CREST Center for Energy and Sustainability

加州州立大学洛杉矶分校提议建立一个新的CREST能源与可持续发展中心（CEaS）。CEaS体现了一个新的CREST中心的新愿景，该中心建立在加州州立大学洛杉矶分校的现有优势之上。工程、计算机科学与技术学院（ECST）和自然与社会科学学院（NSS）。中心吗?它的使命有三个方面：1)增加STEM领域中代表性不足的学生的数量，特别是让他们走上成为教授的道路；2)开展能源和可持续发展方面的创新、多学科研究；3)提高公众意识，让政策制定者参与这一新生运动。CSLA将拥有一个由合作伙伴组成的联盟，其中包括来自学生群体高度多样化的机构（即中学、高中和社区大学）、公立和私立博士学位授予机构、美国最大的能源供应商和公用事业公司、私营企业、洛杉矶市长等的代表。美国办公室和国家实验室。与这些机构合作，有助于我们追求进行前沿研究的愿景，并将可持续能源从环境时尚转化为可访问的技术，使六年级学生兴奋并造福社会。在能源与可持续发展的统一主题下，四个中心子项目将致力于解决能源可持续性的三大基石：能源多样性、能源使用效率和长期可持续性。的吗?生物燃料燃烧吗?子项目将立即着手研究项目，使目前的燃烧更有效，更少污染。光伏发电?子项目将致力于开发高效、廉价的光伏电池。的吗?燃料电池吗?子项目的兴趣是创造微型燃料电池应用于便携式电子设备。最后，？碳封存?组分有兴趣了解碳捕获和储存对环境的影响。总之，这四个子项目有很好的科学家和工程师，他们有短期和长期的研究议程。

The California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State L.A.) proposes to establish a new CREST Center for Energy and Sustainability (CEaS). CEaS embodies a new vision for a new CREST center that builds on existing strengths of Cal State L.A.?s Colleges of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology (ECST) and Natural and Social Sciences (NSS). The Center?s mission is threefold: 1) to increase the number of underrepresented students in STEM fields and, especially, to put them on a path towards the professoriate; 2) to conduct innovative, multidisciplinary, research in energy and sustainability; and 3) to increase public awareness and engage policymakers in this nascent movement. CSLA will be have a consortium of partners that includes representatives from institutions (i.e., middle and high schools, and a community college) with highly diverse student populations, public and private Ph.D.-granting institutions, the largest energy providers and utilities in the U.S., private industry, the Los Angeles Mayor?s office, and national laboratories. Collaborating with these institutions helps us pursue a vision of conducting cutting edge research and transforming sustainable energy from environmental chic to accessible technologies that excite 6th-graders and benefit society. Under the unifying theme of Energy and Sustainability, the four center subprojects will engage in research to address the three cornerstones of energy sustainability: diversity in energy sources, efficiency in energy use, and long-term sustainability. The ?biofuels combustion? subproject will immediately tackle research projects to make current combustion more efficient and less polluting. The ?photovoltaics? subproject will work on developing highly efficient and inexpensive photovoltaic cells. The ?fuel cells? subproject is interested in creating micro-fuel cells for applications in portable electronics. Finally, the ?carbon sequestration? component is interested in understanding the impacts of carbon capture and storage on the environment. Together, these four subprojects have a good mix of scientists and engineers with both short- and long-term research agendas.