RCN-SEES: Sustainable Energy Systems

该奖项由美国国家科学基金会的可持续发展科学、工程和教育（SEES）活动资助，旨在解决创造一个可持续发展世界的挑战。这个研究协调网络（RCN）可持续能源项目汇集了一个多学科团队，包括来自亚利桑那州立大学、东北大学、密歇根大学和罗切斯特理工学院的美国学者，以及来自卡迪夫大学（英国）、月球山脉和Makerere大学（乌干达）的学者，以及美国环境保护署和美国陆军工程兵团的研究人员。基于强联系和弱联系的概念，该网络将在可持续能源系统的利益相关者之间建立联系，分小组侧重于1)能源技术创新，2)大规模制造、使用和报废的可持续性影响，以及3)能源和人类发展。将通过工业、政府和发展中国家的驻地来发展小组之间和小组内部的联系，通过这些驻地，研究生获得必要的隐性知识，以连接创新系统的各个阶段。该项目发展可持续能源系统所需的知识和人力资本，以及各种技术领域所需的跨学科培训机制。

This award is funded under NSF's Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) activities, which aim to address the challenges of creating a sustainable world. This Research Coordination Network (RCN) sustainable energy project brings together a multidisciplinary team including U.S. academics from Arizona State University, Northeastern University, University of Michigan and Rochester Institute of Technology , together with academics from Cardiff University (U.K) and Mountains of the Moon and Makerere Universities (Uganda) as well as researchers at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Based on concepts of strong and weak ties, the network will build ties among stakeholders for sustainable energy systems with subgroups focused on 1) innovations in energy technologies, 2) sustainability implications of manufacture, use and end-of-life at scale, and 3) energy and human development. Ties between and within groups will be developed through industrial, government and developing country residencies through which graduate students acquire tacit knowledge necessary to bridge various stages of the innovation system.This project develops knowledge and the human capital necessary for sustainable energy systems as well as mechanisms for interdisciplinary training necessary in a variety of technical domains.