Conference Proposal: Student and Junior Faculty Travel Support for International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST) 2016

1632975可持续系统与技术国际研讨会将涵盖一系列问题，以评估和管理产品和服务的整个生命周期，以及可持续工程系统和技术的设计、管理和政策影响。这次会议将有大量的学生和年轻教职员工参加。申请的资金将有助于扩大全美学生、代表性不足的团体和初级教职员工的参与。计划在今年举行的三个特别会议是(1)弹性基础设施系统，(2)多样化的光伏利益相关者投入和先进的生命周期分析方法，以及(3)将不同群体聚集在一起并鼓励高水平参与的方法。ISSST的范式是通过跨学科的方法来解决复杂的可持续性问题。在ISSST，自然科学家、工程师、社会科学家、行业代表和政策制定者之间的思想交叉授粉有助于发展对适用于工程系统的可持续性的整体理解。所有会议将在ISSST YouTube频道现场直播，作者将可以开放访问数字期刊FigShare上的出版物。作者的研究将获得许可，分配一个DOI，并由谷歌学者和国会图书馆编制索引。

1632975 Seager, Thomas P.The International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST) will cover a spectrum of issues for assessing and managing products and services across their life cycle, as well as the design, management, and policy implications of sustainably engineered systems and technologies. The conference will have significant participation from students and young faculty members. The requested funds will help to expand the participation of students, underrepresented groups, and junior faculty from across the United States. Among others, three particular sessions planned for this year are (1) resilient infrastructure systems, (2) diverse photovoltaic stakeholder inputs and advancing life cycle analysis methods, and (3) approaches that bring together diverse groups and encourage high levels of participation.The ISSST paradigm is that solutions to complex sustainability issues are achieved via trans-disciplinary approaches. At ISSST, cross-pollination of ideas among natural scientists, engineers, social scientists, industry representatives, and policy makers facilitates the development of a holistic understanding of sustainability applicable to engineered systems. All sessions will be live broadcasted on the ISSST Youtube channel, and authors will have open access to the publications on the digital journal, Figshare. Authors' research will be licensed, assigned a DOI, and indexed by Google Scholar and the Library of Congress.