Workshop to Develop A Strategic Plan for Cold Regions Engineering Research in the New Millennium

要求美国国家科学基金会提供资金，通过召集一群专门从事寒冷地区工程的执业工程师、大学教师和政府专业人员，将他们划分为兴趣小组，并允许他们集体确定和阐明具体的研究主题，并描述在本世纪初应开展的必要研究工作，从而举办研讨会。建议在阿拉斯加大学安克雷奇校区举办讲习班，以最大限度地减少举办讲习班的费用，并使寒冷地区工程专业人士的参与更加充分。研讨会的成果将是提交给国家科学基金会的一份报告，随后将分发给研讨会的参与者、未能参加的其他寒冷地区工程专业人员和适当的联邦机构。该报告有望指导寒冷地区工程界的研究工作，鼓励教职员工撰写研究提案以进行必要的研究，并指导联邦和州机构资助与报告中确定的研究需求相关的研究提案。

NSF Funding is requested to conduct a Workshop by assembling a group of practicing engineers, university faculty, and government professionals specializing in cold regions engineering, dividing them into interest groups, and allowing them to collectively identify and elucidate specific research topics and describe needed research work which should be performed at the beginning of this millennium. It is proposed that the Workshop be held at the University of Alaska-Anchorage campus to minimize the costs to conduct the Workshop and mazimize the participation from the cold regions engineering professionals community. The deliverable from the Workshop will be a report to NSF, which will subsequently be distributed to the participants at the Workshop, other cold regions engineering professionals who were not able to attend, and appropriate federal agencies. The report will hopefully guide research efforts in the cold regions engineering community, encourage faculty members to write research proposals to conduct needed research, and direct federal and state agencies to fund research proposals which relate to research needs identified in the report.