IGERT: Solar Utilization Network (SUN)

这一综合性研究生教育与研究培训奖(IGERT)致力于从目前以化石燃料为基础的经济向通过光伏、太阳能-热能和光合作用驱动的生物能源方法获取太阳能的能源转型，将成为全球人类能源利用的重点。这三种技术太阳能转换方法的可扩展性、效率和经济性，以及可持续性政策和负责任的能源使用等社会因素，都是取得成功所必需的。该计划支持在不同规模的多个太阳能转换领域对不同学生进行跨学科培训，结合政策和社会理解，从而培养下一代公民-科学家、创新思想家和开明的政策制定者，他们能够引导社会走向可持续的能源未来。更广泛的影响：为了进一步加强对所有背景的学生的包容，SUN IGERT项目将利用与学校和招生人数较少的群体的项目达成的协议，特别是西班牙裔和美洲原住民，以降低对人数较少的少数族裔的障碍。有效的指导和以使用为灵感、以应用为导向的综合性研究项目将提高项目的留存率。该项目还将为一个新的能源博士项目奠定基础。我们项目的成功可以被国内和全球的其他机构效仿和采用，从而促进培养更多的学生，他们能够带领社会走向新的、可持续的能源未来。IGERT是一个NSF范围的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、选定学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在建立新的研究生教育和培训模式，为超越传统学科界限的合作研究创造一个肥沃的环境，并让学生了解将研究转化为创新以造福社会的过程。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award focuses on the energy transition from the current fossil-fuel-based economy to one where solar energy harvested by means of photovoltaics, solar-thermal, and photosynthesis-driven bioenergy approaches will become a keystone in global human energy use. Scalability, efficiency and economy of these three technical solar energy conversion approaches, along with societal components such as sustainability policy and responsible energy use, will all be necessary for success. This program supports the interdisciplinary training of diverse student cohorts in multiple solar energy conversion areas at different scales, integrated with a policy and social understanding, thus educating the next generation of citizen-scientists, innovative thinkers and enlightened policy makers who can guide society toward a sustainable energy future. Broader Impacts: In order to further enhance inclusion of students from all backgrounds, the SUN IGERT project will leverage agreements with schools and programs with significant enrollment of underrepresented groups, particularly Hispanics and Native Americans, to lower barriers for underrepresented minorities. Effective mentoring and use-inspired, application-oriented, integrative research projects will enhance retention in the program. This program will also provide the groundwork for a novel Energy Ph.D. program. Successes from our program can be emulated and adapted at other institutions nationally and globally, thus catalyzing the training of a much larger group of students who can shepherd society to a new, sustainable energy future.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to establish new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries, and to engage students in understanding the processes by which research is translated to innovations for societal benefit.