2009 AEESP Conference and CAREER Workshop - Grand Challenges in Environmental Engineering and Science: Research and Education

在过去的50年里，环境工程和科学领域以及公共卫生领域在处理饮用水供应、提供安全的废水输送和改善空气质量方面取得了显著进展。但在接下来的几十年里，等待我们的是什么未来的重大挑战？哪些环境研究领域对应对这些挑战最为关键？2050年，世界人口接近90亿，世界生产总值是今天的2-4倍，环境科学家和工程师肯定会在社会上发挥重要作用。我们能否改善未来的结果，在很大程度上将取决于我们的学生，下一代环境专业人员。2009年AEESP会议旨在为AEESP作为一个社区提供一个论坛，讨论挑战，并更好地为环境工程教师和学生做好应对这些挑战的准备。美国国家科学院(2001年)和国家工程院(2002年)都确定了以下环境重大挑战，这些挑战为重大技术、科学和社会突破提供了潜力：1.了解人类对主要生物地球化学循环的影响2。预测水生灾害和疾病的发生率3。评估气候变化的影响。提高我们预测水资源和水质变化的能力。设计生态可持续城市6。理解和预测水文循环过程7。量化土地利用/覆盖与水生态系统质量的关系8。重新发明材料的使用(成为污染物)会议围绕大挑战组织，每个挑战有一次会议，有一名主旨演讲者，一名学生获奖演讲者，以及六到八名额外的发言者。每一次会议将是研究和教育讲座的混合体，这是这项提案的一个创新和令人兴奋的方面。通过在每一次会议中结合讲座，我们希望突出研究与教育相结合的成功范例。此外，我们将举办几个研讨会，重点是期待通过改进研究和教育来应对这些重大挑战的新方法。具体的研讨会将讨论如何加强我们的研究生教育项目，以及我们和我们学生的生产力。作为2009年AEESP会议的一部分，面向环境工程和科学的年轻助理教授的职业研讨会的主要目标是向与会者介绍NSF职业奖提案过程，并鼓励关于作为环境工程和科学终身教职员工的个人和职业成长的讨论。

0902002MattesThe fields of environmental engineering and science, as well as public health, have made remarkable progress in treating drinking water supplies, providing for safe conveyance of wastewater, and improving air quality over the past 50 years. But what future grand challenges await us over the next few decades? And which areas of environmental research are most critical to address these challenges? In 2050, with almost 9 billion people and a Gross World Product 2-4 times larger than today, environmental scientists and engineers are sure to play an important role in society. Whether we can improve the future outcome will depend to a large extent on our students, the next generation of environmental professionals. The 2009 AEESP Conference is to provide a forum for AEESP, as a community, to discuss challenges and to better prepare environmental engineering faculty and students to tackle these challenges. Both the National Academy of Sciences (2001) and the National Academy of Engineers (2002) have identified the following environmental Grand Challenges which offer the potential for major technological, scientific, and societal breakthroughs: 1. Understanding human impacts on major biogeochemical cycles2. Forecasting incidence of water-borne hazards and disease3. Assessing effects of climate change4. Improving our ability to predict changes in water resources and quality5. Designing ecologically sustainable cities6. Understanding and forecasting hydrologic cycle processes7. Quantifying relationship of land-use/cover to aquatic ecosystem quality8. Reinventing the use of materials (that become pollutants)The conference is organized around the Grand Challenges, with each challenge having one session with a keynote speaker, a student award speaker, and six to eight additional speakers. Each session will be a mix of both research and education talks, which is an innovative, exciting aspect of this proposal. By combining the talks within each session, we hope to highlight successful examples of integrating research and education. In addition, we will offer several workshops focused on looking forward to new ways to address these Grand Challenges through improved research and education. Specific workshops will discuss strategies to enhance our graduate education programs, as well as our and our student's productivity.The principal objective of the career workshop for young assistant professors in environmental engineering and science, a part of the 2009 AEESP conference, is to inform participants about the NSF CAREER Award proposal process and to stimulate discussion concerning personal and professional growth as a tenure-track faculty member in environmental engineering and science.