2009 AEESP Conference and CAREER Workshop - Grand Challenges in Environmental Engineering and Science: Research and Education

0902002 Mats过去50年来，环境工程和科学以及公共卫生领域在处理饮用水供应、提供安全的废水输送和改善空气质量方面取得了显著进展。但是，在未来几十年里，我们面临着什么样的巨大挑战？哪些环境研究领域对应对这些挑战最为关键？到2050年，世界人口将达到近90亿，世界生产总值将是今天的2-4倍，环境科学家和工程师肯定会在社会中发挥重要作用。我们能否改善未来的结果将在很大程度上取决于我们的学生，下一代的环境专业人士。2009年AEESP会议将为AEESP提供一个论坛，作为一个社区，讨论挑战，并更好地准备环境工程教师和学生应对这些挑战。美国国家科学院（2001年）和美国国家工程院（2002年）都确定了以下环境大挑战，这些挑战为重大技术，科学和社会突破提供了潜力：1。了解人类对主要地球化学循环的影响2。预测水媒灾害和疾病的发生率3。评估气候变化的影响4。提高我们预测水资源和水质变化的能力5。设计生态可持续城市6.了解和预测水文循环过程7.土地利用/覆盖与水生生态系统质量的定量关系8.重新发明材料的使用（成为污染物）会议是围绕大挑战组织的，每个挑战有一个主题演讲者，一个学生奖演讲者，和六到八个额外的发言者会议。每一次会议都将是研究和教育会谈的混合体，这是本提案的一个创新和令人兴奋的方面。通过结合每一次会议的会谈，我们希望突出整合研究和教育的成功例子。此外，我们将提供几个研讨会，重点是期待通过改进研究和教育来应对这些重大挑战的新方法。具体的研讨会将讨论战略，以提高我们的研究生教育计划，以及我们和我们的学生的生产力。在环境工程和科学，2009年AEESP会议的一部分，青年助理教授职业讲习班的主要目标，是告知参与者有关NSF职业生涯奖的建议过程，并激发有关个人和专业成长的讨论，作为一个终身职位-环境工程和科学的跟踪教员。

0902002MattesThe fields of environmental engineering and science, as well as public health, have made remarkable progress in treating drinking water supplies, providing for safe conveyance of wastewater, and improving air quality over the past 50 years. But what future grand challenges await us over the next few decades? And which areas of environmental research are most critical to address these challenges? In 2050, with almost 9 billion people and a Gross World Product 2-4 times larger than today, environmental scientists and engineers are sure to play an important role in society. Whether we can improve the future outcome will depend to a large extent on our students, the next generation of environmental professionals. The 2009 AEESP Conference is to provide a forum for AEESP, as a community, to discuss challenges and to better prepare environmental engineering faculty and students to tackle these challenges. Both the National Academy of Sciences (2001) and the National Academy of Engineers (2002) have identified the following environmental Grand Challenges which offer the potential for major technological, scientific, and societal breakthroughs: 1. Understanding human impacts on major biogeochemical cycles2. Forecasting incidence of water-borne hazards and disease3. Assessing effects of climate change4. Improving our ability to predict changes in water resources and quality5. Designing ecologically sustainable cities6. Understanding and forecasting hydrologic cycle processes7. Quantifying relationship of land-use/cover to aquatic ecosystem quality8. Reinventing the use of materials (that become pollutants)The conference is organized around the Grand Challenges, with each challenge having one session with a keynote speaker, a student award speaker, and six to eight additional speakers. Each session will be a mix of both research and education talks, which is an innovative, exciting aspect of this proposal. By combining the talks within each session, we hope to highlight successful examples of integrating research and education. In addition, we will offer several workshops focused on looking forward to new ways to address these Grand Challenges through improved research and education. Specific workshops will discuss strategies to enhance our graduate education programs, as well as our and our student's productivity.The principal objective of the career workshop for young assistant professors in environmental engineering and science, a part of the 2009 AEESP conference, is to inform participants about the NSF CAREER Award proposal process and to stimulate discussion concerning personal and professional growth as a tenure-track faculty member in environmental engineering and science.