Workshop: Advancing Healthy Communities - the 2017 AEESP Meeting to be held on June 20-22, 2017 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1719868 LastoskieThe bifannual Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors（AEESP）Research and Education Conference是该组织的旗舰活动，供成员讨论新颖的研究和教育活动，并培养专业能力。该会议是学术界和从业人员之间交流信息的场所，特别是关于创新研究的推进和学生在环境工程和科学专业实践的准备。 本次会议以“推进健康社区”为主题，定于2017年6月20日至22日在密歇根州安阿伯的密歇根大学校园内举行。2017年AEESP会议将由核心理事会组织，该理事会由密歇根大学的教师组成，牵头机构和五所合作大学（密歇根州立大学，韦恩州立大学，密歇根理工大学，托莱多大学和圣母大学）。预计将有600名教师、学生和嘉宾参加会议。与以往的AEESP会议一样，2017年AEESP研究与教育会议的主题规划将涉及广泛的环境工程和科学主题，包括饮用水处理;废水处理的环境微生物学;老化供水基础设施的管理;污染土壤和棕地的修复;社区对气候变化的适应能力;废物流中的材料和能源回收;城市空气质量;发展中国家的环境教育;将设计纳入环境工程;以及关于公共卫生问题的道德和风险沟通。会议地点及其推进健康社区的主题在最近密歇根州弗林特饮用水危机之后特别相关。除了以水处理技术和供水基础设施管理的进步为主题的技术规划外，有关公共卫生的伦理，教育和风险沟通的演讲将成为2017年AESSP会议的关键组成部分。AEESP会议提供了一个相当大的本科生，研究生和博士后学生群体的机会，提供口头和海报介绍他们的研究，以环境工程和科学学术界。参加会议的初级和未来的教师将受益于如何找到教师职位，申请NSF职业奖，并在他们的教学和研究活动取得成功的研讨会。环境研究和教育的学术进展将发表在《环境工程科学》杂志的特刊上。综上所述，2017年AEESP大会将促进与“推进健康社区”会议主题相关的重要研究和教育成果的广泛传播。

1719868LastoskieThe biannual Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Research and Education Conference is the flagship event of the organization for members to discuss novel research and educational activities and to develop professional competencies. The conference serves as a venue for exchange of information among academics and practitioners, particularly relating to advancement of innovative research and preparation of students for professional practice in environmental engineering and science. This conference, which has the theme of "Advancing Healthy Communities," is scheduled to be held on June 20-22, 2017, and will be hosted on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The 2017 AEESP meeting will be organized by a core council composed of faculty members from the University of Michigan, the lead institution, and five partnering universities (Michigan State University, Wayne State University, Michigan Technological University, University of Toledo, and University of Notre Dame). It is anticipated that 600 faculty, students, and guests will attend the conference. As in previous AEESP meetings, topical programming at the 2017 AEESP Research and Education Conference will address a broad spectrum of environmental engineering and science themes, including drinking water treatment; environmental microbiology for wastewater treatment; management of aging water supply infrastructures; remediation of contaminated soils and brownfields; community resilience to climate change; material and energy recovery from waste streams; urban air quality; environmental education in the developing world; integration of design into environmental engineering; and ethics and risk communication on matters of public health. The conference location and its theme of advancing healthy communities has particular relevance in the recent aftermath of the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan. In addition to technical programming themed on advances in water treatment technologies and water supply infrastructure management, presentations concerning ethics, education, and risk communication in relation to public health will be a key component of the 2017 AESSP meeting. The AEESP meeting offers a sizable cohort of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students the opportunity to deliver oral and poster presentations on their research to the environmental engineering and science academic community. Junior and prospective faculty members attending the conference will benefit from workshops on how to find a faculty position, apply for the NSF CAREER award, and achieve success in their teaching and research activities. Scholarly advancements in environmental research and education will be published in a special issue of the journal Environmental Engineering Science. In summary, the 2017 AEESP Conference will promote the broad dissemination of important research and education achievements relating to the conference theme of "Advancing Healthy Communities".