Grand Challenges and Opportunities in Environmental Engineering and Science for the Twenty-first Century

二十一世纪环境工程与科学的巨大挑战和机遇

• 批准号: 1643182
• 负责人: Stephanie Johnson
• 金额: $ 90万
• 依托单位: National Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-15 至 2021-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1643182&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Grand; Challenges; Opportunities; Environmental; Engineering

1643182JohnsonThe Water Science and Technology Board of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is undertaking a study to identify high priority challenges for the broad fields of environmental engineering and science. The committee will identify grand challenges for environmental engineering and science for the next several decades. These should be significant societal challenges that will require the expertise of environmental engineering and science to resolve or manage. The report will shape the growth of university departments, inspire the next generation of engineers and scientists to address the most pressing global environmental challenges, and improve the training of environmental engineers and scientists to better meet these challenges. The committee will hold a minimum of three meetings to receive briefings, gather information, deliberate critical issues, and write its report. The study should produce a visionary document and result in a subsequent 18-month intensive dissemination/outreach effort of value to environmental engineering and science programs throughout the United States and worldwide. Events like droughts, oil spills, and increasing food prices, illustrative of the "food-energy-water nexus", make it clear that the United States can no longer view environmental systems in isolation. Integrative solutions to these pressing challenges necessitate new educational approaches and research strategies for environmental engineering and sciences and partnerships with a wide array of engineers, scientists, and social scientists. A 2014 NRC report, "Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond", illustrates how these new problems require new thought modalities and approaches. Thus, this study will also examine ways to integrate interdisciplinary and systems approaches into environmental engineering and sciences. These are essential steps to facilitate innovative solutions to these global grand challenges for environmental engineering.

1643182约翰逊美国国家科学院、工程院和医学院水科学和技术委员会正在进行一项研究，以确定环境工程和科学广泛领域的高优先级挑战。 该委员会将确定未来几十年环境工程和科学的重大挑战。这些应该是重大的社会挑战，需要环境工程和科学的专业知识来解决或管理。 该报告将塑造大学部门的发展，激励下一代工程师和科学家应对最紧迫的全球环境挑战，并改善环境工程师和科学家的培训，以更好地应对这些挑战。委员会将至少举行三次会议，听取简报，收集信息，审议关键问题，并撰写报告。这项研究应该产生一个有远见的文件，并导致随后18个月的密集传播/推广工作的价值，环境工程和科学计划在美国和世界各地。 干旱、石油泄漏和粮食价格上涨等事件表明了“粮食-能源-水的关系”，这些事件清楚地表明，美国再也不能孤立地看待环境系统。这些紧迫挑战的综合解决方案需要新的教育方法和环境工程和科学的研究战略，以及与广泛的工程师，科学家和社会科学家的伙伴关系。2014年NRC的一份报告《融合：促进生命科学、物理科学、工程学及其他学科的跨学科整合》（Convergence：Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences，Physical Sciences，Engineering，and Beyond）说明了这些新问题如何需要新的思维模式和方法。 因此，本研究还将探讨如何将跨学科和系统的方法融入环境工程和科学。这些都是促进创新解决方案以应对这些全球环境工程重大挑战的重要步骤。