IGERT: Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)提供资金的。这一综合性研究生教育和研究培训(IGERT)奖支持加州大学洛杉矶分校的一个项目，该项目的主题是绿色产业的清洁能源。跨学科的研究生教育方法旨在培养美国博士科学家和工程师，使他们在清洁能源领域发挥领导作用。这些技术推进将能源收集、储存和节约这三个科学领域与政策和商业相结合，以解决复杂的清洁能源问题，并确定转型研究领域。通过这一基础结构，IGERT应对在不进一步对环境造成负面影响的情况下满足日益增长的能源需求这一紧迫的社会挑战。只有通过拥有高技能、受过广泛教育、具有全球视野的领导层的大学-行业-地方政府合作伙伴关系，才能开发出这样的解决方案。这种伙伴关系对城市地区的经济发展具有很高的潜力，这些地区拥有训练有素的劳动力、支持的政府和有远见的工业基础，为这一领域的增长做好了准备。通过产业创新伙伴、知识产权开发和快速技术转让创造就业机会，促进了与产业的密切互动。重点是通过清洁能源研究、新业务、训练有素的劳动力发展、公平和包容来实现经济扩张。计划战略包括跨学科、综合研究和教育培训、用于校园和在线传播的模块化清洁能源课程、多样性和包容性。能源收集、储存、节约和政策的总体主题在综合研究、教育和服务组成部分中得到呼应。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目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，催化研究生教育的文化变革。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009(Public Law 111-5). This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award supports a program at the University of California, Los Angeles on the topic of clean energy for green industry. An interdisciplinary approach to graduate education is designed to train U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers for leadership roles in the clean energy sector. The technical thrusts merge three scientific areas of energy harvesting, storage and conservation with policy and business to address complex clean energy issues and identify areas for transformational research. Through this foundational structure, this IGERT addresses the urgent societal challenge of meeting increasing energy needs without further negatively affecting the environment. The development of such solutions is only feasible through university-industry-local government partnerships with highly-skilled, broadly-educated, globally-minded leadership. Such partnerships have high potential for economic development in urban areas primed for growth in this sector, with a well-trained workforce, a supportive government and visionary industrial foundations. Close interaction with industry is fostered through industrial innovation partners, intellectual property development and rapid technology transfer for job creation. Emphasis is placed on economic expansion through clean energy research, new business, highly trained workforce development, equity and inclusion. Program strategies include cross-disciplinary, integrated research and education training, modular clean energy curriculum for both on-campus and on-line dissemination, diversity and inclusion. The overarching theme of energy harvesting, storage, conservation and policy is echoed in integrated research, education and service components. 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.