Workshop to Develop A Strategic Plan for Cold Regions Engineering Research in the New Millennium

NSF资助的目的是举办一个研讨会，召集一群从事寒区工程的执业工程师、大学教师和政府专业人员，将他们分成兴趣小组，让他们共同确定和阐明具体的研究课题，并描述本千年初应进行的必要研究工作。 建议在阿拉斯加大学安克雷奇校区举办讲习班，以尽量减少举办讲习班的费用，并使寒冷地区工程专业人员社区的参与最大化。 研讨会的成果将是一份提交给NSF的报告，随后将分发给研讨会的参与者、未能参加研讨会的其他寒冷地区工程专业人员以及相关的联邦机构。 该报告将有望指导在寒冷地区工程界的研究工作，鼓励教师编写研究建议，进行必要的研究，并指示联邦和州机构资助研究建议，其中涉及到报告中确定的研究需求。

NSF Funding is requested to conduct a Workshop by assembling a group of practicing engineers, university faculty, and government professionals specializing in cold regions engineering, dividing them into interest groups, and allowing them to collectively identify and elucidate specific research topics and describe needed research work which should be performed at the beginning of this millennium. It is proposed that the Workshop be held at the University of Alaska-Anchorage campus to minimize the costs to conduct the Workshop and mazimize the participation from the cold regions engineering professionals community. The deliverable from the Workshop will be a report to NSF, which will subsequently be distributed to the participants at the Workshop, other cold regions engineering professionals who were not able to attend, and appropriate federal agencies. The report will hopefully guide research efforts in the cold regions engineering community, encourage faculty members to write research proposals to conduct needed research, and direct federal and state agencies to fund research proposals which relate to research needs identified in the report.