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

ARI-R2：翻新核心设施以支持新资助的 CREST 能源与可持续发展中心的研究

• 批准号: 0963539
• 负责人: Arturo Pacheco-Vega
• 金额: $ 173.5万
• 依托单位: California State L A University Auxiliary Services Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0963539&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ARI; R2; Renovating; Core; Facility

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.

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。工程，计算机科学和技术学院（ECST）在加州州立大学洛杉矶（CSULA）将翻新，重新配置和现代化的9,500平方英尺的研究空间，以创建一个核心设施研究能源和可持续性（CEaS），以支持研究活动的新NSF支持的CREST中心能源和可持续性。 能源和可持续发展研究是ECST内的核心多学科，多研究者活动，来自物理，生物，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，2000年翻新，在CSULA最近专注于基础研究之前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。 通过该奖项，五个脱节的空间将被翻新，并加入到三个多用户和共享的子设施，组成核心能源和可持续发展研究设施：环境，材料和先进技术。 翻新将集中在为更多的项目和教师和学生研究人员扩大空间，并重新配置空间（例如，知识价值：通过此次改造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理念。翻新后的设施将支持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：在翻修后的实验室开展的活动将有助于扩大对CSULA校园科学和工程以及基础研究的参与。CSULA是一个全面的，非博士。授予大学，这将利用新的设施，使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（初中和高中以及社区学院），这些机构拥有大量代表性不足的少数民族学生。本科生暑期研究经验和教师研究经验参与者也将在该设施进行研究。