Sustainability: Building Teams to Tackle Complex Problems

可持续发展：建立团队来解决复杂的问题

• 批准号: 1301745
• 负责人: Martin Green
• 金额: $ 4.45万
• 依托单位: Materials Research Society
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-12-01 至 2013-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1301745&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sustainability; Building; Teams; Tackle; Complex

TECHNICALThis project supports a workshop, entitled Sustainability: Building Teams to Tackle Complex Problems, to be held November 25-26, 2012 at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting in Boston. The workshop is supported by the Divisions of Materials Research, Chemistry, Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in MPS. The primary objective of this workshop is to present a broader view of sustainable development to the MRS audience. Specifically, the highly interdisciplinary nature of the sustainable development field will be emphasized, with particular attention to practical issues, such as generating serious interactions between scientists, engineers, industrial ecologists, economists and other practitioners in the diverse sustainable development arena. The forum goals are well aligned with the Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) initiative and many other sustainability and disciplinary programs across NSF, including the new Sustainable Chemistry, Engineering, and Materials (SusChEM) investment.NON TECHNICALThis workshop will have broader impacts by fostering a holistic approach toward the science and engineering of sustainable development, and by addressing the practical challenges associated with successful interdisciplinary research and training for the next generation workforce in these techniques. The workshop will feature a diverse set of speakers and panelists, including women, underrepresented minorities, and early-career scientists, and it will expose a national and international group of researchers to the field of sustainable development. This group includes academic faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, post docs, and industrial and government researchers in all fields of science and engineering. In particular, the workshop will feature virtual contributions from student groups based at Stanford University and KAUST in Saudi Arabia (MRS's first university chapter outside of the U.S.). The workshop will foster new interdisciplinary, and potentially transformative, collaborations in this important research area, and will help researchers make their interdisciplinary research more effective. Thus, the broader impact on education, research and training of faculty members as well as graduate and undergraduate students will be substantial. Additional broader impacts will be created through disseminating information via the MRS Bulletin, Materials360, and using LinkedIn (MRS group and group on Materials for Energy and Sustainable Development), and through video capture and two-way streaming, as part of an MRS experiment toward virtual meeting activities. The workshop will also be held in conjunction with a four-day symposium entitled "Materials as Tools for Sustainability," which should bring a large audience to the workshop and educate them not only in the materials aspects of sustainability, but also in the broader, interdisciplinary nature of the field. Upon completion of the workshop, an evaluation will be sent to workshop participants to gauge the impact of the event, and a short document will be written to summarize best practices and challenges remaining for successful interdisciplinary sustainability research.

TECHNICAL该项目支持将于2012年11月25日至26日在波士顿举行的材料研究学会(MRS)秋季会议上举行的题为可持续发展：构建解决复杂问题的团队的研讨会。研讨会得到了材料研究、化学、化学、生物工程、环境和运输系统部门以及MPS多学科活动办公室的支持。这次研讨会的主要目的是向管理当局的听众介绍更广泛的可持续发展观点。具体而言，将强调可持续发展领域的高度跨学科性质，并特别注意实际问题，例如在各种可持续发展领域产生科学家、工程师、工业生态学家、经济学家和其他从业人员之间的认真互动。论坛的目标与科学、工程和教育促进可持续发展(SEES)倡议以及NSF的许多其他可持续发展和学科计划非常一致，包括新的可持续化学、工程和材料(SusChEM)投资。NON TECHNICAL本次研讨会将通过促进可持续发展的科学和工程的整体方法，以及通过解决与成功的跨学科研究和对下一代劳动力进行这些技术培训相关的实际挑战，产生更广泛的影响。讲习班将有不同的发言者和小组成员参加，其中包括妇女、任职人数不足的少数群体和职业生涯早期的科学家，并将使国家和国际研究人员群体接触可持续发展领域。这一群体包括学术人员、本科生和研究生、博士后，以及科学和工程所有领域的工业和政府研究人员。特别是，研讨会将以斯坦福大学和沙特阿拉伯的KAUST学生团体的虚拟贡献为特色(MRS在美国以外的第一个大学分会)。研讨会将在这一重要研究领域促进新的跨学科合作，并将帮助研究人员提高跨学科研究的效率。因此，对教职员工以及研究生和本科生的教育、研究和培训将产生重大影响。将通过MRS公报、材料360和使用LinkedIn(能源和可持续发展材料小组和小组)以及通过视频捕获和双向流传输，作为MRS试验虚拟会议活动的一部分，产生更广泛的影响。讲习班还将与为期四天的题为“材料作为可持续发展的工具”的专题讨论会同时举行，该专题讨论会将吸引大批观众参加讲习班，并对他们进行教育，使他们不仅了解可持续性的材料方面，而且还了解该领域更广泛的跨学科性质。讲习班结束后，将向讲习班参与者发送一份评估报告，以评估活动的影响，并将编写一份简短文件，总结成功开展跨学科可持续性研究的最佳做法和剩余挑战。