IGERT: STAIR: Sustainable Technology through Advanced Interdisciplinary Research

IGERT：STAIR：通过先进的跨学科研究实现可持续技术

• 批准号: 0801470
• 负责人: David Keffer
• 金额: $ 294.14万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0801470&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; STAIR; Sustainable; Technology; through

Given the impending global energy/climate crisis, engineering practice must undergo a paradigm shift from a traditional design process that had little regard to energy and/or environmental costs to a new process that must address a broader set of parameters that include the ultimate sustainability of the design alternatives. This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program will provide the resources for the University of Tennessee to become a national curriculum and research leader in sustainable energy technologies by developing the technological, scientific, and engineering expertise required. The training of scientists and engineers must now change in two important ways. First, engineers must now learn to work within the context of sustainable production processes. Second, engineers must now learn to work regularly on complex innovative production processes that require advanced interdisciplinary expertise and collaboration of materials, computational and biological sciences and engineering. This IGERT provides a highly integrated engineering curriculum and training program with a coherent sequence of steps toward the proficiency required to work effectively in the sustainable energy arena. The program fosters the development of technological, scientific, and engineering expertise required in exploring new, sustainable energy technologies. The diverse trainees will have expertise in either biomolecular engineering or materials science and engineering relevant to sustainable production of energy; breadth in both the biomolecular and materials disciplines; pervasive exposure to research performed within the context of sustainability; and a commitment to outreach through workshops at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge and Knoxville ASM Summer Materials Camp. 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.

鉴于即将来临的全球能源/气候危机，工程实践必须经历范式的转变，从传统的设计过程中，对能源和/或环境成本几乎没有考虑到新过程，该过程必须解决一系列更广泛的参数，包括设计替代方案的最终可持续性。这项综合研究生教育和研究训练（IGERT）计划将通过开发所需的技术，科学和工程专业知识来为田纳西大学提供资源，成为可持续能源技术的国家课程和研究领导者。 科学家和工程师的培训现在必须以两种重要方式改变。首先，工程师现在必须学会在可持续生产过程的背景下工作。其次，工程师现在必须学会定期研究复杂的创新生产过程，这些过程需要高级跨学科专业知识以及材料，计算和生物科学与工程的协作。该IGERT提供了一项高度集成的工程课程和培训计划，并具有一致的步骤，朝着在可持续能源领域有效工作所需的能力。该计划促进了探索新的可持续能源技术所需的技术，科学和工程专业知识的发展。 多元化的学员将拥有与可持续产生能源相关的生物分子工程或材料科学和工程方面的专业知识；生物分子和材料学科的广度；在可持续性的背景下进行的普遍暴露于进行的研究；以及在橡树岭和诺克斯维尔ASM夏季材料营的美国科学与能源博物馆举办研讨会的承诺。 IGERT是一项旨在应对美国博士学位的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，所选学科的深刻知识以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过在肥沃的环境中建立创新的研究生教育和培训的新模型来促进研究生教育的文化变革，以超越传统学科界限的合作研究。