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UCLA's
Brain Research Institute has joined with the Henry
Samueli School
of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) to
create a major educational
program, the UCLA NeuroEngineering Training (NET)
Program. The NET Program is a joint endeavor of the Interdepartmental
Ph.D. Program for Neuroscience and the Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D. Program in SEAS, with the active involvement of
scientists from JPL. This cooperative effort trains students
to work at the interface between engineering and neuroscience.
The program was initially supported by a grant from the National
Science Foundation IGERT
(Integrative Graduate Education and Training) Program; a
training grant submission to NIH is currently being proposed.
The objectives of the NET Program are
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To
enable students with a background in biological science
to develop and execute projects that make use of state-of-the-art
technology, including microelectromechanical systems
(MEMS), signal processing, and photonics;
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enable students with a background in engineering to
develop and execute projects that address problems that
have a neuroscientific base, including locomotion and
pattern generation, central control of movement, and
the processing of sensory information; and
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To
enable all trainees to develop the capacity for the
multidisciplinary teamwork, in intellectually and socially
diverse settings, that will be necessary for new scientific
insights and dramatic technological progress in the
21st century.
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NET Ph.D. students take a curriculum designed to encourage
cross-fertilization of the two fields. Our goal is for
neuroscientists and engineers to speak each others'
language and move comfortably among the intellectual
domains of the two fields.
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