MUSE: Materials and the Environment: A Binational Partnership for "Eco-Materials" Research and Education

在这项缪斯计划活动中，华盛顿大学将与成都的四川大学中国合作举办一系列研讨会，为我们区域材料加工和使用与环境的互动领域的研究和教育制定一个协调的两国计划。该项目将在双方建立团队，在教职员工层面上，包括材料科学、环境设计、环境建模的计算方法以及经济和社会科学方面的专业知识。本科生和研究生在研究和教育规划过程中的重要作用被纳入项目设计。该项目将支持两个规划研讨会，一个在西雅图，一个在成都，在那里两个国家的团队将聚集在一起，更全面地制定研究和教育议程。合作的重点有三个：1)材料加工业对环境影响的综合区域产业生态模型的设计。这项研究的重点区域是普吉特海湾地区和四川盆地2)创建燃料电池材料研究的合作计划，特别侧重于交通部门，以及3)在更有效地将环境问题纳入材料科学课程方面的合作。作为研讨会的具体结果，将产生正在进行的伙伴关系的详细计划，这些计划可以纳入向两国的国家研究组织、私人基金会和工业部门提供更全面的资金的建议

For this MUSES planning activity, the University of Washington, in collaboration with Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, will undertake a set of workshops to generate a coordinated, binational plan for research and education in the area of the interaction of materials processing and use with the environment in our regions. The project will build teams on both sides, which on the faculty level, incorporate expertise in materials science, design for the environment, computational approaches to environmental modeling, and economics and social science. Significant roles for undergraduate and graduate students in the research and educational planning process are incorporated in the program design.The program will support two planning workshops, one in Seattle and one in Chengdu, in which the binational teams will come together to more fully develop the research and educational agenda. There are three main foci for the collaboration 1) Design of comprehensive regional industrial ecology models for the effect of the materials processing industry on the environment. The regions of focus for this study are the Puget Sound Region and the Sichuan basin 2) Creation of a collaborative plan for research on materials for fuel cells, with a particular focus on the transportation sector, and; 3) Collaboration on the more effective incorporation of environmental issues in materials science curriculum.As a concrete result of the workshops, detailed plans for ongoing partnerships will be generated which can be incorporated in proposals for more comprehensive funding to national research organizations in both countries, to private foundations, and to the industrial sector