Conference: Travel Support for the 8th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference

美国国家科学基金会的支持将使全国各地的众多学生、早期职业工程师和教职员工能够参加第八届热与流体工程会议（TFEC），从而使他们的智力和专业发展得到显著提高。TFEC由美国热与流体工程师协会（ASTFE）主办，正在发展成为展示和讨论热与流体工程研究进展的主要平台之一。自2015年成立以来，TFEC通过寻求学生参与者的第一手资料，逐步以学生为中心。根据学生们的需求，第八届TFEC将邀请17位全体会议、主题演讲和专题演讲嘉宾，并促进他们与学生的互动。这种支持也将使学生实现他们的第二个优先事项：网络和社会化。热流体工程领域影响着我们的工业和社会的广泛范围。通过这种支持，出席会议的人数和合作的增加推动了该领域的新进展，将有助于改善和优化许多社会效益的应用，如燃气和风力涡轮机、燃料电池、电动汽车、电子设备、淡水生产、发电厂、工业过程和医药等。此外，在会议上组织的早期职业发展项目将有助于提高当前和未来劳动力的专业发展和职业选择技能。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。

This NSF support will enable numerous students, early career engineers, and faculty members around the country to attend the 8th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC), thereby leading to their significant intellectual benefit and professional development. The TFEC, organized by the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE), is growing to be one of the leading platforms for presenting and discussing research advances in thermal and fluids engineering. Since its inception in 2015, TFEC has been organized in a progressively student-centric fashion by seeking firsthand input from the student attendees. In line with the students' top priority, the 8th TFEC will invite 17 plenary, keynote, and special talk speakers and facilitate their interaction with the students. This support will also enable the students to realize their second priority: networking and socialization.The field of thermal and fluids engineering impacts a vast spectrum of our industry and society. New advances in this field prompted by increased attendance and collaborations at the conference through this support would help improve and optimize numerous applications of societal benefit such as gas and wind turbines, fuel cells, electric vehicles, electronic devices, freshwater production, power plants, industrial processes, and medicine among others. In addition, the organization of the Early-Stage Career Development program at the conference will aid in enhancing the professional development and career selection skills of both the current and the future workforce.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.