Collaborative Research: REU Site: The Great Lakes Wind Energy Challenges (REU-GLWind)

风能是一种负担得起的可再生能源，在满足日益增长的能源需求、缓解气候变化原因以及为更清洁、可持续的国内能源发电组合做出贡献方面具有巨大潜力。尽管国内和全球对风能研发的需求很大，但许多非R1大学的本科生参与活跃的风能研究的机会有限。为了挖掘美国多样化的学生人才库并扩大对科学和工程的参与，迫切需要让这些学生在职业生涯早期就有机会接触风能研究，并激励他们在风能领域攻读研究生教育或从事以研究为导向的工作。五大湖(GL)Wind REU网站旨在为不同群体的本科生提供真实、引人入胜的学习和研究培训体验，以及在广泛的风能领域的职业成长机会。五大湖Wind REU网站将支持十名本科生进行为期十周的暑期研究，由克利夫兰州立大学(一所公立城市大学)和凯斯西部储备大学(一所R1私立大学)联合主办。它将利用破冰者风电场作为试验床，这是俄亥俄州克利夫兰、伊利湖和五大湖区的第一个淡水离岸风力发电场。REU学生将接触到暑期研究体验，包括(I)参与包容性学习和研究社区中正在进行的风能研究，(Ii)研究前沿和专业发展的每周研讨会，(Iii)实地考察五大湖能源研究所的公用事业规模的风力涡轮机场地，以及(Iv)在研讨会和会议上进行研究交流/传播。GL Wind REU项目特别强调从没有工程研究项目的社区学院和大学招募女性、代表性不足的少数民族和学生。该项目由国家科学基金会(NSF)、工程教育和中心部门(EEC)和能源部(DOE)、国家能源技术实验室(NETL)联合资助。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。

Wind energy, an affordable renewable energy source, has great potential to meet the growing energy demand, mitigate climate change causes and contribute to a cleaner, sustainable, domestic energy generation portfolio. Despite the demand for wind energy research and development nationally and globally, many undergraduate students of non-R1 universities have limited opportunities to participate in active wind energy research. To tap the nation's diverse student talent pool and broaden participation in science and engineering, there is a critical need to provide these students access to wind energy research early in their career and motivate them to pursue graduate education or research-oriented jobs in the wind energy sector. The Great Lakes (GL) Wind REU site aims to provide a diverse group of undergraduate students with an authentic, engaging learning and research training experience and professional growth opportunities in the broad areas of wind energy.The Great Lakes Wind REU site will support ten undergraduate students for ten-week summer research co-hosted by the Cleveland State University, a public urban university, and Case Western Reserve University, an R1 private university. It will leverage Icebreaker Wind, the first freshwater offshore wind farm in Cleveland, Ohio in Lake Erie and the Great Lakes region as the testbed. REU students will be exposed to a summer research experience that consists of (i) participation in ongoing wind energy research in inclusive learning and research communities, (ii) weekly seminars of research frontier and professional development, (iii) field visit of a utility-scale wind turbine site at the Great Lakes Energy Institute, and (iv) research communication/dissemination in workshops and conferences. The GL Wind REU project particularly emphasizes recruiting women, underrepresented minorities, and students from community colleges and universities without research programs in engineering.This project is jointly funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) and the Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).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.