Collaborative Research: REU Site: The Great Lakes Wind Energy Challenges (REU-GLWind)

合作研究：REU 站点：五大湖风能挑战 (REU-GLWind)

• 批准号: 2150000
• 负责人: Wei Zhang
• 金额: $ 21.71万
• 依托单位: Cleveland State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-15 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150000&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; REU; Site; Great

Wind energy, an affordable renewable energy source, has great potential to meet the growing energy demand, mitigate climate change causes and contribute to a cleaner, sustainable, domestic energy generation portfolio. Despite the demand for wind energy research and development nationally and globally, many undergraduate students of non-R1 universities have limited opportunities to participate in active wind energy research. To tap the nation's diverse student talent pool and broaden participation in science and engineering, there is a critical need to provide these students access to wind energy research early in their career and motivate them to pursue graduate education or research-oriented jobs in the wind energy sector. The Great Lakes (GL) Wind REU site aims to provide a diverse group of undergraduate students with an authentic, engaging learning and research training experience and professional growth opportunities in the broad areas of wind energy.The Great Lakes Wind REU site will support ten undergraduate students for ten-week summer research co-hosted by the Cleveland State University, a public urban university, and Case Western Reserve University, an R1 private university. It will leverage Icebreaker Wind, the first freshwater offshore wind farm in Cleveland, Ohio in Lake Erie and the Great Lakes region as the testbed. REU students will be exposed to a summer research experience that consists of (i) participation in ongoing wind energy research in inclusive learning and research communities, (ii) weekly seminars of research frontier and professional development, (iii) field visit of a utility-scale wind turbine site at the Great Lakes Energy Institute, and (iv) research communication/dissemination in workshops and conferences. The GL Wind REU project particularly emphasizes recruiting women, underrepresented minorities, and students from community colleges and universities without research programs in engineering.This project is jointly funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) and the Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).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.

风能是一种负担得起的可再生能源，在满足不断增长的能源需求、缓解气候变化原因以及促进更清洁、可持续的国内能源发电组合方面具有巨大潜力。尽管国内外对风能研究和开发的需求很大，但许多非 R1 大学的本科生参与积极风能研究的机会有限。为了挖掘全国多样化的学生人才库并扩大对科学和工程的参与，迫切需要为这些学生提供在职业生涯早期接触风能研究的机会，并激励他们从事风能领域的研究生教育或研究型工作部门。五大湖 (GL) 风能 REU 基地旨在为多元化的本科生群体提供真实、引人入胜的学习和研究培训经验以及风能广泛领域的专业发展机会。五大湖风能 REU 基地将支持 10 名本科生学生参加由克利夫兰州立大学（一所公立城市大学）和凯斯西储大学（一所 R1 私立大学）共同主办的为期十周的暑期研究。它将利用位于俄亥俄州克利夫兰伊利湖和五大湖地区的第一个淡水海上风电场 Icebreaker Wind 作为试验台。 REU 学生将获得暑期研究体验，其中包括 (i) 参与包容性学习和研究社区正在进行的风能研究，(ii) 每周研究前沿和专业发展研讨会，(iii) 实地考察公用事业公司五大湖能源研究所规模风力涡轮机站点，以及 (iv) 在研讨会和会议上进行研究交流/传播。 GL Wind REU 项目特别强调招募女性、代表性不足的少数族裔以及没有工程研究项目的社区学院和大学的学生。该项目由美国国家科学基金会 (NSF)、工程教育与中心部 (EEC) 和能源部 (DOE)、国家能源技术实验室 (NETL)。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。