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12 Broadening the Scientific Ph.D.: The Princeton Experience
12 Broadening the Scientific Ph.D.: The Princeton Experience
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We also fail society, which needs to have trained scientists participating effectively in the management of public affairs and private concerns. Mindful of these issues, an experiment in broadening the doctoral education of scientists and engineers was undertaken in spring 1997 at Princeton University under the leadership of Robert Socolow of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, and Thomas Spiro of the Chemistry Department.
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in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and write a policy research paper. The courses qualify the students for the Graduate Certificate in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School.
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In others, the explicit or implicit message is that such programs are for second-rate students who are not able to pursue a career in research or academia. Practically all the students enrolled in the PET-STEP program at Princeton have come from research groups where the professor takes an unusually wide view of graduate education.
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To meet the requirements of this certificate, the student normally takes three courses in aspects of science policy and technology assessment. APPLICATIONS: Currently enrolled graduate students in their first, second, or third year in all science and engineering departments are eligible to apply.
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Environmental Science and Technology, December 15, 1999 "The North Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation Collapse as a Constraint on Economic Optimal Carbon Dioxide Emissions." K Keller, K
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