Travel Grant for Eighth Mediterranean Chemical Engineering Conference to be held in Israel in 2014

1248189 cramer该国际旅行补助金旨在支持22名美国学术代表参加将于2014年在以色列举行的第八届东地中海化学工程会议（EMCC8）。以色列、希腊、土耳其、意大利、保加利亚、罗马尼亚和美国将参加这次会议。来自其他东地中海国家的学术化学工程师也将被邀请。以色列理工学院化学工程系系主任Yachin Cohen教授将担任本次会议主席。知识价值：EMCC8将促进来自世界各地的研究合作，并通过互动论坛加强化学工程的研究和教学。这次会议将促进类似于戈登研究会议的广泛的科学和个人交流。美国将受益于参与国在运输现象、分子动力学、计算机模拟、生物技术、反应工程和分离技术等研究领域的高水平专业知识。这些领域与水净化、环境修复、能源生产、制药开发、食品生产等有很大的相关性。与之前的会议一样，预计参与者将由来自美国的大约25名学术化学工程师，来自东道国（以色列）的50名，来自意大利，希腊，土耳其的至少20名以及来自保加利亚和罗马尼亚的参与者组成。此外，预计将有大量来自东地中海参加国的研究生出席会议。美国EMCC协调委员会由Steve Cramer（伦斯勒理工学院）、Nick Abbott（威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校）和Alex Katz（加州大学伯克利分校）组成，他们将选择高级和年轻的研究人员，这些研究人员进行了出色的研究，并致力于与其他参与国的研究人员建立和继续合作。此外，还将向5名美国参会者提供特别旅行补助，让他们前往以色列和其他参与国进行访问和演讲，以发展和（或）促进合作。更广泛的影响：基于前几次会议的成功，将对参加EMCC8的美国工程师产生重大而广泛的影响。前三届EMCC会议对美国、土耳其、以色列和希腊的学者了解他们的研究兴趣和能力以及促进研究合作产生了重大影响。第四、第五和第六次会议提供了进一步的机会，将会议扩大到包括意大利、保加利亚和罗马尼亚。在希腊举行的第七届杰出会议也有来自沙特阿拉伯的研究人员参加。这些会议为参加国的教员就课程问题进行富有成果的讨论提供了极好的论坛。除了美国参与者将与其他国家的人进行个人接触外，促进研究和教学理念以及人员的交流，并在美国化学工程师与东地中海国家的化学工程师之间建立研究合作，也将有利于美国的利益。将做出重大努力，将年轻和代表性不足的教师纳入美国参与者群体。像过去一样，招收潜在的研究生也可能是非正式的。

1248189CramerThis international travel grant seeks support for 22 U.S. academic representatives to attend the 8th Eastern Mediterranean Chemical Engineering Conference (EMCC8) to be held in Israel in 2014. This conference will involve the participation of Israel, Greece, Turkey, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania and the United States. Academic chemical engineers from other Eastern Mediterranean countries will also be invited. Professor Yachin Cohen, Head of the Chemical Engineering Department at Technion (Israel) will be the Chair of this conference. Intellectual Merit: The EMCC8 will promote research collaborations from around the world and enhance research and teaching in chemical engineering through interactive forums. This conference will foster extensive scientific and personal exchanges similar to a Gordon Research Conference. The U.S. will benefit from exposure to the high-level of expertise from participating countries in research areas such as transport phenomena, molecular dynamics, computer simulations, biotechnology, reaction engineering and separation technologies. These areas have great relevance to water purification, environmental remediation, energy production, pharmaceutical development, food production, and more. As in previous conferences, it is expected the participants will be made up of approximately 25 academic chemical engineers from the U.S., 50 from the host country (Israel), at least 20 from Italy, Greece, Turkey, and participantsfrom Bulgaria and Romania. In addition, it is expected that a large number of graduate students will attend from participating Eastern Mediterranean Countries. The U.S. EMCC coordinating committee consisting of Steve Cramer (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Nick Abbott (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Alex Katz (University of California-Berkeley) will select a combination of senior and young investigators who produce excellent research and are committed to establishing and continuing collaborations with investigators from other participating countries. Special travel supplements will also be provided to five U.S. participants to visit and lecture in Israel and other participating countries to develop and/or promote collaborations.Broader Impacts: Based on the success of previous conferences, there will be a significant and broad impact on the U.S. engineers attending the EMCC8. The first three EMCC Conferences have had major impacts in acquainting U.S., Turkish, Israeli, and Greek academics with their research interests and capabilities and in fostering research collaborations. The fourth, fifth and sixth conferences provided further opportunities by expanding the conference to include Italy, Bulgaria and Romania. The seventh outstanding conference in Greece also included participation from researchers from Saudi Arabia. These conferences have provided excellent forums for fruitful discussions on curriculum issues among faculty of the participating countries. In addition to the personal contacts that the U.S. participants will make with people from the other countries, it will be beneficial to U.S. interests to foster exchanges of research and teaching ideas and of personnel, and establish research collaborations between chemical engineers from the U.S. and chemical engineers from the Eastern Mediterranean countries. Significant efforts will be made to include both young and underrepresented faculty in the group of U.S. participants. It is also likely that recruitment of potential graduate students may occur informally, as in the past.