Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Resource Recovery and Recycling

普渡大学(PU)计划加入名为“资源回收与回收中心(CR3)”的产业/大学合作研究中心(I/UCRC)，该中心目前是一个由伍斯特理工学院(牵头机构)和科罗拉多矿业学院组成的多所大学中心。CR3的使命是进行研究，以实现创新的回收和再循环处理技术，最大限度地捕获消费后的废料，并将制造废料的数量降至最低。PU要求提供资金，以便在Carol Handwerker教授的领导下成为NSF资源回收和回收中心的第三个地点。拟议的网站将集中于三个主要领域：可持续电子材料、可持续产品设计和加工，以及物流、供应链和政策。普渡大学的参与将对提高电子产品的可持续性产生积极的、可衡量的影响。普渡大学的加入将通过将电子部门的行业纳入联盟来加强现有的中心。如果成功，生产更可持续的电子产品将对产品的设计和制造方式产生重大的环境、社会和技术影响。拟议的可持续电子研究有机会在全球产生影响，特别是在整合电子行业、其供应链和影响可持续发展的许多实体的需求方面。与电子行业的互动将使学生(理解全球行业问题的跨学科性质)和教师都受益，他们随后可以在可持续工业系统中设计更好的课程。扩大参与也是该网站的首要任务，中心的活动将包括代表人数不足的少数族裔和妇女。

PROGRAM DIRECTOR'S RECOMMENDATIONIIP 1035027Purdue UniversityHandwerkerPurdue University (PU) is planning to join the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) entitled "Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling (CR3)" which currently is a multi- university center comprised of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (lead institution) and the Colorado School of Mines. The mission of CR3 is to conduct research that enables innovative recovery and recycling processing technologies that maximize the capture of post-consumer's scrap and minimize the quantity of manufacturing scrap. PU requests funding for becoming a third site of the NSF Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling under the leadership of Professor Carol Handwerker. The proposed site will focus on three thrust areas: Sustainable Electronic Materials, Sustainable Product Design and Processing, and Logistics, Supply Chain and Policy. Purdue University's participation will have a positive, measurable impact on improving the sustainability of electronic products. The addition of Purdue University will strengthen the existing Center by bringing into the consortium industries in the electronic sector. If successful, producing more sustainable electronics will have a substantial environmental, social and technological impact on the way products are designed and manufactured. The proposed research in sustainable electronics has the opportunity for global impact, particularly in integrating the needs of the electronics industry, its supply chain, and the many entities that affect sustainability. The interactions with the electronics industry will benefit both the students (in understanding the interdisciplinary nature of global industry problems) and the faculty who can subsequently design a better curriculum in sustainable industrial systems. Broadening participation is also a top priority for this site, and will involve underrepresented minorities and women within the Center activities.