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、经济和安全的一个关键的全球问题。 太阳能氢（由光伏或生物质等可持续太阳能发电产生的氢）为这一问题提供了潜在的解决方案。然而，环境和经济上可持续的太阳能氢系统需要政策、经济、系统和组件的整合，以及转换和存储设备本身的多学科方法。 特拉华大学获得的综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖促进了太阳能氢可持续能源新研究生项目的开发，该项目将整合科学、工程、经济和社会科学的相关概念。 该计划旨在为学生提供多学科背景，以实现科学和技术突破，推动能源转换和存储的进步，并提供领导力，确保适当使用该技术。 IGERT 计划使用已被证明可以提高学习效率的教学工具，通过外展计划和指导强调科学家和工程师的社会责任，并通过专注于问题解决、沟通、团队合作和学习，为学生提供成为领导者所需的技能。合作。该计划还开发了一个招募和保留代表性不足群体成员的模型，明确解决阻碍毕业的因素，例如教育计划中多种背景的适应、与研究计划的所有成员的早期融合、指导和技能培训研究和更广泛的成功都需要。研究生模式具有广泛适用性的潜力，因为当今许多复杂的问题中都存在类似的教育挑战，其中科学和技术处于传统上不相关学科的交叉点，并且技术的应用与社会、政治和经济因素交叉。 IGERT 是一项 NSF 范围内的计划，旨在应对美国博士生教育的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，对所选学科有深厚的知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，促进研究生教育的文化变革。