IGERT: Sustainable Energy from Solar Hydrogen

IGERT：来自太阳能氢的可持续能源

• 批准号: 0549399
• 负责人: S. Ismat Shah
• 金额: $ 309.7万
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0549399&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Sustainable; Energy; Solar; Hydrogen

The development of a sustainable energy system is a critical global problem that impacts the environment, politics, economics, and security. Solar hydrogen (hydrogen generated from sustainable solar-derived power such as photovoltaics or biomass) offers a potential solution to this problem. However, an environmentally and economically sustainable solar hydrogen system requires integration of policy, economics, systems, and components, as well as multidisciplinary approaches to the conversion and storage devices themselves. The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award to the University of Delaware enables development of a new graduate program in Sustainable Energy from Solar Hydrogen that will integrate relevant concepts from science, engineering, economics, and social sciences. The program is aimed at providing students with the multidisciplinary background both to make the scientific and technical breakthroughs that will drive advances in energy conversion and storage and to provide the leadership that will ensure appropriate use of the technology. The IGERT program uses pedagogical tools that have been shown to increase learning effectiveness, emphasizes the societal responsibility of scientists and engineers through outreach programs and mentoring, and provides students with the skills needed to become leaders by focusing on problem solving, communication, teamwork, and collaboration. The program also develops a model for recruiting and retaining members of underrepresented groups by explicitly addressing factors that hinder graduation, such as accommodation of multiple backgrounds in the educational program, early integration with all members of the research program, mentoring, and training in the skills needed for both research and broader success. The graduate model has the potential for broad applicability because similar educational challenges exist in many complex problems today, where the science and technology lie at the intersection of traditionally unrelated disciplines and where application of the technology intersects with social, political, and economic factors. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.

可持续能源系统的发展是一个影响环境、政治、经济和安全的关键全球问题。太阳能氢（由可持续的太阳能衍生能源如光伏或生物质产生的氢）为这个问题提供了一个潜在的解决方案。然而，一个环境和经济上可持续的太阳能氢系统需要整合政策、经济、系统和组件，以及转换和存储设备本身的多学科方法。特拉华大学获得的综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持开发太阳能氢可持续能源的新研究生课程，该课程将整合科学、工程、经济学和社会科学的相关概念。该计划旨在为学生提供多学科背景，使科学和技术突破，推动能源转换和存储的进步，并提供领导，以确保适当使用该技术。IGERT项目使用的教学工具已被证明可以提高学习效率，通过外展项目和指导强调科学家和工程师的社会责任，并通过注重解决问题、沟通、团队合作和协作，为学生提供成为领导者所需的技能。该项目还开发了一个招募和留住代表性不足群体成员的模式，通过明确解决阻碍毕业的因素，例如在教育项目中容纳多种背景，早期融入研究项目的所有成员，指导和培训研究和更广泛成功所需的技能。研究生模式具有广泛适用性的潜力，因为类似的教育挑战存在于今天的许多复杂问题中，其中科学和技术位于传统上不相关的学科的交叉点，并且技术的应用与社会，政治和经济因素交叉。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，促进研究生教育的文化变革。