Developing a 21st Century Training Program in the Florida Keys for Renewable Alternative Energy Technology: Wind, Solar and Tidal Power

在佛罗里达群岛开发 21 世纪可再生替代能源技术培训计划：风能、太阳能和潮汐能

• 批准号: 1601440
• 负责人: Patrick Rice
• 金额: $ 89.43万
• 依托单位: Florida Keys Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-15 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1601440&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; 21st; Century; Training; Program

The need for sustainable, clean, renewable alternative energy is well grounded, as well as the need to establish renewable alternative energy production technologies (e.g. wind and solar power) and increase exploration of new technologies like tidal power. With increasing demands for "solar and wind" jobs, the training needed to create the workforce necessary to sustain the rapid expansion and transition to these new energy production technologies is also needed. Florida Keys Community College (FKCC) is ideally located in one of the sunniest, windiest and tidal energy rich cities in the US. This project at FKCC will lead to the development of an Associate in Science degree for Engineering Technology that will focus on training Alternative Energy Technicians and conducting research to foster wind, solar and tidal energy technologies locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. As FKCC trains the 21st Century workforce for green energy, conducts research to harness the surrounding renewable energy resources and develops a global network devoted to fostering the renewable energy industry, the Engineering Technology Alternative Energy Technicians (ET-AET) program will be at the epicenter. The proposed two year training and research program will join a network of other regional engineering technology programs that will maximize transferability while using unique research opportunities as a training tool for wind, solar and tidal energy. The College has extraordinary infrastructure that makes it perfectly suited for renewable energy training, including a 17,000 square meter lagoon that will be used as a tidal energy simulation laboratory (TESLA). The TESLA facility will allow FKCC to participate in ground breaking tidal energy research by testing prototype tidal energy devices in a controlled yet natural marine environment. The program will include multiple industry certifications and be highlighted by a capstone industry internship that will provide valuable "real world" skills combined with paid professional experience and job placement opportunities. The program partners include a host of national and international renewable alternative energy experts and promises to provide state-of-the-art technology and opportunities for developing global networks, all while fostering the transition from fossil fuels to green energy.

对可持续，清洁，可再生的替代能源的需求是有充分扎根的，并且需要建立可再生的替代能源生产技术（例如，风能和太阳能），并增加对潮汐能等新技术的探索。随着对“太阳能和风”工作的需求不断提高，还需要需要培训来创造劳动力，以维持这些新的能源生产技术的快速扩张和过渡所需的劳动力。佛罗里达钥匙社区学院（FKCC）位于美国最阳光，最风和潮汐富裕城市之一。 FKCC的该项目将导致工程技术科学副学士学位的发展，该项目将着重于培训替代能源技术人员并进行研究以促进风，太阳能和潮汐能在本地，区域，国家，国内和国际上培养风能。随着FKCC训练21世纪的绿色能源劳动力，进行研究以利用周围的可再生能源资源，并开发了一个致力于促进可再生能源行业的全球网络，工程技术替代能源技术人员（ET-AET）计划将在Epicenter上进行。拟议的为期两年的培训和研究计划将加入其他区域工程技术计划的网络，该网络将最大化可转移性，同时使用独特的研究机会作为风，太阳能和潮汐能的培训工具。该学院拥有非凡的基础设施，非常适合可再生能源训练，其中包括17,000平方米的泻湖，将用作潮汐能量模拟实验室（Tesla）。特斯拉设施将允许FKCC通过在受控而自然的海洋环境中测试原型潮汐能设备来参与突破性的潮汐能研究。该计划将包括多项行业认证，并由顶峰行业实习来强调，该实习将提供有价值的“现实世界”技能，并结合有薪专业经验和工作机会。该计划的合作伙伴包括许多国家和国际可再生​​能源的能源专家，并承诺为开发全球网络提供最先进的技术和机会，同时促进从化石燃料到绿色能源的过渡。