Connecting the UK Industrial Doctorate Centre for the Water Sector (STREAM) with the US Urban Water Engineering Research Center (ReNUWIt)

连接英国水领域工业博士中心 (STREAM) 与美国城市水工程研究中心 (ReNUWIt)

• 批准号: EP/K021737/1
• 负责人: David Werner
• 金额: $ 10.28万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FK021737%2F1
• 关键词: Connecting; UK; Industrial; Doctorate; Centre

The UK and the US research councils have made major investments in the training of their future water engineering cadres through (respectively) a £6.4 million Industrial Doctorate Centre for the UK Water Sector (STREAM) and a $18.5 million Engineering Research Centre (ERC) for Re-inventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt). This network proposal seeks additional travel and subsistence resources to exploit the potential synergy between these two major research and training activities by enabling PhD students, early career researchers and academic staff from each centre of excellence to interact and exchange ideas, knowledge, skills and research results. The transatlantic network will engage publically and industrially supported water research activities at the universities of Newcastle, Cranfield, Sheffield, Exeter, Imperial College London, Stanford, New Mexico State, California at Berkeley, and the Colorado School of Mines.The network will enable delegations of ReNUWIt PhD students and postdocs lead by a ReNUWIt academic to participate in the Challenge Weeks 2013/2014/2015 organized each year at another STREAM university. Challenge Weeks bring together the diverse cohort of research engineers, academics and industrial partners working under the STREAM umbrella and includes team building exercises, advanced transferable skills training, guest lectures from leading industrialists and scientists, and design and problem solving challenges. Participation of ReNUWIt delegates will enrich these events and provide opportunity for formal and informal engagement between UK and US peers. The network will also enable participation of STREAM research engineers in the workshops and strategic dialogues organized by RENUWIt and/or brief research visits in ReNUWIt laboratories to learn about the ongoing work and state-of-the-art methods used in US laboratories. The goals of the RENUWIt workshops and dialogues are to identify the most critical questions in strategically important water infrastructure areas to be addressed by university research. In addition to supporting the transatlantic mobility of young researchers, the network will also enable participation of STREAM and ReNUWIt academics in each others workshops and training activities, which include taught postgraduate modules, student-led research classes/seminars, and video conference accessible series of leadership seminars occurring throughout the academic year and addressing topics such as environmental leadership, scientific ethics, communication, problem solving, and ethical conduct of research. Last but not least, the network will integrate the STREAM and ReNUWIt websites by providing information dedicated to the organization, internal reporting and public dissemination of network activities funded under this proposal. This information will contain, in addition to a description of both research initiatives with links to their main websites, all the necessary details about the travel bursaries, the application process and deadlines, a timetable of relevant STREAM and ReNUWIt events. The website will also include news items written about the exchange activities by the beneficiaries of the travel bursaries. Contributions of STREAM academics to the webinar series of the ReNUWIt center, and viewing of ReNUWIt webinars by STREAM affiliated members, will build an additional virtual bridge between the two water research centres of excellence.The additional travel and subsistence resources requested with this proposal will enable STREAM and ReNUWIt to come together as a transatlantic think tank for the water sector, to jointly nurture future engineering talent, and to add value to each other's planned activities without duplicating existing efforts.

英国和美国的研究委员会已经通过（分别）一个640万英镑的英国水务部门（STREAM）工业博士中心和一个1850万美元的工程研究中心（ERC）来重新发明国家城市水基础设施（ReNUWIt），在培训他们未来的水工程骨干方面进行了重大投资。该网络提案寻求额外的旅行和生活资源，以利用这两个主要研究和培训活动之间的潜在协同作用，使来自每个卓越中心的博士生、早期职业研究人员和学术人员能够互动和交流思想、知识、技能和研究成果。跨大西洋网络将参与纽卡斯尔大学、克兰菲尔德大学、谢菲尔德大学、埃克塞特大学、伦敦帝国理工学院、斯坦福大学、新墨西哥州大学、加州伯克利大学和科罗拉多矿业学院的公共和工业支持的水研究活动。该网络将使ReNUWIt的博士生和博士后代表团在ReNUWIt学者的带领下参加每年在另一所STREAM大学组织的2013/2014/2015挑战周。挑战周将在STREAM框架下工作的不同研究工程师，学者和工业合作伙伴聚集在一起，包括团队建设练习，高级可转移技能培训，主要工业家和科学家的客座讲座，以及设计和解决问题的挑战。ReNUWIt代表的参与将丰富这些活动，并为英国和美国同行之间的正式和非正式接触提供机会。该网络还将使STREAM研究工程师能够参加由RENUWIt组织的研讨会和战略对话，并/或在RENUWIt实验室进行简短的研究访问，以了解正在进行的工作和美国实验室使用的最先进的方法。RENUWIt讲习班和对话的目标是确定战略上重要的水基础设施领域中最关键的问题，由大学研究解决。除了支持年轻研究人员的跨大西洋流动外，该网络还将使STREAM和ReNUWIt的学者能够参与彼此的研讨会和培训活动，其中包括教学研究生模块，学生主导的研究课程/研讨会，以及在整个学年中举行的一系列领导力研讨会的视频会议，讨论诸如环境领导力，科学伦理，沟通，解决问题，以及研究的道德行为。最后但并非最不重要的是，该网络将整合STREAM和ReNUWIt网站，为本提案资助的网络活动的组织、内部报告和公共传播提供专门信息。这些信息除了包含两个研究计划的描述以及其主要网站的链接外，还包括有关旅行奖学金的所有必要细节，申请流程和截止日期，以及相关STREAM和ReNUWIt活动的时间表。该网站还将包括由旅游奖学金受益人撰写的有关交流活动的新闻。STREAM学者对ReNUWIt中心系列网络研讨会的贡献，以及STREAM附属成员对ReNUWIt网络研讨会的观看，将在两个卓越的水研究中心之间建立额外的虚拟桥梁。该提案所要求的额外旅行和生活资源将使STREAM和ReNUWIt成为跨大西洋水资源部门的智囊团，共同培养未来的工程人才，并在不重复现有努力的情况下为彼此的计划活动增加价值。

项目成果

Biochar and activated carbon for enhanced trace organic contaminant retention in stormwater infiltration systems.

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00376
• 发表时间: 2015-05
• 期刊: Environmental science & technology
• 影响因子: 11.4
• 作者: Bridget A. Ulrich;Eugenia Im;D. Werner;C. Higgins