A Workshop on Earth Systems Engineering: A Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Approach

地球系统工程研讨会：土木、环境和建筑工程方法

• 批准号: 0106516
• 负责人: Bernard Amadei
• 金额: $ 9.5万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-06-01 至 2002-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0106516&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Earth; Systems; Engineering; Civil

With a current population of 6 billion, there is growing recognition that humans are altering the Earth's natural systems at all scales from local to global at an unprecedented rate in the human history. In general, most human-made projects involve the interactions of non-natural systems (such as machines or infrastructures) with natural systems (biosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere). Engineering, being a central element of human society, needs to understand and take into account the relationships between natural and non-natural systems when creating structures needed to sustain the quality of life of current and future generations. Traditionally, engineering practice and engineering education have been based on the paradigm of control of nature rather than cooperation with nature. In this paradigm, humans and the natural world are divided. As a result, past engineering achievements have often been developed without considering their social, economic and environmental impacts on natural systems. A worldwide transition to a more holistic approach to engineering requires a major paradigm shift from control of nature to participation with nature. For example, the question of what represents a sustainable engineering structure or system is still an open-ended question that needs to be addressed and clarified by engineers.Engineers need to be given a much broader and integrated education than what is traditionally taught in engineering curricula today. For example, an ability to understand how engineering structures adapt and adjust to natural systems is critical. It is clear that engineers of the 21st century will be called to make decisions in a professional environment where they will have to interact with others from many technical and non-technical disciplines. In response to the global nature of the problems that Earth is facing today and is likely to face in the near future and in view of the complexity of the interaction between natural and natural systems, we are developing a new initiative called Earth Systems Engineering (ESE) in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. As a first step in this initiative, we are planning to conduct an international workshop on ESE on October 4-6, 2001 on the CU Boulder campus. The workshop will be three days in length and will bring together industry, government and university participants from engineering, physical sciences, biological sciences, and social sciences. The overall purpose of the workshop is three-fold: (1) provide an intellectual framework for interdisciplinary exchange, (2) provide recommendations on the future course of engineering education, research, and practice in the understanding of the interaction between natural and non-natural systems at multiple scales from local to regional and global, and (3) recommend new engineering concepts in water resources, geomechanical, environmental, and other sub-fields in Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering. More specifically, the workshop will consider the interaction of natural systems with non-natural systems such as civil, environmental and architectural infrastructures (e.g. the built environment). All three components of ESE research, education and outreach will be addressed throughout the workshop.

目前人口已达 60 亿，人们越来越认识到人类正在以人类历史上前所未有的速度从局部到全球各个层面改变地球的自然系统。一般来说，大多数人造项目都涉及非自然系统（例如机器或基础设施）与自然系统（生物圈、水圈、地圈）的相互作用。工程作为人类社会的核心要素，在创建维持当代和子孙后代生活质量所需的结构时，需要理解并考虑自然和非自然系统之间的关系。传统上，工程实践和工程教育一直基于控制自然的范式，而不是与自然合作的范式。在这种范式中，人类和自然世界是分开的。因此，过去的工程成就往往是在没有考虑其对自然系统的社会、经济和环境影响的情况下开发的。全球范围内向更全面的工程方法的转变需要从控制自然到参与自然的重大范式转变。例如，什么代表可持续的工程结构或系统仍然是一个开放式问题，需要工程师解决和澄清。工程师需要接受比当今工程课程中传统教授的更广泛和综合的教育。例如，了解工程结构如何适应和调整自然系统的能力至关重要。很明显，21 世纪的工程师将被要求在专业环境中做出决策，他们必须与来自许多技术和非技术学科的其他人进行互动。为了应对地球今天面临和在不久的将来可能面临的问题的全球性，并考虑到自然与自然系统之间相互作用的复杂性，我们正在科罗拉多大学博尔德分校土木、环境和建筑工程系制定一项名为地球系统工程（ESE）的新计划。作为这一举措的第一步，我们计划于 2001 年 10 月 4 日至 6 日在 CU Boulder 校园举办一次关于 ESE 的国际研讨会。研讨会为期三天，将汇集来自工程、物理科学、生物科学和社会科学的行业、政府和大学参与者。研讨会的总体目的有三个：（1）为跨学科交流提供知识框架，（2）为理解从地方到区域和全球多个尺度的自然与非自然系统之间的相互作用的未来工程教育、研究和实践课程提供建议，以及（3）推荐水资源、地质力学、环境以及土木、环境和建筑工程的其他子领域的新工程概念。更具体地说，研讨会将考虑自然系统与非自然系统的相互作用，例如土木、环境和建筑基础设施（例如建筑环境）。 ESE 研究、教育和推广的所有三个组成部分将在整个研讨会期间得到讨论。