Collaborative/Workshop: Global Conference on Sustainable Product Development and Life Cycle Engineering; Technical Unversity Berlin; Berlin, Germany; 29 Sep 04 to 1 Oct 04

该奖项支持一个国际研讨会，该研讨会将于9月29日至10月1日在德国柏林工业大学举行。该研讨会是一个“全球可持续产品开发和生命周期工程会议”，由柏林理工大学和德国的Forshungsgomeinschaft共同赞助。会议的目的是评估与之前NSF赞助的WTEC研究相比，环境无害设计和制造的最新水平，评估该领域研究和应用之间的差距；为迈向可持续产品和企业提出建议；并确定欧盟和美国研究团队之间潜在合作的具体领域。研讨会将包括主题演讲、讨论五个主题领域的分组会议，以及跨主题的圆桌会议，以产生主题领域的综合，并为美国和欧盟的研究人员提供网络机会。资金包括对一直在进行EBDM研究的美国参与者的支持。该奖项的更广泛影响包括确定障碍并创造研究机会以消除EBDM对未来可持续产品创造的这些障碍的影响。这将直接影响材料和资源的使用，并将为工业提供必要的工具，通过全生命周期评估的进展，做出更好地解决环境影响的决策。讲习班还将讨论教育问题，以便分享当前的教学和经验模块，并确定新的教育需求。潜在研究的影响也跨越了许多学科--机械工程、工业工程、环境工程、材料科学和经济学。

This award supports an international workshop, to be held in Germany at the Technical University of Berlin September 29 through October 1. The workshop is a "Global Conference on Sustainable Product Development and Life-Cycle Engineering" and is co-sponsored by TU Berlin and the German Deutsch Forshungsgemeinschaft. The objectives of the conference are to assess the state-of-the -art of Environmentally Benign Design and Manufacturing as compared to the previous NSF sponsored WTEC study, to assess the gap between research and applications in the field; to develop recommendations for moving towards sustainable products and enterprises; and to identify specific areas of potential collaboration between the EU and the US research teams. The workshop will include keynote talks, breakout sessions for discussion of five topical areas, and roundtable sessions across themes to generate synthesis across the topical areas and provide networking opportunities for the US and EU researchers. Funding includes support for participants from the US who have been conducting research in EBDM. The broader impacts of this award include the impact that identifying the barriers and creating research opportunties to remove these barriers that EBDM will have on the future creation of sustainable products. This will directly affect materials and resource use, and will provide industry with the tools necessary to make decisions that better address environmental impacts through advances in total life cycle assessment. The Workshop will also address education issues so that current teaching and experiential modules can be shared, and new educational needs identified. The impact for potential research also crossed numerous disciplines - mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, environmental engineering, materials science, and economics.