Support for US Scholars and Students to Participate in the 5th International Symposium on Nanomanufacturing, January 2008, Singapore

这笔旅费资助将使美国学者能够前往参加将于1月23日至1月25日在新加坡举行的第五届纳米制造国际研讨会（ISNM）。ISNM是世界领先的论坛，学者，工程师和商界成员讨论纳米制造的研究，教育和应用。 旅行支持将主要提供给非裔美国人和女性学者，特别是那些谁是建立自己的职业生涯在纳米制造。 它还将使美国学生能够参加纳米设计竞赛，学生们将在比赛中设计一个纳米定位平台。保持美国在纳米制造领域的领导地位对国家利益至关重要。 这项赠款的更广泛的影响将通过与会者在研讨会上获得的教育和经验发生。 更具体地说，早期职业学者将丰富他们在技术专业领域和互补领域的最新知识，观察既定研究人员如何交流思想，网络和形成研究/教育合作的种子，参加关于改善纳米制造教育的讨论，从而使听到的观点多样化。通过海报和口头介绍他们的研究获得技术交流的经验，并与其他国家的学生一起参加工程设计比赛。 其他切实的好处包括纳米制造科学迅速传播到美国学术/工程界，继续承认美国在该领域的领导地位，并继续增加来自代表性不足群体的学者的参与。

This travel grant is to enable U.S. scholars to travel to, and attend, the 5th International Symposium on Nanomanufacturing (ISNM) that will take place in Singapore from Jan. 23 - Jan. 25. The ISNM serves as the world's leading forum in which scholars, engineers and members of the business community discuss research, education and applications in Nanomanufacturing. Travel support will be provided mainly to African American and women scholars, particularly those who are establishing their careers in nanomanufacturing. It will also enable U.S. students to participate in a nano-design contest, in which students will compete to design a nano-positioning stage.Maintaining US leadership in nanomanufacturing is important to the national interest. The broader impacts of this grant will occur via the education and experiences that attendees gain at the symposium. More specifically, early career scholars will enrich their knowledge of the state-of-the-art in their area of technical expertise and complimentary fields, observe how established researchers communicate ideas, network and form seeds for research/education collaboration, take part in discussions about improving nanomanufacturing education and thereby diversify the perspectives that are heard, gain experience in technical communication via posters and oral presentation of their research, and participate in an engineering design competition with students from other countries. Other tangible benefits include the rapid dissemination of nanomanufacturing science into the U.S. academic/engineering community, continued recognition of U.S. leadership in the field, and continued increase in the participation of scholars from underrepresented groups.