Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education Support Center (CREATE-SC)

可再生能源先进技术支持中心专注于可再生能源领域的技术人员教育。该支持中心是由NSF之前资助的三个项目共同发展而成的：峡谷学院的Create区域中心、麦迪逊地区技术学院的可再生能源技术职业教育(CEET)联盟和莱恩社区学院的西北水与能源教育研究所(NWEEI)。私人投资机构及其各自的机构拥有丰富的经验，帮助其他学院和教职员工建立新的可再生能源项目。通过利用这些集体知识和经验，Create Support Center将帮助其他人更快地攀登学习曲线，培育和推广强大的可再生能源计划，以满足激增的劳动力需求。人们迫切需要支持新的可再生能源项目，帮助教师作为专业人员发展，并为他们提供高质量的教学材料。CREATE支持中心的目标是通过支持两年制的大学可再生能源项目来促进可再生能源领域的发展。这一目标将通过五个主要目标实现：1)为希望启动或改进可再生能源技术教育项目的潜在个人投资机构提供支持和指导；2)建立和支持更多的可再生能源行业、商业和学术合作伙伴关系；3)促进技术人员的职业生涯和可再生能源的知名度以及可再生能源的公众形象；4)解决技术人员在不断发展、融合和新兴的可再生能源技术工作场所所需的知识、技能和能力；以及5)筛选、验证、更新和广泛传播示范可再生能源材料、课程和由ATE中心和项目以及其他适当来源改编或设计的教学实践。

The Support Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technology is focused on technician education in the realm of renewable energy. The Support Center has grown from the collaboration of three previously funded NSF efforts: The CREATE Regional Center at College of the Canyons, the Career Education for Renewable Energy Technology (CERET) consortium at Madison Area Technical College, and the Northwest Water and Energy Education Institute (NWEEI) at Lane Community College. The PIs and their respective institutions have a wealth of experience assisting other colleges and faculty members to establish new renewable energy programs. By leveraging this collective knowledge and experience, the CREATE Support Center will help others to climb the learning curve faster, cultivating and promoting robust renewable energy programs to meet surging workforce demands. There is a strong need to support new renewable energy programs, to help faculty to develop as professionals, and also to provide them with high quality instructional materials.The goal of the CREATE Support Center is to advance the field of renewable energy by supporting two-year college renewable energy programs. This goal will be accomplished through five key objectives: 1) Providing support and mentoring for prospective PIs that wish to start or improve educational programs in a renewable energy technology; 2) Establishing and supporting additional renewable energy industry, business and academic partnerships; 3) Promoting technician careers and visibility and the public image of renewable energy; 4) Addressing technician knowledge, skills, and competencies needed for the evolving, converging, and emerging renewable energy technical workplace; and 5) Screening, validating, updating, and broadly distributing exemplary renewable energy materials, curricula, and pedagogical practices adapted or designed by ATE centers and projects and other appropriate sources.