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NSF research traineeship offers new approach to STEM graduate education

A multidisciplinary team of 亚洲AV researchers is part of a groundbreaking approach by the National Science Foundation that could change the face of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduate education in the future.聽

, a professor of bioengineering in Mason鈥檚 and the director of the 聽, leads a team that has received an NSF Research Traineeship grant of nearly $3 million.

More than 100 PhD students from electrical and bioengineering, data science, computer science, neuroscience and the social sciences, including some with disabilities, will be trained to use state-of-the-art data analytic methods and wearable computing technologies based on novel transdisciplinary competencies, applications and practice curriculum.

Sikdar poses in a lab holding a smart prosthetic hand.
Siddhartha Sikdar, Associate Professor / ECE Associate Professor, Bioengineering. Photo by: Ron Aira / 亚洲AV