IRES Track 1: Infrastructure Design for Sustainable Urban Communities

IRES 第 1 轨：可持续城市社区的基础设施设计

• 批准号: 1827122
• 负责人: Fouad Fouad
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama at Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1827122&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; Track; Infrastructure; Design; Sustainable

Economic globalization is transforming the nature of the engineering profession. The assignment of U.S. engineers overseas has become common business practice, as global enterprises establish corporate as well as research and development centers worldwide. To remain at the forefront of science and technology and to sustain our nation's global leadership in engineering, we must train our engineering graduates to be productive professionals in tomorrow's global business world and provide them the skills they will need to collaborate with international partners. This three-year IRES program will teach some of those critical skills to U.S. engineering students by providing hands-on research training and cultural experiences in one of the fastest growing regions in the world. The students will conduct research in Egypt with U.S. and Egyptian investigators in the increasingly important field of sustainable urban design. The need for sustainable housing and infrastructure is particularly acute in Egypt, a nation where 95% of the population lives on just 6% of the land area. Students will leverage the many national research initiatives currently underway in Egypt to investigate and test sustainable infrastructure designs. Participants will receive extensive mentoring before, during, and after their international experience from the U.S. and Egyptian researchers, with the ultimate goal of conducting high-level research and preparing research papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals. By working closely with their international mentors, the students will enhance their cross-cultural skills, foreign language abilities, and professional experience, preparing them to excel in a multinational environment.This three-year IRES project will provide approximately 30 undergraduate and graduate engineering students research training and cultural experiences in Egypt. The students will work with U.S. mentors and Egyptian researchers at one of the leading national research centers in Egypt, the National Housing and Building Research Center. The program will focus on the multidisciplinary theme of Infrastructure Design for Sustainable Urban Communities. The Egyptian government is currently pressing major research initiatives and demonstration projects related to sustainable urban design, including entire new cities built around sustainability principles. Our students will leverage these ongoing programs to explore and evaluate new designs for urban infrastructure that consider building materials, construction methods, energy efficiency, and water conservation. Working with our Egyptian partners, the researchers have identified eight research projects for the first year of the program that address the topics of sustainable affordable housing, the assessment of sustainable building codes, infrastructure health monitoring, sustainable building materials, water and stormwater management, and intelligent building designs. Additional research topics will be developed in subsequent years. Students will work side-by-side with Egyptian researchers with the goal of performing high-level research and producing student-led, peer-reviewed publications. The program will ultimately produce students who have the skills and international perspective necessary to pursue careers in collaborative international research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

经济全球化正在改变工程专业的性质。 随着全球企业在全球范围内建立公司和研发中心，美国工程师向海外派遣已成为常见的商业惯例。为了保持在科学和技术的最前沿，并保持我们国家在工程领域的全球领导地位，我们必须培养我们的工程毕业生成为明天全球商业世界的生产专业人士，并为他们提供与国际合作伙伴合作所需的技能。这个为期三年的IRES计划将通过在世界上增长最快的地区之一提供实践研究培训和文化体验，向美国工程专业的学生传授一些关键技能。学生们将在埃及与美国和埃及的研究人员一起在日益重要的可持续城市设计领域进行研究。埃及对可持续住房和基础设施的需求尤为迫切，该国95%的人口生活在6%的土地上。学生将利用埃及目前正在进行的许多国家研究计划，调查和测试可持续的基础设施设计。参与者将在美国和埃及研究人员的国际经验之前，期间和之后接受广泛的指导，最终目标是进行高水平的研究并准备在同行评审期刊上发表的研究论文。通过与国际导师密切合作，学生将提高他们的跨文化技能，外语能力和专业经验，为他们在跨国环境中脱颖而出做好准备。这个为期三年的IRES项目将为大约30名本科生和研究生提供埃及的研究培训和文化体验。学生们将与美国导师和埃及研究人员在埃及领先的国家研究中心之一，国家住房和建筑研究中心。该计划将侧重于可持续城市社区基础设施设计的多学科主题。埃及政府目前正在推动与可持续城市设计有关的重大研究倡议和示范项目，包括围绕可持续性原则建造的整个新城市。我们的学生将利用这些正在进行的计划，探索和评估考虑建筑材料，施工方法，能源效率和节水的城市基础设施的新设计。研究人员与埃及合作伙伴合作，确定了该计划第一年的八个研究项目，涉及可持续经济适用房，可持续建筑规范评估，基础设施健康监测，可持续建筑材料，水和雨水管理以及智能建筑设计等主题。其他研究课题将在随后几年开发。学生将与埃及研究人员并肩工作，目标是进行高水平的研究，并制作学生主导的同行评审出版物。该计划将最终培养出具有国际合作研究所需技能和国际视野的学生。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。