IGERT: Solutions for Renewable and Sustainable Fuels in the 21st Century

IGERT：21 世纪可再生和可持续燃料解决方案

• 批准号: 0903675
• 负责人: Eric Lam
• 金额: $ 319.73万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0903675&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Solutions; Renewable; Sustainable; Fuels

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) project supports the development at Rutgers University of a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional graduate training program in the area of renewable and sustainable fuel solutions. Together with partner institutions Virginia Union University, Delaware State University and the University of Puerto Rico, this program emphasizes broad training that will produce a new generation of leaders and professionals who can design and implement sustainable solutions for renewable fuels worldwide. Graduate trainees will all be exposed to fundamentals in biotechnology, chemistry, ecology, engineering and energy policy through course work as well as internships and training opportunities in industry, government and academia. The program will emphasize global awareness in energy research and the broad political and economic implications of fuel solutions for 6.6 billion people today and future generations. Participating faculty from Rutgers will present research at large minority-serving institutions, historically black colleges and universities, and women's colleges in the United States in order to attract students from these institutions to the IGERT project. Coordinating through the Rutgers Energy Institute and Biotechnology Center for Agriculture and the Environment, participants from 14 research Institutes and Centers at Rutgers University will partner with institutions in Brazil, China and South Africa to further expose IGERT trainees to complexities of the fuel problem worldwide. As such, it is expected that many of the graduates from this IGERT program will become leaders and experts to shape our country's future energy economy and policy, thereby benefiting the Nation's energy security and approach to the related complex issue of climate change. 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.

这个综合研究生教育和研究实习生（IGERT）项目支持罗格斯大学的发展，该大学在可再生和可持续的燃料解决方案领域的多学科，多机构研究生培训计划。 该计划与弗吉尼亚联合大学，特拉华州立大学和波多黎各大学的合作机构一起，强调了广泛的培训，该培训将培养新一代的领导者和专业人士，他们可以为全球可再生燃料设计和实施可持续的解决方案。 研究生学员将通过课程工作以及工业，政府和学术界的实习机会以及实习机会和培训机会，将暴露于生物技术，化学，生态学，工程和能源政策的基础上。 该计划将强调全球对能源研究的认识以及燃料解决方案对当今66亿人的广泛政治和经济影响。 来自罗格斯的教职员工将向大型少数族裔服务机构，历史上的黑人学院和大学提供研究，以吸引这些机构的学生参加IGERT项目。 通过Rutgers能源研究所和生物技术中心进行协调，来自Rutgers University的14个研究机构和中心的参与者将与巴西，中国和南非的机构合作，进一步使Igert训练者接触到全球燃料问题的复杂性。 因此，预计该IGERT计划的许多毕业生将成为塑造我们国家未来能源经济和政策的领导者和专家，从而使该国的能源安全以及解决相关的气候变化复杂问题的方法受益。 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。