US-Afganistan Workshops: Education and Research Partnership Between US and Afghan Universities in Geosciences and Geoengineering, September 2009

0961029 Smeallie描述：该项目支持Peter Smeallie（美国岩石力学协会基金会，弗吉尼亚州亚历山大市）和Ezatullah Amed博士（阿富汗喀布尔喀布尔理工大学校长）的合作项目。 该项目的目标是支持美国-阿富汗地球科学和地球工程研究和教育活动讲习班。 具体而言，让美国科学家参加2009年9月27日至10月1日在喀布尔举行的第二次Hid Kush会议。 这次会议将涉及广泛的议题，包括：地质学和地球物理学、土壤和岩石力学、土木和采矿工程、水文地质学、环境保护和灾害管理。 还将让阿富汗科学家参加2010年6月在湖城的第43届美国岩石力学研讨会，并最终于2011年春季在喀布尔举行一次研讨会。 拟议的伙伴关系在一个已成立的组织-美国岩石力学协会（阿尔马）的主持下有着良好的技术基础。阿尔马准备好启动和促进美国和阿富汗研究人员之间的关系。 开发和验证有用的地质力学模型需要反映广泛条件的现场相关数据。 与阿富汗大学的伙伴关系将提供获取地质条件和数据的独特途径，这些条件和数据可以为现有模型提供至关重要的基本事实，并为开发更强大的新本构模型奠定基础。 参与该项目的美国人员在促进合作方面有着良好的记录，这些合作推动了岩石力学的研究议程，同时对教育产生了综合影响。 其中，Bernard Amadei博士与人合著了两本书和大约160篇岩石力学和工程地质方面的技术论文。他也是无国界工程师组织的创始人。美国（www.ewb-usa.org）和国际工程师无国界组织（www.ewb-international.org）的联合创始人。这些组织已成为关键工具，将服务学习纳入课程中的许多colleages.Broader影响：有美国和阿富汗之间的专业学术关系很少。虽然该项目的重点是在地质学和岩石力学领域建立研究联系，但预计它可能会导致在科学和工程的相关领域建立类似的伙伴关系。 例如，部分支助的目标是参加将在阿富汗喀布尔举行的第二次兴都库什会议。除了岩石力学和地质学，本次会议将包括专门讨论林业，环境科学和气候变化的会议。 该项目由土木、机械、制造业创新司和国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。

0961029 SmeallieDescription: This project supports a cooperative project by the Peter Smeallie, American Rock Mechanics Association Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia and Dr. Ezatullah Amed, Chancellor of the Kabul Polytechnic University in Kabul, Afghanistan. The objective of the project is to support US-Afghanistan Workshops on Research and Educational Activities in Geosciences and Geoengineering. Specifically, to have US scientists participate in the Second Hid Kush Conference in Kabul between September 27 and October 1, 2009. That meeting will cover a broad range of topics including: geology and geophysics, soil and rock mechanics, civil and mining engineering, hydrogeology, environmental protection and disaster management. Also to have Afghan scientists attend the 43rd US Rock Mechanics Symposium in Salt Lake City in June 2010, and finally to have a workshop in Kabul in the spring of 2011.Intellectual merit: The proposed partnership has a sound technical basis under the auspices of an established organization, the American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA). ARMA is well poised to initiate and catalyze relationships between US and Afghan researchers. The development and verification of useful geomechanical models requires field-relevant data that reflects a wide spectrum of conditions. The partnership with Afghan universities will provide unique access to geological conditions and data that can provide vital ground truth to existing models as well as a basis for the development of new constitutive models which are more robust. The US personnel involved in this project have an excellent track record of fostering collaborations that advance the research agenda in rock mechanics while having an integrated impact on education. One of them, Dr. Bernard Amadei has co-authored two books and approximately 160 technical papers in rock mechanics and engineering geology. He is also the Founding President of Engineers Without Borders ? USA (www.ewb-usa.org) and co-founder of Engineers Without Borders-International (www.ewb-international.org). These organizations have become key instruments to incorporate service learning into the curriculum in many colleges of engineering.Broader impacts: There are very few professional academic relationships between the US and Afghanistan. Although this project focuses on establishing research connections within the field of geology and rock mechanics, it is anticipated that it may lead to similar partnerships in allied fields of science and engineering. For example, part of the support is targeted toward participation in the Second Hindu Kush Conference, to be held in Kabul, Afghanistan. In addition to rock mechanics and geology, this conference will include sessions devoted to forestry, environmental science and climate change. This project is funded jointly be the Division of Civil, Mechanical, Manufacturing Innovations and the Office of International Science and Engineering.