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

这笔赠款提供资金，用于在2009年6月18日至19日CMMI受助人会议之前在同一地点组织一次关于能源效率的研讨会。 本次研讨会的目的是确定变革性研究问题和机会，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耗的能源效率，从而节约化石燃料和减少二氧化碳排放。 研讨会将重点讨论能源效率的三个方面：替代能源、运输系统和电力消耗。 将举行三次技术会议，介绍最新的问题，然后举行分组会议。 这些分组会议将就变革性研究问题和机会集思广益，使替代能源可行并提高电力消耗效率。 这次讲习班的主要产出将是关于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，而且可能会在专业协会会议上提出，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出的信息，并能更有效地使更多的科学和工程受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.