New, GK-12: Growing the Green Collar Workforce for the 21st Century

新，GK-12：培养 21 世纪的绿领劳动力

• 批准号: 0947929
• 负责人: Basil Nikolau
• 金额: $ 272.96万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-01 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0947929&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: New; GK; 12; Growing; Green

TITLE: New GK-12: Growing the green collar workforce for the 21st centuryINSTITUTION: Iowa State UniversityThis project will support graduate student fellows who will act as the human interface to motivationally communicate to middle school teachers and students the excitement and innovations that are the scientific underpinnings of today?s technologically savvy, modern society. The rationale for this program is the need to solidly ground this country's educators and young students in STEM-theme pedagogy. In the long-term such research-based education and training is a prerequisite for facing the emerging societal challenge to generate technologies that will maintain a sustainable standard of living, which ultimately will be dependent on renewable sources of energy and industrial materials. This program builds on Iowa State University's established scholarly infrastructures that are designed to be interdisciplinary and address key technology gaps for harnessing renewable energy sources (solar energy) and generate carbon-based energy and chemicals using atmospheric CO2 as the ultimate carbon-source. This interdisciplinary research integrates core themes that are grounded in STEM research, which include the fields of plant sciences, agro-engineering, biocatalysis, biochemical pathway discovery and metabolic engineering, bioinformatics, biomaterials, chemical catalysis, and mathematics. Broader impacts of the project include increased professional development opportunities for middle school science teachers; expanded educational and career opportunities for K12 students in STEM disciplines, especially those from underrepresented minorities and economically disadvantaged; benefits to US economy resulting from well-trained, globally competitive workforce; and recruitment of female and underrepresented minority graduate students to associated academic programs.

标题： 新GK-12：为21世纪培养绿色领劳动力机构： 爱荷华州州立大学这个项目将支持研究生研究员谁将作为人类界面，以激励沟通，以中学教师和学生的兴奋和创新，是今天的科学基础？现代社会的科技意识。 该计划的基本原理是需要在STEM主题教学法中为该国的教育工作者和年轻学生奠定坚实的基础。 从长远来看，这种以研究为基础的教育和培训是应对新出现的社会挑战的先决条件，即创造能够维持可持续生活水平的技术，而可持续生活水平最终将依赖于可再生能源和工业材料。 该计划建立在爱荷华州州立大学已建立的学术基础设施上，该基础设施旨在跨学科，解决利用可再生能源（太阳能）的关键技术差距，并使用大气CO2作为最终碳源产生碳基能源和化学品。这项跨学科研究整合了以STEM研究为基础的核心主题，包括植物科学，农业工程，生物催化，生物化学途径发现和代谢工程，生物信息学，生物材料，化学催化和数学等领域。 该项目的更广泛的影响包括增加中学科学教师的专业发展机会;扩大K12学生在STEM学科的教育和职业机会，特别是那些来自代表性不足的少数民族和经济弱势群体的学生;训练有素，具有全球竞争力的劳动力对美国经济的好处;以及女性和代表性不足的少数民族研究生的招聘相关的学术课程。