IGERT: The Solar Economy (SEIGERT)

IGERT：太阳能经济 (SEIGERT)

• 批准号: 0903670
• 负责人: Rakesh Agrawal
• 金额: $ 310万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0903670&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Solar; Economy; SEIGERT

The Solar Economy Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) project supports the development of a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional graduate training program of education and research in a sustainable solar economy at the Purdue University in collaboration with University of Delaware, University of Texas at El Paso, Sandia National Laboratory, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy, Monash University and several industrial partners. We use the term "solar economy" to refer to a future state of affairs where nearly all the energy needed for electricity, transportation, heat, chemicals and food is based on sustainable supply of sunlight. To enable such a future state, this IGERT is primarily rooted in finding interdisciplinary technical solutions to the most important challenges of sun-to-electricity and sun-to-fuel within the context of harmonious coexistence with other uses of solar energy. In order to identify breakthrough technical solutions and gain a thorough insight into the complexity of a solar economy, a large number of interdisciplinary solutions will be generated and rapidly assessed for their system-wide impact. The IGERT establishes a new vision and program for integrating education and training that will reveal the complexity of this system to individuals from the diverse backgrounds necessary to address the future key energy challenges. The transition away from fossil fuels to a new solar economy necessitates major changes to the U.S. infrastructure and redefines the skill set required by our workforce. The IGERT program will address this need by developing lectures, course modules, training modules, and simulation tools that will define a new paradigm for interdisciplinary education and training in renewable energy. 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.

太阳能经济综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）项目支持普渡大学与特拉华州大学，德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校，桑迪亚国家实验室，国家可再生能源实验室，弗劳恩霍夫太阳能系统研究所，亥姆霍兹柏林材料与能源中心、莫纳什大学和几个工业合作伙伴。我们使用“太阳能经济”一词来指未来的情况，即电力、交通、热力、化学品和食品所需的几乎所有能源都基于可持续的阳光供应。为了实现这样的未来状态，IGERT主要致力于在与其他太阳能用途和谐共存的背景下，为太阳能发电和太阳能燃料的最重要挑战寻找跨学科的技术解决方案。为了确定突破性的技术解决方案，并深入了解太阳能经济的复杂性，将产生大量跨学科的解决方案，并迅速评估其对整个系统的影响。IGERT建立了一个整合教育和培训的新愿景和计划，将向来自不同背景的个人揭示该系统的复杂性，以应对未来的关键能源挑战。从化石燃料到新太阳能经济的过渡需要对美国的基础设施进行重大变革，并重新定义我们的劳动力所需的技能。IGERT计划将通过开发讲座，课程模块，培训模块和模拟工具来满足这一需求，这些工具将为可再生能源的跨学科教育和培训定义一个新的范式。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，在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新模式，在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。