FW-HTF-P: Workers and Technology Together (WATT)

FW-HTF-P：工人和技术在一起 (WATT)

• 批准号: 2129137
• 负责人: Nhut Ho
• 金额: $ 14.95万
• 依托单位: The University Corporation, Northridge
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-15 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2129137&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FW; HTF; Workers; Technology; Together

In this planning grant, the WATT project research team will explore the potential for autonomy technologies to improve the efficiency, productivity, safety, and security of the organic waste processing industry. Methane released from organic waste (e.g., food scraps) accounts for a significant percentage of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere that contribute to the warming of the planet, and by extension, climate change. The current methods of sorting and processing organic waste are inefficient, hazardous, and undertaken primarily by low-wage temporary workers who lack job security, living wages and benefits. The research undertaken by the WATT project research team will lay the foundation for future social and technological innovations within the organic waste processing industry that will increase operational efficiency, create job stability, skills training, and upward mobility for workers, create opportunities for human-machine teaming, and ultimately reduce the impact of this industry on climate change while uplifting workers.The WATT research team, through a transdisciplinary approach consisting of real-time, on-site observations, focus groups, surveys, and interviews with waste industry stakeholders (line workers, business owners, safety inspectors/enforcers), will identify socio-technological innovations that will address the challenges with separation, conversion to energy, legal frameworks, adaptation of best practices, and climate change analyses in the context of organic waste processing. The research team consists of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and subject matter experts representing a diverse cross-section of academic disciplines (e.g., waste management, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, computer science, business, law, anthropology, and art and design), an integral and critical piece of the project’s approach, that will reveal holistic, transdisciplinary approaches for improving an industry critical to the responsible functioning of a 21st century society.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在这项计划赠款中，瓦特项目研究团队将探索自治技术提高有机废物处理行业效率，生产力，安全性和安全性的潜力。从有机废物中释放出来的甲烷（例如，食物废料）占大部分大气中的温室气体，这有助于地球的变暖，并扩展，气候变化。当前的分类和加工有机废物的方法是由缺乏工作保障，生活等待和福利的低薪临时工的无效，危险和主要的。瓦特项目研究团队进行的研究将为有机废物加工行业内的未来社会和技术创新奠定基础调查以及对废物行业利益相关者（线工人，企业主，安全检查员/执行者）的访谈，将确定社会技术创新，这些创新将通过分离，转换为能源，最佳实践的适应性，以及在有机废物处理的背景下解决挑战，最佳实践的适应和气候变化分析。研究团队由教师，毕业生和本科生以及主题专家组成，代表了潜水员的学科（例如废物管理，制造业和机械工程，计算机科学，商业，法律，人类学，人类学以及艺术和艺术和设计），这是项目的组成部分和关键方法，可以揭示一个既定性，thressiblety Cenrulty of thristibalials的工业，以揭示一个重要的工业，以揭示一个至关重要的方法。 NSF的法定使命，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准来评估，被认为是宝贵的支持。