Workshop on Energy Efficiency via Better Materials and Manufacturing; June 18-19, 2009

这笔资金将用于组织于2009年6月18日至19日在同一地点举行的能源效率研讨会，该研讨会将在CMMI受助人会议之前举行。这次讲习班的目标是确定变革性的研究问题和机会，使替代能源可行，并通过先进材料和制造提高运输和电力消费方面的能源效率，从而导致保存矿物燃料和减少二氧化碳排放。讲习班将集中讨论能源效率的三个方面：替代能源、运输系统和电力消耗。将有三个技术会议介绍最新的问题，然后是分组会议。这些分组会议将集思广益，讨论变革性的研究问题和使替代能源可行和提高电力消耗效率的机会。本次研讨会的主要成果将是对这些领域未来研究方向的建议清单。这些建议不仅将以提交给国家科学基金会的最后报告的形式传播，而且可能会在专业学会会议上提出并出现在出版物中。后一种方法可以更广泛地传播本次研讨会上提供的信息，并且可以更有效地使更多的科学和工程听众参与拟议的新研究方向。

This grant provides funding to organize a workshop on energy efficiency on June 18-19, 2009 just prior to the CMMI Grantee Conference and at the same site. The objective of this workshop is to identify transformative research issues and opportunities to make alternative energy sources viable and to improve energy efficiency in transportation and electricity consumption through advanced materials and manufacturing, thereby leading to the conservation of fossil fuels and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. The workshop will focus on three aspects of energy efficiency: alternative energy sources, transportation systems, and electricity consumption. There will be three technical sessions presenting state-of-the-art issues, followed by break-out sessions. These break-out sessions will brainstorm ideas on transformative research issues and opportunities to make alternative energy sources viable and to improve the efficiency of electricity consumption. The major output of this workshop will be a list of recommendations on future research directions in these areas. These recommendations will be disseminated not only in the form of a final report to the NSF, but will possibly be presented in professional society meetings and appear in publications. The latter approach provides wider dissemination of the information presented in this workshop and can more effectively engage the larger scientific and engineering audience in the proposed new research directions.