pace. Despite this fact, an alarming number of researchers who develop software do not have adequate training in software development. Therefore, it is imperative for researchers who develop the software that will drive tomorrow’s critical research discoveries to have access to software engineering training at multiple stages of their career, to not only make them more productive, but also to make their software more robust, reliable, and sustainable. This project, INnovative Training Enabled by a Research Software Engineering Community of Trainers (INTERSECT), provides training on software development and engineering practices to research software developers who already possess an intermediate or advanced level of knowledge. To achieve this goal, INTERSECT provides expert-led training courses and workshops to help build the pipeline of computational researchers trained in best practices for research software development. This project serves the national interest and NSF's mission of promoting the progress of science by preparing a workforce who are trained in research software engineering best practices and addresses a gap in the current training and education available to research software developers.The INTERSECT project provides training in research software engineering practices for researchers who are engaged in software development by (1) involving practicing Research Software Engineers (RSEs) in workshops to curate, develop, and refine training material and (2) using experienced RSEs to conduct training courses focused on that material. INTERSECT assembles experienced RSEs from the growing RSE community across the country who are interested in being instructors, to gather information about their capabilities, knowledge, and expertise. In addition to developing materials, INTERSECT is curating the materials used in the workshops and training sessions into existing frameworks. This curation provides an open-source platform that allows RSEs to have ongoing engagement with the training material and helps coordinate efforts across the RSE-trainer community. To support the generation and curation of materials, INTERSECT sponsors multiple RSE-trainer workshops. These workshops connect practicing RSEs, who are also instructors, from across the country to both leverage the diversity of knowledge present in different institutions and to build and strengthen a national community of this increasingly important group of Cyberinfrastructure Professionals. By contributing to the growth of this community, INTERSECT will have a broad and long lasting impact on research software through increased access to peer support, resource and knowledge sharing, and networking opportunities for community members. By providing intermediate and advanced level training events and RSE workshops, INTERSECT will help to cultivate sophisticated Research Software Developers, bring awareness to the RSE career path, and strengthen the nascent national community of RSEs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.