Collaborative Research: A Solar and Wind Innovation and Technology Collaborative for Hawaii (SWITCH)

合作研究：夏威夷太阳能和风能创新与技术合作组织 (SWITCH)

• 批准号: 2301164
• 负责人: Charles Xie
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: INSTITUTE FOR FUTURE INTELLIGENCE, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2301164&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Solar; Wind; Innovation

This Track 2 ATE project aims to serve the national interest by cultivating the next generation workforce to lead Hawaii’s transition to 100% renewable energy by 2045. A central challenge in renewable energy generation is it often confronts other basic needs such as food, water, and culture, as its distributed nature demands a lot of space. As such, large-scale deployments of renewable energy generators in our country would be unthinkable without establishing wide social acceptance. Studies have suggested that greater public participation in planning and designing of renewable energy solutions can increase their transparency and gain more public trust and community support. However, the current paradigm of technical education in the field of renewable energy lacks essential elements for teaching students how to address public concerns with technological solutions and then communicate the engineering results to stakeholders. This project will supplement these elements to existing courses in community colleges and use the social environments of public schools as testbeds for students to learn and practice those “soft skills.”In partnership with five high schools in Hawaii, Kapiolani Community College (KCC) and the Institute for Future Intelligence (IFI) will develop innovative educational programs that engage community college and high school students to learn the knowledge and skills needed to take on the renewable energy challenge. These programs will use students’ own homes, schools, and communities as the application scenarios for designing hypothetical solar and wind energy solutions. Students will learn how to meet the diverse needs of their families and communities while minimizing adverse effects on local ecosystems, cultures, and economies. To consolidate the pathway of career and technical education from the secondary level to the tertiary level, the project will designate KCC students who have successfully completed these programs as teaching assistants to teachers and design tutors to students in collaborating high schools to help them implement customized versions of the programs. The project will be empowered by Aladdin, an open-source, Web-based computer-aided design tool developed by IFI as a citizen science platform that supports public participation in renewable energy engineering and planning. Aladdin allows anyone to design their own renewable energy solutions for their communities, share the proposed solutions via social networks, and draw public interest in crowdfunding their construction. KCC will run annual professional development workshops to introduce the curricular and technological innovations of this project to secondary teachers in Hawaii. Interested teachers will then partner with KCC to implement these innovations in their schools. This project will be overseen by an Advisory Board consisting of experts in the fields of renewable energy, technical education, and policy making. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation’s economy.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.

该赛道2 ATE项目旨在通过培养下一代劳动力来实现国家利益，以领导夏威夷到2045年的过渡到100％可再生能源。可再生能源产生的核心挑战是它经常面临其他基本需求，例如食品，水和文化，因为其分布的性质需求很大。因此，如果不建立广泛的社会认可，在我国可再生能源生成器的大规模部署将是不可想象的。研究表明，更大的公众参与计划和设计可再生能源解决方案可以提高其透明度，并获得更多的公共信任和社区支持。但是，当前在可再生能源领域的技术教育范式缺乏教学学生如何通过技术解决方案来解决公众关注的基本要素，然后将工程成果传达给利益相关者。该项目将把这些元素补充到社区大学的现有课程中，并利用公立学校的社交环境作为学生学习和练习这些“软技能”。与夏威夷的五所高中，Kapiolani社区学院（KCC）合作，将未来智能学院（IFI）（IFI）与他们开发社区能力的学生有关知识和高中知识的创新课程，以吸引社区的能力和技能。这些计划将使用学生自己的房屋，学校和社区作为设计假设太阳能和风能解决方案的应用程序。学生将学习如何满足家庭和社区的潜水员需求，同时最大程度地减少对当地生态系统，文化和经济的不利影响。为了巩固从中级到三级级别的职业和技术教育的途径，该项目将指定KCC学生成功完成这些课程的学生，作为教师和设计导师的教师和设计导师，以帮助他们合作高中，以帮助他们实施定制的计划。该项目将由IFI开发的开源，基于网络的计算机辅助设计工具Aladdin作为公民科学平台开发，该工具支持公众参与可再生能源工程和计划。 Aladdin允许任何人为其社区设计自己的可再生能源解决方案，通过社交网络分享拟议的解决方案，并引起公众对众筹的兴趣。 KCC将举办年度专业发展研讨会，以将该项目的当前和技术创新介绍给夏威夷的二级教师。有兴趣的老师将与KCC合作，在其学校实施这些创新。该项目将由由可再生能源，技术教育和政策制定领域的专家组成的顾问委员会监督。该项目由高级技术教育计划提供资金，该计划的重点是推动国家经济的高级技术领域的技术教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来评估标准，被认为是通过评估来获得的支持。

项目成果

Using Computer Graphics to Make Science Visible in Engineering Education

利用计算机图形学使科学在工程教育中可见

• DOI: 10.1109/mcg.2023.3298386
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
• 影响因子: 1.8
• 作者: Xie, Charles;Ding, Xiaotong;Jiang, Rundong
• 通讯作者: Jiang, Rundong

Solarize Your World: Addressing Climate Change Through Renewable Energy Engineering

阳光照射你的世界：通过可再生能源工程应对气候变化

• DOI: 10.1119/5.0137219
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: The Physics Teacher
• 作者: Jiang, Rundong;Ding, Xiaotong;Xie, Charles
• 通讯作者: Xie, Charles

Beyond Solar Cookers: Modeling and Designing Concentrated Solar Power as Engineering Projects in Physics Classrooms

超越太阳能炊具：将聚光太阳能建模和设计为物理课堂的工程项目

• DOI: 10.1119/5.0090548
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: The Physics Teacher
• 作者: Xie, Charles