REU Site: Renewable Energy Generation and Storage

REU 站点：可再生能源发电和存储

• 批准号: 2349546
• 负责人: Jeffrey Mativetsky
• 金额: $ 42.62万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Binghamton
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-04-01 至 2027-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2349546&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Renewable; Energy; Generation

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARYAddressing the rising demand for clean energy requires a skilled workforce that can develop, deploy, and manage renewable energy technologies. Despite this need, most science and engineering undergraduates have limited opportunities to gain experience with energy materials and technologies, research methods, interdisciplinary collaboration, scientific communication, or career planning to equip them for clean energy careers. Funded by the Division of Materials Research, this Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site addresses these training gaps while helping to attract and retain promising students for eventual careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and the energy sector. Towards this end, this REU site integrates undergraduates in energy-focused interdisciplinary research experiences and offers mentoring, career guidance, and training in skills needed to thrive in STEM professions. Insight into renewable energy careers is provided through interactions with local renewable energy companies and New Energy New York, a newly awarded facility aimed at making the Binghamton region a hub for battery development. The recruitment of diverse student cohorts that include students from schools with limited research infrastructure is supported by partnerships with nearby colleges and six historically black colleges and universities.TECHNICAL SUMMARYThis REU site aims to stimulate student interest in interdisciplinary research, prepare students for careers in science and engineering (with a focus on renewable energy), and expand the diversity of students engaged in research. Working with faculty spanning four science and engineering departments and teams in the NorthEast Center for Chemical Energy Storage, the Center for Autonomous Solar Power, and the Advanced Catalysis for Energy Sustainability Center, students tackle fundamental research problems in renewable energy generation and storage. Using experimental and computational approaches, students engage in research aimed at reducing the cost of solar power, harvesting wasted thermal and mechanical energy, enhancing battery performance, and generating alternative fuels. Students also gain exposure to clean energy industry careers, manufacturing, and prototyping processes through research collaborations, facility tours, and workshops in partnership with local clean energy companies and New Energy New York. Students gain further preparation for STEM and clean energy careers through workshops on research ethics, science communication, professional skills, materials characterization, and the energy landscape.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.

非技术总结对清洁能源的需求不断上升需要一支熟练的劳动力，可以开发，部署和管理可再生能源技术。尽管需要这种需要，大多数科学和工程本科生仍有有限的机会来获得能源材料和技术，研究方法，跨学科合作，科学沟通或职业计划，以使他们从事清洁能源职业。这项研究经验由材料研究部资助，本科生（REU）网站涉及这些培训差距，同时帮助吸引和留住有前途的学生，从事科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）和能源领域的最终职业。为此，此REU网站将本科生融合在以能源为中心的跨学科研究经验中，并提供指导，职业指导以及在STEM专业中蓬勃发展所需的技能培训。通过与当地可再生能源公司和纽约新能源公司的互动来提供对可再生能源职业的洞察力，这是一个新获得的设施，旨在使宾厄姆顿地区成为电池开发的枢纽。与附近大学和六所历史上黑人的大学和大学的伙伴关系的支持，包括有限研究基础设施的学生的多样化学生同伙的招聘。技术摘要旨在激发学生对跨学科研究的兴趣，旨在使学生对科学和工程的职业做好准备（侧重于研究生的能量），并扩大了竞争能力的研究，并促进了多样性的学生，并启动了各种各样的学生。与东北化学能源存储中心，自主太阳能中心以及能源可持续性中心的高级催化中心的教职员工一起工作，学生解决可再生能源产生和存储中的基本研究问题。使用实验和计算方法，学生参与旨在降低太阳能成本，收获浪费的热和机械能，增强电池性能并产生替代燃料的研究。学生还通过研究合作，设施之旅和讲习班与当地的清洁能源公司和纽约新能源公司合作，获得了清洁能源行业的职业，制造和原型制作过程。学生通过有关研究伦理学，科学沟通，专业技能，材料表征和能量景观的研讨会为STEM和清洁能源职业提供进一步的准备。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响来通过评估来支持的。