Planning Grant for a Resource Clearinghouse for Sustained Energy Technologies

该项目旨在为先进技术环境教育中心（ATEEC）内的可持续能源技术资源交换所进行规划。资源交换中心的目的是满足学生、教育工作者和工商界的需要，通过两年制学院和其他教育机构向可持续能源领域提供知情、合格和训练有素的技术人员。资源交换中心包括专业发展和支持教育工作者，课程和教育材料的等级10-14，和收集和传播工具，可持续能源资源，包括最佳方案的做法，阐明课程2+2+2方案，信息从NSF ATE中心开发可持续能源课程，和信息与外部机构和研究机构合作。智力优势：在可持续能源领域不断发展和改进的教学方法和技术进步需要集中精力，以确保高影响力的教育实践的理解和利用。结合高中，社区学院，ATE中心，商业和工业，政府机构，国家实验室和四年制学院和大学的领导，知识，专业知识和资源，28个合作伙伴有能力进行规划，开发和实施ATEEC中心内的NSF可持续能源资源中心。在提供必要的课程和教师培训，以提供熟练工人和训练有素的技术人员的同时，资源中心将劳动力需求和先进技术的相关研究转移到教育环境中。更广泛的影响：可持续能源技术领域正在演变，需要从教育到工业以及从工业到教育的信息流动。从氢燃料电池到可持续建筑，该领域是动态的。由于对能源使用的需求不断增加，并且由于能源使用以不可逆转的方式影响环境，能源效率/可再生能源和可持续实践领域是一个快速增长的先进技术环境领域，需要大量的科学，技术，工程和数学知识。它是预计将增加大量就业机会的12个行业之一，对经济产生重大影响，并影响其他行业的增长。它正在被需要新技能的技术和创新所改变。

This project is designed to plan for a Resource Clearinghouse for Sustainable Energy Technologies within the Advanced Technology Environment Education Center (ATEEC). The resource clearinghouse is intended to meet the needs of students, educators, and business and industry to supply the sustainable energy field with informed, qualified, and trained technicians through two-year colleges and other educational institutions. The resource clearinghouse includes professional development and support for educators, curriculum and educational materials for grades 10-14, and a collection and dissemination vehicle for sustainable energy resources including best program practices, articulated curricula for 2+2+2 programs, information from NSF ATE centers that develop sustainable energy curricula, and information about working with outside agencies and research institutions. Intellectual Merit: Evolving and improved instructional methodology and technical advances in the field of sustainable energy require a focused effort to assure that high impact educational practices are understood and utilized. Combining the leadership, knowledge, expertise, and resources of high schools, community colleges, ATE Centers, business and industry, government agencies, national laboratories, and four-year colleges and universities, the 28 partners are well-positioned to conduct the planning, development, and implementation of an NSF Resource Center for Sustainable Energy within the ATEEC Center. While providing for the curriculum and faculty training necessary to provide skilled workers and highly trained technicians, the resource center moves relevant research in workforce needs and advanced technology to the education setting. Broader Impacts: The field of sustainable energy technologies is evolving and requires the flow of information from education to industry and from industry to education. From hydrogen fuel cells to sustainable building, the field is dynamic. Because of ever-increasing demand for energy use and because energy use impacts the environment in irreversible ways, the field of energy efficiency/renewable energy and sustainable practices are a rapidly growing advanced technology environmental area that requires considerable knowledge of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It is one of 12 sectors that is projected to add a substantial number of jobs, have a significant impact on the economy, and impact the growth of other industries. It is being transformed by technology and innovation requiring new skill sets.