CREST Center for Energy and Sustainability

CREST 能源与可持续发展中心

• 批准号: 0932421
• 负责人: Darrell Guillaume
• 金额: $ 500万
• 依托单位: California State L A University Auxiliary Services Inc.
• 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 2016-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0932421&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CREST; Center; Energy; Sustainability

The California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State L.A.) proposes to establish a new CREST Center for Energy and Sustainability (CEaS). CEaS embodies a new vision for a new CREST center that builds on existing strengths of Cal State L.A.?s Colleges of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology (ECST) and Natural and Social Sciences (NSS). The Center?s mission is threefold: 1) to increase the number of underrepresented students in STEM fields and, especially, to put them on a path towards the professoriate; 2) to conduct innovative, multidisciplinary, research in energy and sustainability; and 3) to increase public awareness and engage policymakers in this nascent movement. CSLA will be have a consortium of partners that includes representatives from institutions (i.e., middle and high schools, and a community college) with highly diverse student populations, public and private Ph.D.-granting institutions, the largest energy providers and utilities in the U.S., private industry, the Los Angeles Mayor?s office, and national laboratories. Collaborating with these institutions helps us pursue a vision of conducting cutting edge research and transforming sustainable energy from environmental chic to accessible technologies that excite 6th-graders and benefit society. Under the unifying theme of Energy and Sustainability, the four center subprojects will engage in research to address the three cornerstones of energy sustainability: diversity in energy sources, efficiency in energy use, and long-term sustainability. The ?biofuels combustion? subproject will immediately tackle research projects to make current combustion more efficient and less polluting. The ?photovoltaics? subproject will work on developing highly efficient and inexpensive photovoltaic cells. The ?fuel cells? subproject is interested in creating micro-fuel cells for applications in portable electronics. Finally, the ?carbon sequestration? component is interested in understanding the impacts of carbon capture and storage on the environment. Together, these four subprojects have a good mix of scientists and engineers with both short- and long-term research agendas.

洛杉矶加州州立大学(加州州立大学洛杉矶分校)建议建立一个新的CREST能源和可持续发展中心(CEAS)。CEAS体现了建立一个新的CREST中心的新愿景，该中心建立在加州州立大学洛杉矶分校？S工程、计算机科学与技术学院(ECST)和自然及社会科学学院(NSS)现有优势的基础上。S中心的使命有三个方面：1)增加STEM领域中代表性不足的学生数量，特别是让他们走上通往教授的道路；2)在能源和可持续发展方面进行创新、多学科的研究；3)提高公众意识，并让政策制定者参与到这一新兴运动中来。CSLA将有一个合作伙伴财团，其中包括来自学生人口高度多样化的机构(即初中和高中和社区大学)、公立和私立授予博士学位的机构、美国最大的能源供应商和公用事业公司、私营行业、洛杉矶市长S办公室和国家实验室的代表。与这些机构的合作帮助我们追求一个愿景，即进行尖端研究，将可持续能源从环境时尚转变为可获得的技术，以激发六年级学生的兴奋并造福社会。在能源和可持续发展的统一主题下，四个中心子项目将进行研究，以解决能源可持续发展的三个基石：能源多样性、能源使用效率和长期可持续发展。生物燃料燃烧？子项目将立即处理研究项目，以使当前的燃烧更高效、更少污染。光伏？子项目将致力于开发高效、廉价的光伏电池。燃料电池？子项目对制造用于便携式电子产品的微型燃料电池感兴趣。最后，碳封存？该部门有兴趣了解碳捕获和封存对环境的影响。总而言之，这四个子项目有很好的科学家和工程师的组合，既有短期研究议程，也有长期研究议程。