ARI-R2: Renovating a Core Facility to Support Research in the Newly Funded CREST Center for Energy and Sustainability

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。加州州立大学洛杉矶分校（CSULA）工程、计算机科学与技术学院（ECST）将对9500平方英尺的研究空间进行翻新、重新配置和现代化改造，以创建一个能源与可持续性研究（CEaS）核心设施，以支持新成立的国家科学基金会（nsf）支持的CREST能源与可持续性中心的研究活动。能源和可持续发展的研究是ECST的核心多学科，多研究者活动，物理学，生物学，化学，计算机科学，工程和技术的教师合作。实验室将在CSULA校园的工程和技术大楼内进行翻新。该建筑建于1956年，并于2000年进行了翻新，在CSULA最近关注基础研究之前，它被设计为非研究设施，因此不足以满足当前教师研究人员的需求。通过这个项目，五个互不相连的空间将被改造成三个多用户共享的子设施，包括核心能源和可持续发展研究设施：环境、材料和先进技术。翻新的重点是为更多的项目和教职员工和学生研究人员扩大空间，并重新配置进行研究所需的空间（例如，研究工作台、通风柜、燃气管道、高压电线和网络基础设施）。知识价值：通过这项革新将加强的研究将解决一些基本问题，这些问题有可能增加高效、非化石燃料能源的可用性，同时促进可持续性和管理的思想。整修后的设施将支持CSULA目前在燃料电池、先进光伏材料、生物燃料和燃烧以及碳封存方面的研究。新的核心研究设施将使CEaS的教师和学生能够在新装修的设施中进行创新研究，这非常有利于多学科研究。更广泛的影响：在翻新的实验室中进行的活动将有助于扩大CSULA校园内科学、工程和基础研究的参与。CSULA是一个全面的，非博士学位。授予大学，这将利用新的设施，让大部分本科生参与研究。CEaS将用于夏季研究项目，其中包括合作机构（初高中和社区大学），其中有大量未被充分代表的少数民族学生。本科生暑期研究经历和教师研究经历参与者也将在该设施进行研究。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology (ECST) at the California State University Los Angeles (CSULA) will renovate, reconfigure, and modernize 9,500 square feet of research space to create a Core Facility for Research in Energy and Sustainability (CEaS) to support research activities for the new NSF-supported CREST Center for Energy and Sustainability. Research in energy and sustainability is a core multi-disciplinary, multi-investigator activity within ECST, where faculty from physics, biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, and technology collaborate. Labs will be renovated within the Engineering and Technology building on CSULA's campus. The building, constructed in 1956 and renovated in 2000, was designed as a non-research facility before CSULA's more recent focus on basic research, and therefore is inadequate to meet the needs of current faculty researchers. Through this award, five disjointed spaces will be renovated and joined into three multi-user and shared subfacilities to comprise the core energy and sustainability research facility: Environment, Materials, and Advanced Technology. The renovations will focus on expanding space for more projects and faculty and student researchers, and reconfiguring of space (e.g., research benches, fume hoods, gas lines, high voltage electrical lines, and cyberinfrastructure) needed to conduct research.Intellectual Merit: The research that will be enhanced through this renovation address fundamental questions that have the potential to increase the availability of highly efficient, non-fossil-fuel-based energy, while promoting ideas of sustainability and stewardship. The renovated facility will support current research at CSULA in fuel cells, advanced photovoltaic materials, biofuels and combustion, and carbon sequestration. The new core research facility will enable CEaS faculty and students to conduct innovative research in a newly renovated facility that is highly conducive to multidisciplinary research. Broader Impacts: Activities conducted in the renovated laboratories will contribute to broadening participation in science and engineering and basic research on the CSULA campus. CSULA is a comprehensive, non-Ph.D. granting university, which will leverage the new facility to involve mostly undergraduate students in research. The CEaS will be used for summer research programs, which include partner institutions (middle and high schools and community colleges) with a large population of underrepresented minority students. Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates and Research Experiences for Teachers participants will also conduct research in this facility.