Conference Proposal: Early-Career Researcher Travel Support for 26th CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference May 7-9, 2019

在本次生命周期工程会议（LCE）上，研究人员、教育工作者和政策制定者将会面并探讨解决可持续发展挑战的工程和技术解决方案。普渡大学环境与生态工程系（EEE）将于2019年5月主办本次会议。LCE 2019的主题是“推进工业可持续发展”。本次会议将有来自学生、博士后和初级教员的大量参与。让年轻研究人员参与为工业可持续发展开发创造性和颠覆性解决方案至关重要。资金将用于支持来自美国各地的早期职业研究人员，特别是那些来自代表性不足群体的研究人员参加LCE 2019。解决复杂的工业可持续发展挑战只能通过跨学科的方法来发展。随着自然科学家、工程师、社会科学家、行业代表和政策制定者的参与，预计LCE 2019将为参与者提供一个很好的论坛，分享他们的发现和观点，从而有助于加强对这些挑战的整体理解。LCE 2019还将作为一个充满活力的场所，促进思想的产生和交叉授粉，并为利益相关者定义生命周期工程领域的关键下一步和研究议程。预计LCE 2019将解决关键的知识差距并扩大工业可持续性社区的参与。尽管美国的工业可持续发展社区在过去十年中发展迅速，但欧盟和日本的研究社区仍然更大，在许多领域都处于领先地位。LCE 2019致力于向世界知名专家展示美国的前沿研究成果，特别是年轻研究人员的研究成果。预计将有250多名不同的参与者通过论文和海报展示以及正式和非正式讨论分享他们的工作。在美国国家科学基金会的旅行支持下，将有可能从美国研究所带来多达65名早期职业研究人员参加会议，并将优先考虑来自代表性不足群体的研究人员。所有会议论文将在Elsevier期刊上发表。会议将包括关于教学的会议，教育工作者和学生可以讨论愿景、方法和挑战。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

In this Life Cycle Engineering Conference (LCE), researchers, educators, and policy makers will meet and explore engineering and technical solutions to address sustainable development challenges. The Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE) Department at Purdue University will host this conference in May 2019. The theme of LCE 2019 is "Advancing Industrial Sustainability". The conference will have significant participation from students, postdocs, and junior faculty members. It is critical to engage young researchers in developing creative and disruptive solutions for industrial sustainability. Funding will support travel of early career researchers, especially those from underrepresented groups, from across the United States to attend LCE 2019.Solutions to the complex industrial sustainability challenges can only be developed via inter- and transdisciplinary approaches. With participation of natural scientists, engineers, social scientists, industry representatives, and policy makers, it is anticipated that LCE 2019 will provide an excellent forum for participants to share their findings and opinions which in turn contributes to enhance the holistic understanding of these challenges. LCE 2019 will also serve as a dynamic venue to promote the generation and cross pollination of ideas and for stakeholders to define the critical next steps and research agenda in the area of life cycle engineering. It is anticipated that LCE 2019 will address key knowledge gaps and broaden participation of the industrial sustainability community. Although the U.S. industrial sustainability community has grown very fast in the past decade, the research communities in EU and Japan are still larger with leaders in many areas. LCE 2019 strives to showcase cutting-edge research done in the U.S., especially those of young researchers, to world renowned experts. It is expected that a diverse group of over 250 participants will share their work through both paper and poster presentations, as well as formal and informal discussions. With the NSF travel support, it will be possible to bring up to 65 early career researchers from U.S. institutes to the conference and priority will be given to researchers from underrepresented groups. All the conference papers will be published in Procedia CIRP (Elsevier). The conference will include sessions on teaching/learning where educators and students can discuss visions, approaches, and challenges.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.