Support for Student Travel for the Spring 2018 Technical Meeting of the Eastern State Section of the Combustion Institute

该奖项是部分支持研究生和本科生参加燃烧研究所东部各州部分2018年春季技术会议的差旅费。这次会议将在宾夕法尼亚州立大学举行，是来自美国东海岸地区学术界、工业界和政府的燃烧研究人员的聚会。会议的技术计划包括一系列的全体讲座，贡献的口头报告，和信息社交聚会。参加技术会议的经验对学生非常有益。这些经历不仅有助于学生的专业发展，还能激发他们在制定未来研究方向时的批判性思维。由于其对能量转换和环境质量的影响，对燃烧过程和实际燃烧系统的了解对社会至关重要。在会议上交流信息可以提高研究突破的速度，使燃烧更有效，更清洁，燃料灵活性更高。本次会议的一个特别关注的是研究生和本科生，为这些学生提供了一个机会，介绍并获得他们的研究反馈。这笔奖金将用于抵消非本地学生的旅费，以增加学生在会议上的参与，特别是来自代表性不足的院校的学生，这些院校可能没有足够的财政手段来完全支持学生参加会议。

This award is to partially support the travel expenses of graduate and undergraduate students in attending the 2018 Spring Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute. This conference, to be held at the Penn State University, is a gathering of combustion researchers in academia, industry, and government from the East Coast region of the United States. The technical program of the conference consists of a series of plenary lectures, contributed oral presentations, and information social gatherings. Experiences in attending technical conferences are extremely beneficial to students. These experiences will not only help with the students' professional development, but also stimulate their critical thinking in formulating future research directions.Because of its effect on energy conversion and environmental quality, the understanding of combustion processes and practical combustion systems is of paramount importance to society. Exchange of information at conferences increases the rate at which research breakthroughs can be made to make combustion more efficient and cleaner with fuel-flexibility. A particular focus of this conference is on graduate and undergraduate students by providing an opportunity for these students to present and get feedback on their research. This award will be used to offset the travel expenses of non-local students in an effort to increase student participation at the meeting, particularly students from underrepresented institutions that may not have the financial means to fully support student travel to conferences.