MUSE: Materials and the Environment: A Binational Partnership for "Eco-Materials" Research and Education

华盛顿大学将与中国成都的四川大学合作举办一系列讲习班，为我们区域内材料加工和使用与环境相互作用领域的研究和教育制定一项协调的双边计划。该项目将在双方建立团队，在教师层面上，结合材料科学、环境设计、环境建模的计算方法以及经济学和社会科学方面的专业知识。本科生和研究生在研究和教育规划过程中的重要角色被纳入课程设计。该项目将支持两个规划研讨会，一个在西雅图，一个在成都，届时两国团队将齐聚一堂，更全面地制定研究和教育议程。合作重点有三个方面：(1)材料加工业对环境影响的区域综合产业生态模型设计；本研究的重点地区是普吉特海湾地区和四川盆地2)制定燃料电池材料研究的合作计划，特别关注交通部门；3)合作将环境问题更有效地纳入材料科学课程。作为讲习班的一个具体成果，将产生关于正在进行的伙伴关系的详细计划，这些计划可以纳入向两国的国家研究组织、私人基金会和工业部门提供更全面资助的建议

For this MUSES planning activity, the University of Washington, in collaboration with Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, will undertake a set of workshops to generate a coordinated, binational plan for research and education in the area of the interaction of materials processing and use with the environment in our regions. The project will build teams on both sides, which on the faculty level, incorporate expertise in materials science, design for the environment, computational approaches to environmental modeling, and economics and social science. Significant roles for undergraduate and graduate students in the research and educational planning process are incorporated in the program design.The program will support two planning workshops, one in Seattle and one in Chengdu, in which the binational teams will come together to more fully develop the research and educational agenda. There are three main foci for the collaboration 1) Design of comprehensive regional industrial ecology models for the effect of the materials processing industry on the environment. The regions of focus for this study are the Puget Sound Region and the Sichuan basin 2) Creation of a collaborative plan for research on materials for fuel cells, with a particular focus on the transportation sector, and; 3) Collaboration on the more effective incorporation of environmental issues in materials science curriculum.As a concrete result of the workshops, detailed plans for ongoing partnerships will be generated which can be incorporated in proposals for more comprehensive funding to national research organizations in both countries, to private foundations, and to the industrial sector