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。支持中心已经从三个以前资助的NSF努力的合作：在创建区域中心在威斯康星大学，在麦迪逊地区技术学院的职业教育可再生能源技术（CERET）财团，和西北水和能源教育研究所（NWEEI）在巷社区学院。PI及其各自的机构在协助其他学院和教师建立新的可再生能源项目方面拥有丰富的经验。通过利用这些集体知识和经验，CREATE支持中心将帮助其他人更快地攀登学习曲线，培养和推广强大的可再生能源计划，以满足不断增长的劳动力需求。有一个强烈的需要，以支持新的可再生能源计划，以帮助教师发展为专业人士，并为他们提供高质量的教学材料。创建支持中心的目标是通过支持两年制大学可再生能源计划，推进可再生能源领域。这一目标将通过五个关键目标来实现：1）为希望启动或改进可再生能源技术教育计划的潜在PI提供支持和指导; 2）建立和支持额外的可再生能源行业，商业和学术伙伴关系; 3）促进技术人员的职业生涯和知名度以及可再生能源的公众形象; 4）解决技术人员的知识，技能和不断发展，融合和新兴的可再生能源技术工作场所所需的能力;和5）筛选、验证、更新和广泛分发示范性可再生能源材料、课程，以及由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.