Conference: Workshop on Mobilizing Our Universities for Education on Energy Use, Carbon Emissions, and Climate Change

会议：动员大学开展能源使用、碳排放和气候变化教育研讨会

• 批准号: 2402605
• 负责人: Bruce Logan
• 金额: $ 4.9万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 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: 2024-02-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2402605&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Workshop; Mobilizing; Our; Universities

This project aims to serve the national interest by developing and disseminating curricula for undergraduate education focused on carbon usage. Understanding and quantifying energy use is important for making effective changes in our daily energy use. This workshop will bring together the environmental engineering community to organize a concerted STEM education effort about energy use, carbon emissions, and environmental change. The environmental engineering community has taken on several grand challenges over the past century, beginning with wastewater treatment and sanitation, then moving into topics spanning water treatment and disinfection, cleanup of hazardous chemicals, and indoor and outdoor air pollution. The next challenge will be addressing the magnitude and impact of greenhouse gas emissions due to fossil fuel use and land use changes. Developing and disseminating teaching curricula on these topics will be addressed in the workshop.The conference will gather experts in carbon use along with faculty and instructors in environmental engineering to examine how energy use can be integrated into undergraduate STEM education. A series of presentations will begin with a review of existing programs, then will address critical elements such as environmental and climate justice, carbon sequestration, and sustainable climate solutions. Breakout groups are planned to engage participants in identifying next steps in their institutional contexts to incorporate carbon and energy use topics into undergraduate environmental engineering curricula and to prepare faculty and instructors for implementing curricular changes at their institutions. The NSF IUSE: EDU program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students.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.

该项目旨在通过开发和传播专注于碳使用的本科教育课程来为国家利益提供服务。 理解和量化能源使用对于在我们的日常能源使用中进行有效变化很重要。 该研讨会将召集环境工程社区，以组织有关能源使用，碳排放和环境变化的协调STEM教育工作。 在过去的一个世纪中，环境工程社区从废水处理和卫生开始时面临着一些巨大的挑战，然后进入跨越水处理和消毒的主题，清理危险化学物质以及室内和室外空气污染。 下一个挑战将是解决由于化石燃料使用和土地利用变化而引起的温室气体排放的幅度和影响。 研讨会将解决有关这些主题的教学课程的发展和传播课程。会议将与环境工程的教师和教师一起聚集碳使用专家，以研究如何将能源使用纳入本科STEM教育。 一系列演讲将从对现有计划的审查开始，然后将解决诸如环境和气候正义，碳固存和可持续气候解决方案之类的关键要素。 计划分组小组与参与者一起识别其机构环境中的下一步，以将碳和能源使用主题纳入本科环境工程课程中，并准备教师和教师在其机构实施课程变更。 NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。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知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准通过评估来获得支持的。