INFEWS/T4: The INFEWS-ER: a Virtual Resource Center Enabling Graduate Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems

该项目将为完成食品、能源和水(少数)研究生的体验提供一个虚拟环境，从而促进人力资本的产生，这些人力资本能够应对食品、能源和水之间的重大挑战。INFEWS-ER将通过将食品、能源和水的基础科学与解决跨学科问题的技能和知识以及最新的计算建模和分析工具和数据相结合，提供针对少数人的创新的教育资源(ER)。这些人将能够分析国家、大陆和全球范围内的情景。INFEWS-ER将提供证书课程，在这些课程中，很少有研究生能够展示他们在跨学科思维、大数据、计算建模和分析方面的能力，从而获得证明他们成就水平的证书。此外，INFEWS-ER将提供一个教师奖学金计划，以激励一个学术网络，为毕业生提供一个脚手架学习环境，有效地为INFEWS的研究、教育和培训创造一个中心。拟议的工作促进了现有教师和当前研究生(他们将成为未来的教师、实践者和政策制定者)从跨学科到跨学科培训的过渡，通过一个虚拟资源中心，该中心将在项目团队和项目时间表之外访问。学生将发展跨学科思维的系统过程。他们将处于最好的位置，以解决重大的社会问题，特别是那些与食物、能源和水有关的问题。新的跨学科解决方案将会出现，这些解决方案对更广泛的一系列限制和理想很敏感。这些解决方案将反映技术、社会经济和社会政治结构的最佳融合。项目影响包括下一代学者的教育和劳动力发展、多机构合作以及加强跨学科研究和教育的基础设施。INFEWS-ER还有可能影响未来跨学科研究和教育的实施方式，不仅传播学习单元，而且传播从中心实施中获得的评价和经验教训。

This project will provide a virtual environment for completing the Food, Energy, and Water (FEW) graduate student experience, thereby facilitating the generation of human capital who can address grand challenges at the nexus of food, energy, and water. The INFEWS-ER will provide educational resources (ER) targeting innovations at the nexus of FEW by combining the fundamental sciences of food, energy, and water with the skills and knowledge of interdisciplinary problem solving and the latest computational modeling and analysis tools and data. These individuals will be capable of analyzing scenarios at the scale of nations, continents, and the globe. The INFEWS-ER will offer certificate programs where FEW Graduate Scholars can demonstrate their capabilities in interdisciplinary thinking, Big Data, and computational modeling and analysis, thereby receiving a credential demonstrating their level of achievement. Further, The INFEWS-ER will offer a faculty fellowship program to incentivize a network of academics that will provide a scaffolded learning environment for graduates, effectively creating a hub for INFEWS research, education, and training.The proposed work facilitates a transition from interdisciplinary to transdisciplinary training of existing faculty and current graduate students (who will become future faculty, practitioners, and policy makers) through a virtual resource center that will be accessible beyond the project team and project timeframe. Students will develop systematic processes for interdisciplinary thinking. They will be in the best possible position to target large societal problems, especially those at the nexus of food, energy, and water. New, interdisciplinary solutions will emerge, solutions that are sensitive to a wider array of constraints and ideals. Those solutions will reflect the best possible integration of technological, socio-economic, and socio-political constructs. Project impacts include educational and workforce development of the next generation of academics, multi-institution collaboration, and enhanced infrastructure for transdisciplinary research and education. The INFEWS-ER also has the potential to influence the way interdisciplinary research and education is implemented in the future through the archival dissemination of not only learning modules, but also the evaluations and lessons learned from the implementation of the center.