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Cover all issues (with details) in solicitation
- Education plan
- Research plan
- Integration of Education and Research
- Professional Development
- Sustainability
- Evaluation
- Recruiting
- Dissemination
Jack Stankovic BP America Professor Director, Link Lab University - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Jack Stankovic BP America Professor Director, Link Lab University - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Jack Stankovic BP America Professor Director, Link Lab University of Virginia Cover all issues ( with details ) in solicitation Education plan Research plan Integration of Education and Research Professional Development
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UVA: Cyber Physical Systems
- We created the interdisciplinary structure FIRST (across 5
Depts.) and then applied for the NRT
- Value of this approach:
Shows buy-in
Faculty Students Administration
$5M and 8 faculty lines (a new Link Lab)
Shows previous research work Shows sustainability potential
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Give details
- Classes (inputs, content, outputs, when taught)
- How are they related to departments
- Related to teaching loads
- Who will be in the classes
Not only NRT students/leverage!
- Will it affect time to graduate
- Team teaching? – if so, credit
- KEY: Professional development (later)
SLIDE 5
Show why/how students lack this training
now!
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Demonstrate that you have thought through
the logistics and the content of the training
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Give details and why it needs new training
- UVA
Smart Health Smart Cities Autonomous Vehicles
UVA Example (multidisciplinary):
- Smart Health – safety critical
Need new formal method techniques that involve sensors (physical world), uncertainty, etc.
Engineering students don’t know formal methods CS students limited in sensing, signal processing, etc. NEW CLASS
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Don’t minimize the research aspects and
content
UVA proposal: Gave example projects that
illustrate the research content and how the research is helped by the traineeship education
- Challenges
- 3 example projects
- How education will improve research
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How does training integrate with the research What are the expected research outcomes UVA Example:
- Class on integrating SP, ML and FC as core material to
enable non-domain experts to come up to speed quickly and to see connections and how the cyber and physical interact And how this class enables more effective research on Smart Cities, Smart Health and Autonomous Systems
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Communications/writing/leadership/ … How will skills be guaranteed
- What is optional/required
How will skills be measured Not a one shot training Cohort Culture Industry involvement (advisory board)
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New degree New lab New culture How to engage faculty beyond the NRT
faculty
With Industry
- Internships
- Testbeds
- Advisory Board
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What will you measure
- Technical skills
- Research output/quality
- Professional development
Use Logic Model Formative evaluation to inform changes to
training components
External evaluator – member of leadership
team and many evaluation time points
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Underrepresented groups (some boilerplate)
- Short term
- Long term
REUs Summer Programs
UVA University Commitment
- UG – doubled enrollment at UG level
Various techniques
- Move this to grad program
- New Dean’s scholar program ($8.5M)
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Work with Engineering Center for Diversity Targeted outreach to HBCUs (with specific
schools named)
REU site Embraced holistic admissions Mentoring and Retention At UVA: “the 4 year graduation rate for Black
(2 times the national average) and Hispanic students (3 times the national average)”
SLIDE 15
Dissemination of curricula developments and
the rationale – some boilerplate
Established partnership with another Univ. for
excellence in CPS
- Can share educational and research materials
- How/when etc. – give details
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Broader Impact Organization and Management
- Include an ORG chart