New, GK-12: Growing the Green Collar Workforce for the 21st Century

新，GK-12：培养 21 世纪的绿领劳动力

• 批准号: 0947929
• 负责人: Basil Nikolau
• 金额: $ 272.96万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-01 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0947929&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: New; GK; 12; Growing; Green

TITLE: New GK-12: Growing the green collar workforce for the 21st centuryINSTITUTION: Iowa State UniversityThis project will support graduate student fellows who will act as the human interface to motivationally communicate to middle school teachers and students the excitement and innovations that are the scientific underpinnings of today?s technologically savvy, modern society. The rationale for this program is the need to solidly ground this country's educators and young students in STEM-theme pedagogy. In the long-term such research-based education and training is a prerequisite for facing the emerging societal challenge to generate technologies that will maintain a sustainable standard of living, which ultimately will be dependent on renewable sources of energy and industrial materials. This program builds on Iowa State University's established scholarly infrastructures that are designed to be interdisciplinary and address key technology gaps for harnessing renewable energy sources (solar energy) and generate carbon-based energy and chemicals using atmospheric CO2 as the ultimate carbon-source. This interdisciplinary research integrates core themes that are grounded in STEM research, which include the fields of plant sciences, agro-engineering, biocatalysis, biochemical pathway discovery and metabolic engineering, bioinformatics, biomaterials, chemical catalysis, and mathematics. Broader impacts of the project include increased professional development opportunities for middle school science teachers; expanded educational and career opportunities for K12 students in STEM disciplines, especially those from underrepresented minorities and economically disadvantaged; benefits to US economy resulting from well-trained, globally competitive workforce; and recruitment of female and underrepresented minority graduate students to associated academic programs.

标题：新的GK-12：增加21世纪的绿领劳动力：爱荷华州立大学项目将支持研究生研究员，他们将充当人类界面，以动机与中学教师和学生交流的兴奋和创新，这是科学的兴奋和创新当今的基础技术精明，现代社会。 该计划的理由是需要以STEM-THEME教学法扎实这个国家的教育者和年轻学生。 从长远来看，基于研究的教育和培训是面临新兴社会挑战的先决条件，以生成将保持可持续生活水平的技术，最终将取决于可更新的能源和工业材料的来源。 该计划建立在爱荷华州立大学既定的学术基础设施上，这些基础设施旨在跨学科，并解决关键的技术差距，用于利用可再生能源（太阳能），并使用大气二氧化碳作为最终的碳源库来产生碳基能量和化学物质。这项跨学科研究整合了基于STEM研究的核心主题，其中包括植物科学领域，农业工程，生物催化，生化途径发现和代谢工程，生物信息学，生物材料，化学催化和数学。 该项目的更广泛影响包括增加中学科学教师的专业发展机会；在STEM学科中，K12学生的教育和职业机会扩大了，尤其是来自人为不足的少数民族和经济不利的人的教育机会；训练有素，全球竞争激烈的劳动力所带来的利益；并招募女性和代表性不足的少数群体研究生参加相关的学术课程。