IGERT: Sustainable Energy from Solar Hydrogen

IGERT：来自太阳能氢的可持续能源

• 批准号: 0549399
• 负责人: S. Ismat Shah
• 金额: $ 309.7万
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0549399&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Sustainable; Energy; Solar; Hydrogen

The development of a sustainable energy system is a critical global problem that impacts the environment, politics, economics, and security. Solar hydrogen (hydrogen generated from sustainable solar-derived power such as photovoltaics or biomass) offers a potential solution to this problem. However, an environmentally and economically sustainable solar hydrogen system requires integration of policy, economics, systems, and components, as well as multidisciplinary approaches to the conversion and storage devices themselves. The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award to the University of Delaware enables development of a new graduate program in Sustainable Energy from Solar Hydrogen that will integrate relevant concepts from science, engineering, economics, and social sciences. The program is aimed at providing students with the multidisciplinary background both to make the scientific and technical breakthroughs that will drive advances in energy conversion and storage and to provide the leadership that will ensure appropriate use of the technology. The IGERT program uses pedagogical tools that have been shown to increase learning effectiveness, emphasizes the societal responsibility of scientists and engineers through outreach programs and mentoring, and provides students with the skills needed to become leaders by focusing on problem solving, communication, teamwork, and collaboration. The program also develops a model for recruiting and retaining members of underrepresented groups by explicitly addressing factors that hinder graduation, such as accommodation of multiple backgrounds in the educational program, early integration with all members of the research program, mentoring, and training in the skills needed for both research and broader success. The graduate model has the potential for broad applicability because similar educational challenges exist in many complex problems today, where the science and technology lie at the intersection of traditionally unrelated disciplines and where application of the technology intersects with social, political, and economic factors. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.

可持续能源系统的发展是影响环境，政治，经济学和安全的关键全球问题。 太阳能氢（由可持续太阳能衍生的功率（例如光伏或生物量）产生的氢为该问题提供了潜在的解决方案。但是，在环境和经济上可持续的太阳能氢系统需要整合政策，经济学，系统和组件，以及用于转换和存储设备本身的多学科方法。 特拉华大学的综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）授予了来自太阳能氢的新研究生计划，该计划将从太阳能氢中开发，该计划将整合科学，工程，经济学和社会科学的相关概念。 该计划的目的是为学生提供多学科背景，以实现科学和技术突破，以推动能源转化和存储的进步，并提供将确保适当使用技术的领导力。 IGERT计划使用的教学工具已被证明可以提高学习效率，并通过外展计划和指导强调科学家和工程师的社会责任，并通过专注于解决问题，沟通，团队合作和协作来为学生提供所需的技能。该计划还开发了一个模型，用于通过明确解决毕业的因素，例如教育计划中多个背景，与研究计划的所有成员的早期融合，指导以及在研究所需的技能上的培训以及研究和更广泛的成功所需的技能培训，以招募和留住代表性群体不足的群体的成员。研究生模型具有广泛的适用性，因为当今许多复杂的问题中存在类似的教育挑战，在这些问题中，科学和技术位于传统上不相关的学科的交汇处，以及技术的应用与社会，政治和经济因素相交的地方。 IGERT是一项旨在应对美国博士学位的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，所选学科的深刻知识以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过在肥沃的环境中建立创新的研究生教育和培训的新模型来促进研究生教育的文化变革，以超越传统学科界限的合作研究。