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）资助的。 这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持在加州，洛杉矶的清洁能源为主题的绿色产业的大学计划。一个跨学科的方法来研究生教育的目的是培养美国博士。科学家和工程师在清洁能源领域的领导作用。 技术重点将能源收集、储存和保护三个科学领域与政策和业务相结合，以解决复杂的清洁能源问题，并确定转型研究领域。 通过这一基本结构，IGERT解决了满足日益增长的能源需求的紧迫社会挑战，而不会对环境产生进一步的负面影响。只有通过大学、工业和地方政府与高技能、受过广泛教育、具有全球意识的领导层的合作，才能制定这样的解决方案。 这种伙伴关系在城市地区具有很大的经济发展潜力，因为该部门有训练有素的劳动力、支持性的政府和有远见的工业基础。通过工业创新伙伴、知识产权开发和创造就业机会的快速技术转让，促进与工业界的密切互动。 重点是通过清洁能源研究、新业务、训练有素的劳动力发展、公平和包容来扩大经济。 计划战略包括跨学科，综合研究和教育培训，模块化的清洁能源课程在校园和在线传播，多样性和包容性。 能源收集、储存、保护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了回应。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。

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.