REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Sustainable Energy (U-RISE)

这个REU网站：密歇根大学迪尔伯恩分校的可持续能源本科生研究（U-RISE），旨在通过研究基于可持续能源的电力系统来教育新一代工程师和科学家。学生以小组形式参与研究项目，特别强调可持续能源相关的技术和工程，旨在提高经济效率；改善社会福利；降低能源成本；支持分布式可持续能源即插即用；提高我国电网基础设施的能力、适应性、可扩展性、弹性、安全性和可用性。该项目将重点放在让本科生接触尖端的可持续能源技术上，让他们与密歇根大学迪尔伯恩分校的教师、研究生和当地行业导师一起解决现实世界的工程问题。综合研究和教育计划将产生重大而广泛的影响：(1)密歇根大学迪尔伯恩分校将接待30名REU学生，他们来自不同的背景和经验，他们将直接并立即受益于参与分析，计算和实验项目的组合。(2)这些项目的研究成果将有助于我国当前和未来重建传统电网的计划，并适应可持续能源的高度参与。(3)该REU网站将解决妇女和少数民族在STEM领域代表性不足的全国性问题，更具体地说，是在可持续能源领域。(4)这个REU网站将为那些通常没有这样机会的人提供研究经验，特别是女性，代表性不足的少数民族，来自研究机会有限的非工程学院机构的参与者，以及表现优异的低收入学生。拥有一个更多元化的工程和科学教授将极大地造福社会，不仅在密歇根州东南部，而且在全国范围内，通过促进少数民族更公平地参与工程和科学学科。(5)该REU将利用与区域和国家机构的长期教育和研究伙伴关系；(6)从该REU项目中吸取的经验教训将在各种媒体上传播，以达到更广泛的受众。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Sustainable Energy (U-RISE) at the University of Michigan Dearborn, is designed to educate a new generation of engineers and scientists by conducting research in sustainable energy-based electric power systems. Student participants work in teams on research projects with a special emphasis on sustainable energy-related technology and engineering that aim to promote economic efficiency; improve social welfare; reduce energy cost; support plug-and-play of distributed sustainable energy; and improve the capability, adaptability, scalability, resiliency, safety, security, and usability that our nation's power grid infrastructure can provide. The program places an emphasis on exposing undergraduates to cutting-edge sustainable energy technology by letting them solve real-world engineering problems together with University of Michigan-Dearborn faculty, graduate students, and local industry mentors.The integrated research and educational plan will have significant broader impacts: (1) The University of Michigan Dearborn will host thirty REU students, drawn from diverse backgrounds and experience, who will directly and immediately benefit by participating in a combination of analytic, computational, and experimental projects. (2) The research findings of these projects will contribute to our nation's current and future plans for reconstructing the legacy power grid and accommodating the high participation of sustainable energy sources. (3) This REU site will address the nationwide problem of the underrepresentation of women and minorities in STEM and more specifically in the field of sustainable energy. (4) This REU site will offer research experiences to those who may not normally have such an opportunity, particularly women, underrepresented minorities, participants from non-engineering-college institutions with limited research opportunities, and high-performing low-income students. Having a more diverse engineering and science professoriate will significantly benefit society, not only in Southeast Michigan but nationally, by promoting a more equitable participation of minorities in the engineering and scientific disciplines. (5) This REU will leverage long-term educational and research partnerships with regional and national institutions; and (6) The lessons learned from this REU program will be disseminated in diverse media to reach broader audiences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.