The future of ecological engineering: A student-led vision

这笔赠款将为2019年美国生态工程学会(AEES)年会提供学生旅行奖学金，并为那里面向学生的海报会议和职业网络活动提供便利。这笔资金将补充AEES正在进行的让学生更广泛地参与社会和学科的努力。AEES年会是生态工程师向他们的同事展示新工作并就他们的研究获得宝贵反馈的主要场所。它使研究人员能够了解该领域和相关学科的最新发现、趋势和挑战，并通过与来自全国和世界各地不同机构的同事互动来建立联系，以增强他们的研究计划。从旅行奖学金支持的学生那里收集的反馈将被用来更好地了解下一代生态工程师如何看待这一学科。AEES会议将有大约170-200人参加，预计大约一半是学习与生态工程相关领域的本科生或研究生。为了增加会议和学科范围内的整体多样性，将颁发学生旅行奖学金，以确定代表人数不足的机构和地理区域的优先出席情况。通过通过申请资金支持的网络会议，学生将有机会与在生态工程领域工作的教师和行业专业人员互动。本次会议的预期结果包括扩大学生指导/专业网络，并向他们展示各种职业道路。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This grant will provide student travel fellowships to the 2019 American Ecological Engineering Society (AEES) annual meeting, as well as to provide facilities for a student-oriented poster session and career networking event there. This funding will supplement AEES' ongoing efforts to engage students in the society and the discipline more broadly. The AEES annual meeting is the premier venue for ecological engineers to present new work to their colleagues and garner valuable feedback on their research. It allows researchers to hear about the latest discoveries, trends, and challenges in the field and related disciplines, and make connections that enhance their research programs through interactions with colleagues from different institutions around the country and world. Feedback collected from students supported by travel fellowships will be used to better understand how the discipline is perceived by the next generation of ecological engineers. The AEES meeting will have approximately 170- 200 attendees; approximately half are expected to be undergraduate or graduate students studying fields related to ecological engineering. To increase the overall diversity at the meeting and within the discipline, student travel fellowships will be awarded to prioritize attendance by under-represented institutions and geographic regions. Through the networking session to be supported through requested funds, students will have the opportunity to interact with faculty and industry professionals working in the field of ecological engineering. Anticipated outcomes of this session include expanding student mentoring/professional networks and exposing them a variety of career pathways.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.