The Fourth International Congress on Sustainability Science and Engineering, Balatonfured, Hungary, May 26-29, 2015

黄，1533966在过去的二十年里，各行业付出了巨大的努力来提高工程系统的能源和材料效率，设计更环保的产品和可持续的供应链，并通过提高业务的可持续性来对社会更负责。在学术界，可持续发展科学与工程已成为工程学、自然科学和社会科学各学科中一个非常活跃的研究领域。发展了可持续性理论和可持续性评估、分析、设计和决策方法以及工具，其中许多方法和工具被用来与工业界合作解决现实世界的问题。为了加强沟通，促进学术界和产业界之间的经验分享、联网和合作，世界各地每年都会组织各种与可持续发展有关的会议、研讨会和研讨会。为了解决更广泛的可持续发展科学和工程问题，促进关于科学和技术发展的讨论，并分享工业可持续发展方面的研究和实践经验，一群科学家、教育工作者、工程师和政府官员决定组织一系列会议的第四次活动，即第四届可持续科学与工程国际大会(ICOSSE)。大会将于2015年5月26日至29日在匈牙利巴拉通夫雷德举行。这是ICOSSE系列首次在外国组织活动。这次会议应该为各个物理科学、工程领域、经济学和社会科学的科学家、研究人员和实践者提供一个很好的平台，讨论研究和教育挑战，分享他们的研究和实践经验，促进联网。会议将围绕可持续发展的四个关键主题组织；它们是：可持续能源、可持续制造、能源促进可持续发展以及粮食、能源和水的联系。演讲的重点将是利用科学和工程创新从系统的角度追求工业的可持续性。这次会议应该有助于弥合研发之间的差距，加强产业界和学术界之间的联系，并探索广泛的国际合作机会。ICOSSE成为可持续发展领域的一个重要国际会议系列。与过去的三届ICOSSE不同，第四届活动将在欧洲举行。这笔旅行补助金将帮助美国学术与会者借此机会了解可持续发展各个领域的尖端研究，与世界级领导人和其他同行，特别是欧洲和邻近地区的同行分享他们的经验，并在加强可持续工程研究和教育方面寻找国际合作机会。将强烈鼓励初级教职员工、年轻研究人员、研究生和本科生，特别是那些在科学和工程领域代表性不足的少数族裔参加会议。学生海报论文比赛将为他们提供一个很好的机会来介绍他们的研究活动，并接受来自不同国家的领先专家的建议。计划将在五种技术期刊上发表选定的论文。

Huang, 1533966Over the past two decades, industries have made tremendous efforts to improve energy and material efficiency in engineered systems, design greener products and sustainable supply chain, and become more responsible to the society through improving their business sustainability. In academia, sustainability science and engineering has become a very active area of research in various disciplines of engineering, natural and social sciences. Sustainability theories and sustainability assessment, analysis, design and decision making methodologies as well as tools have been developed, many of which are used to tackle real-world problems in collaboration with industries. To improve communications and promote experience sharing, networking, and collaboration between academia and industries, a variety of sustainability related conferences, symposiums, and workshops are organized around the world every year. To address much broader issues of sustainability science and engineering, facilitate discussions on scientific and technological development, and share research and practice experiences in industrial sustainability, a group of scientists, educators, and engineers, and governmental officers have decided to organize the fourth event of a conference series, namely The 4th International Congress on Sustainability Science and Engineering (ICOSSE). The conference will be held in Balatonfüred, Hungary on May 26-29, 2015.This is the first time for the ICOSSE series to organize an event in a foreign country. This conference should provide an excellent platform for scientist, researchers, and practitioners of various physical sciences, engineering fields, economics, and social sciences to discuss research and education challenges, share their research and practicing experience, and promote networking. The conference will be organized on four key themes in sustainability; they are: sustainable energy, sustainable manufacturing, energy for sustainability, and the nexus of food, energy, and water. The presentation focus will be on pursuing industrial sustainability from the systems perspective using scientific and engineering innovations. The conference should help bridge the gap between research and development and strengthen the linkage between industries and academia, and explore opportunities for broad international collaboration.The ICOSSE becomes a major international conference series in the sustainability field. Different from the past three ICOSSEs, this 4th event is to be held in Europe. The travel grant should help US academic attendees take this opportunity to learn the cutting-age research in various fields of sustainability, share their experience with the world class leaders and other colleagues, especially those in Europe and near regions, and identify international collaboration opportunities in strengthening sustainable engineering research and education. Junior faculty members, young researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, especially those minorities underrepresented in science and engineering will be strongly encouraged to attend the conference. Student poster paper competitions will provide a great opportunity for them to present their research activities and receive advice from leading experts from different countries. It is planned that selected papers will be published in five technical journals.