Collaborative Research: NRT-INFEWS: Sustainable Food, Energy, and Water Systems (SFEWS)

需要大片土地来满足人口日益增加的地球对粮食、能源和水（FEW）的需求。这可能导致具有挑战性的土地使用竞争，当地的少数需要不能满足目前的土地使用做法。例如，在生产太阳能的地区，标准的太阳能电池板可以全天在农田上投射巨大的地面阴影，这极大地阻碍了作物生长。迫切需要为可持续的FEW系统（SFEWS）开发解决方案，在该系统中，可以通过合作而不是竞争性地使用可用土地来满足粮食，能源和水的需求。一种方法是利用整个太阳光谱，最大限度地提高给定土地面积的资源产量。实现这些解决方案需要有效的跨学科教育和培训，为可持续太阳能经济的领导创造资源和人力资本。这个国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）奖普渡大学和佛罗里达A M大学将形成一个跨学科的培训计划，将培养研究生的技能，生产可持续供应的食物，能源和水（少数）人口更稠密的地球。该项目预计将培养48名博士生，其中包括24名资助学员，来自农学、农业和生物工程、电气和计算机工程、化学工程、材料科学和工程、化学和农业经济学。SFEWS项目旨在利用当地太阳能满足当地的粮食、能源和水管理需求。实现这一状态需要研究高度复杂的系统，这些系统具有以前未被认识到的相互依赖性，然后通过结合农业，工程和科学等不同领域的基本科学和技术原理来开发创新的解决方案。在许多可能性中，将根据其全系统的简单性、经济影响和环境足迹，并考虑到政府政策和社会影响来确定解决方案。进行这些研究的SFEWS小组将提供一支受过跨学科技能培训的劳动力队伍，以确定导致土地竞争的根本因素，提出创新解决方案，然后作为研究人员，商业和工业领导人，政策制定者，教师和企业家领导全球实施。新的科学和技术知识，独特的系统分析方法和工具，从这个程序开发的影响将远远超出SFEWS NRT。该团队将开发新的跨学科课程和培训模块，通过nanoHUB.org等工具在全球范围内传播。通过精心策划的多样性招聘和参与，SFEWS NRT将帮助代表性不足的学生和女学生帮助建立可持续的FEW经济。该计划的成功实施将引入一个新的模式，即当地的少数人需求可以越来越多地通过当地的太阳能来满足，以实现高度弹性的经济，美国在可持续地满足少数人需求方面处于世界领先地位。NSF研究培训计划（NRT）旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、新的潜在变革性的STEM研究生教育培训模式。该培训跟踪致力于在高优先级的跨学科研究领域的STEM研究生的有效培训，通过全面的培训模式是创新的，以证据为基础，并与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求保持一致.该项目是由路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划共同资助. LSAMP计划支持全面，循证和持续的方法，以扩大历史上在STEM中代表性不足的种族和民族群体的学生的参与。

Large areas of land are needed to satisfy the food, energy, and water (FEW) needs of an increasingly populated earth. This can lead to challenging land use competition where local FEW needs cannot be met with current land use practice. For instance, in areas where solar energy is produced, standard solar panels can cast large ground shadows on agricultural land throughout the day, which greatly impedes crop growth. An urgent need exists to develop solutions for sustainable FEW systems (SFEWS) where food, energy, and water needs can be met using available land collaboratively rather than competitively. One approach could be to use the entire solar spectrum to maximize resource production from a given land area. Achieving such solutions requires effective interdisciplinary education and training to generate the resources and human capital for leadership for a sustainable solar economy. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award to Purdue University and Florida A&M University will form an interdisciplinary traineeship program that will train graduate students in the skills needed to produce sustainable supplies of food, energy and water (FEW) for a more heavily populated earth. The project anticipates training 48 PhD students, including 24 funded trainees, from agronomy, agricultural and biological engineering, electrical and computer engineering, chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, chemistry, and agricultural economics.The SFEWS project aims to meet food, energy and water management needs locally with local solar energy. Achieving this state requires studying highly complex systems with previously unappreciated interdependencies and then developing innovative solutions by combining basic scientific and technical principles from the diverse fields of agriculture, engineering, and science. Out of many possibilities, solutions will be identified based on their system-wide simplicity, economic impact, and environmental footprint, in light of government policy and social impact. The SFEWS cohorts performing these studies will provide a workforce trained in interdisciplinary skills to identify underlying factors leading to competition for land, to suggest innovative solutions, and then lead in global implementation as researchers, business and industry leaders, policy makers, teachers and entrepreneurs. The new scientific and technical knowledge, unique systems analysis methods, and tools developed from this program will have impact well beyond the SFEWS NRT. This team will develop new interdisciplinary courses and training modules, globally disseminated through vehicles such as nanoHUB.org. Through well-planned diversity recruiting and engagement, the SFEWS NRT will help underrepresented and women students to help forge a sustainable FEW economy. Successful execution of this program will introduce a new paradigm where local FEW needs can increasingly be met with local solar energy for a highly resilient economy, with the U.S. serving as a world leader in sustainably meeting FEW needs.The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The Traineeship Track is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary research areas, through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.This project is co-funded by the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program. The LSAMP program supports comprehensive, evidence-based, and sustained approaches to broadening participation of students from racial and ethnic groups historically underrepresented in STEM.