IGERT: ConvEne--Conversion of Energy Through Molecular Platforms

IGERT：ConvEne——通过分子平台进行能量转换

• 批准号: 0801627
• 负责人: Ram Seshadri
• 金额: $ 319.89万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0801627&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; ConvEne; Conversion; Energy; Through

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports a program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, entitled Conversion of Energy Through Molecular Platforms. In this program, an interdisciplinary approach to graduate education is aimed at providing a new generation of chemical scientists and engineers with the technical skills, environmental awareness, business expertise, and teamwork approaches that will be required to address fundamental and applied issues in the generation and conversion of energy in efficient and environmentally-sustainable ways. The program is founded on the recognition that graduate students of Materials Chemistry and Engineering are conventionally trained to prepare and employ specific classes of functional materials to address particular technological needs. For a problem as broad and as urgent as global energy needs, these traditional modes of training do not suffice. In our new interdisciplinary model of education, the focus is on the better husbanding of fossil fuel resources, and on the inexpensive and large-scale conversion of solar energy to electricity. Graduate students with diverse backgrounds, drawn from a broad pool from across the country, are directed to address issues in energy conversion without being confined to any single material or technology, while learning to appreciate the economic and environmental issues that impact the implementation of technology. A mark of the program is a solid foundation in the entrepreneurial and communication skills needed to influence fundamental research directions, industrial advances, and national priorities in a significant and lasting manner. 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.

该综合研究生教育和研究培训 (IGERT) 奖项支持加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的一项名为“通过分子平台转换能量”的项目。在该计划中，研究生教育采用跨学科方法，旨在为新一代化学科学家和工程师提供技术技能、环境意识、业务专业知识和团队合作方法，以解决生成和应用过程中的基本和应用问题。以高效且环境可持续的方式转换能源。该计划的基础是认识到材料化学与工程专业的研究生通常接受过准备和使用特定类别的功能材料来满足特定技术需求的培训。对于全球能源需求这样广泛而紧迫的问题，这些传统的培训模式还不够。在我们新的跨学科教育模式中，重点是更好地利用化石燃料资源，以及廉价且大规模地将太阳能转化为电力。来自全国各地的具有不同背景的研究生被引导解决能源转换问题，而不受任何单一材料或技术的限制，同时学习理解影响技术实施的经济和环境问题。该项目的一个标志是为以显着和持久的方式影响基础研究方向、工业进步和国家优先事项所需的创业和沟通技能奠定了坚实的基础。 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。