Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Resource Recovery and Recycling

普渡大学（PU）计划加入名为“资源回收和再循环中心（CR3）”的产学研合作研究中心（I/UCRC），该中心目前是由伍斯特理工学院（牵头机构）和科罗拉多矿业学院组成的多所大学中心。CR3的使命是开展研究，使创新的回收和再循环处理技术能够最大限度地捕获消费者后的废料，并最大限度地减少制造废料的数量。在Carol Handwerker教授的领导下，PU申请资金成为NSF资源回收和再循环中心的第三个站点。该网站将重点关注三个重点领域：可持续电子材料、可持续产品设计和加工、物流、供应链和政策。普渡大学的参与将对提高电子产品的可持续性产生积极的、可衡量的影响。普渡大学的加入将使电子领域的联合产业得以加入，从而加强现有的中心。如果成功的话，生产更可持续的电子产品将对产品的设计和制造方式产生重大的环境、社会和技术影响。可持续电子的拟议研究有机会产生全球影响，特别是在整合电子工业、其供应链和影响可持续性的许多实体的需求方面。与电子工业的互动将有利于学生（了解全球工业问题的跨学科性质）和教师，他们可以随后设计出更好的可持续工业系统课程。扩大参与也是本中心的最高优先事项，并将使代表人数不足的少数民族和妇女参与中心的活动。

PROGRAM DIRECTOR'S RECOMMENDATIONIIP 1035027Purdue UniversityHandwerkerPurdue University (PU) is planning to join the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) entitled "Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling (CR3)" which currently is a multi- university center comprised of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (lead institution) and the Colorado School of Mines. The mission of CR3 is to conduct research that enables innovative recovery and recycling processing technologies that maximize the capture of post-consumer's scrap and minimize the quantity of manufacturing scrap. PU requests funding for becoming a third site of the NSF Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling under the leadership of Professor Carol Handwerker. The proposed site will focus on three thrust areas: Sustainable Electronic Materials, Sustainable Product Design and Processing, and Logistics, Supply Chain and Policy. Purdue University's participation will have a positive, measurable impact on improving the sustainability of electronic products. The addition of Purdue University will strengthen the existing Center by bringing into the consortium industries in the electronic sector. If successful, producing more sustainable electronics will have a substantial environmental, social and technological impact on the way products are designed and manufactured. The proposed research in sustainable electronics has the opportunity for global impact, particularly in integrating the needs of the electronics industry, its supply chain, and the many entities that affect sustainability. The interactions with the electronics industry will benefit both the students (in understanding the interdisciplinary nature of global industry problems) and the faculty who can subsequently design a better curriculum in sustainable industrial systems. Broadening participation is also a top priority for this site, and will involve underrepresented minorities and women within the Center activities.