Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education Resource Center

在过去的十年里，可再生能源的增长速度远远快于许多其他行业。这一增长源于最近的技术进步、政府政策和监管改革，以及太阳能和风能设备成本的大幅降低。因此，电力部门现在正在进行一场戏剧性的转变，从从化石燃料获得的能源转向从可再生资源获得的能源。可再生能源领域的STEM职业为技术人员提供了高薪工作，这些工作可以养活家庭，不易出口，并使当地社区受益。可再生能源高级技术教育资源中心(CREATE)旨在支持培养新一代可再生能源教育工作者和熟练的技术专业人员。预期结果包括更多地使用可再生能源，改善电力基础设施，提高美国能源系统的弹性，以及美国作为可再生能源技术全球行业领先者发挥更大作用。CREATE将支持为期两年的机构开发、推广、发展和推进强有力的学术项目，为可再生能源行业提供熟练的技术劳动力。这一目标将通过六个主要目标实现：1)为教师和未来的NSF可再生能源技术主要研究人员提供支持、指导和专业发展；2)协调和支持更多的可再生能源行业、商业和学术合作伙伴关系；3)教育公众有关可再生能源和可再生能源技术人员的职业生涯；4)开发、筛选、验证、更新和分发可再生能源教材、课程和教学实践；5)连接和支持可再生能源和相关领域的现有和新的ATE项目主要研究人员；以及6)制定计划，以实现中心关键职能的可持续性和制度化。其他计划包括为高中教育工作者提供服务，以建立通往高等教育的桥梁。该中心还将接触拉美裔服务机构、部落学院和历史上的黑人学院的教职员工，鼓励他们申请ATE项目。增加可再生能源领域的妇女人数将继续是CREATE的重点。该项目由高级技术教育计划资助，该计划专注于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Over the past decade, renewable energy has grown at a much faster pace than many other industry sectors. This growth results from recent technological advances, government policy and regulatory reforms, and tremendous reductions in the cost of solar and wind equipment. As a result, the electricity sector is now engaged in a dramatic shift from energy obtained from fossil fuels to energy obtained from renewable resources. STEM careers in renewable energy provide technicians with well-paying jobs that can support families, that cannot be easily exported, and that benefit the local community. The Resource Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education (CREATE) aims to support preparation of a new generation of renewable energy educators and skilled technical professionals. The expected outcomes include greater use of renewable energy, an improved power infrastructure, greater resilience of US energy systems, and a larger role for the United States as a global industry leader in renewable energy technology. CREATE will support two-year institutions to develop, promote, grow, and advance robust academic programs to provide the renewable energy industry with a skilled technical workforce. This goal will be accomplished through six key objectives: 1) provide support, mentoring, and professional development for faculty and prospective NSF principal investigators in renewable energy technology; 2) coordinate and support additional renewable energy industry, business, and academic partnerships; 3) educate the public about renewable energy and renewable energy technician careers; 4) develop, screen, validate, update, and distribute renewable energy teaching materials, curricula, and pedagogical practices; 5) connect and support existing and new ATE project Principal Investigators in renewable energy and related fields; and 6) develop a plan for achieving sustainability and institutionalization of key center functions. Additional plans include serving high school educators to create bridges to higher education. The Center will also reach out to faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges and Historically Black Colleges to encourage them to apply to the ATE program. Increasing the number of women in the renewable energy fields will continue to be a focus of CREATE. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.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.