Collaborative/Workshop: Global Conference on Sustainable Product Development and Life Cycle Engineering; Technical Unversity Berlin; Berlin, Germany; 29 Sep 04 to 1 Oct 04

该奖项支持将于9月29日至10月1日在德国柏林技术大学举行的国际研讨会。该研讨会是“可持续产品开发和生命周期工程全球会议”，由柏林工业大学和德国德国研究中心共同主办。会议的目的是评价无害环境的设计和制造的最新状况，与以前国家科学基金会赞助的WTEC研究进行比较，评价该领域研究和应用之间的差距；为产品和企业的可持续发展提出建议；并确定欧盟和美国研究团队之间潜在合作的具体领域。研讨会将包括主题演讲，五个主题领域的分组讨论，以及跨主题的圆桌会议，以产生跨主题领域的综合，并为美国和欧盟的研究人员提供交流机会。资金包括支持来自美国的一直在进行EBDM研究的参与者。该奖项更广泛的影响包括识别障碍和创造研究机会，以消除EBDM对未来可持续产品创造的障碍。这将直接影响到材料和资源的使用，并将为工业界提供必要的工具，通过改进全生命周期评估，更好地解决环境影响。讲习班还将讨论教育问题，以便分享目前的教学和经验模块，并确定新的教育需求。对潜在研究的影响也跨越了许多学科——机械工程、工业工程、环境工程、材料科学和经济学。

This award supports an international workshop, to be held in Germany at the Technical University of Berlin September 29 through October 1. The workshop is a "Global Conference on Sustainable Product Development and Life-Cycle Engineering" and is co-sponsored by TU Berlin and the German Deutsch Forshungsgemeinschaft. The objectives of the conference are to assess the state-of-the -art of Environmentally Benign Design and Manufacturing as compared to the previous NSF sponsored WTEC study, to assess the gap between research and applications in the field; to develop recommendations for moving towards sustainable products and enterprises; and to identify specific areas of potential collaboration between the EU and the US research teams. The workshop will include keynote talks, breakout sessions for discussion of five topical areas, and roundtable sessions across themes to generate synthesis across the topical areas and provide networking opportunities for the US and EU researchers. Funding includes support for participants from the US who have been conducting research in EBDM. The broader impacts of this award include the impact that identifying the barriers and creating research opportunties to remove these barriers that EBDM will have on the future creation of sustainable products. This will directly affect materials and resource use, and will provide industry with the tools necessary to make decisions that better address environmental impacts through advances in total life cycle assessment. The Workshop will also address education issues so that current teaching and experiential modules can be shared, and new educational needs identified. The impact for potential research also crossed numerous disciplines - mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, environmental engineering, materials science, and economics.