PIRE: Water and Commerce- Technologies to Enable Environmental Sustainability in Global Markets

国际海上贸易、能源生产以及新材料的制造和全球流通迫切需要创造性的技术解决方案，以实现环境可持续的商业。这个跨学科的项目“水与商业：在全球市场中实现环境可持续性的技术”将进行创新研究，并在国际背景下教育年轻的美国科学家和工程师，以提供这些解决方案。参与的美国机构包括杜克大学、密歇根州立大学和北卡罗来纳州中央大学。外国合作伙伴包括伊斯坦布尔技术大学和盖布泽理工学院（土耳其）、新加坡国立大学和南洋理工大学（新加坡）以及欧洲<s:1> <s:1> <s:1> <s:1> <s:1> <s:1> <s:1> <s:1> <s:1> <s:1> <s:1> <s:1>)和环境科学研究中心（法国）。合作伙伴关系的具体目标是：(i)教育学生在国际团队中工作和管理项目；（二）与外国合作者和工业伙伴进行创新研究，以开发新的技术和方法，使水资源能够可持续发展，并对各种能源/技术组合进行生命周期评估；（三）提高对全球问题和可持续性的认识；（四）增加进入科学和工程职业的学生的数量和多样性。该项目的研究由国际研究团队组织，与工业合作伙伴一起解决能源运输和生产的关键要素，包括压载水的处理、污染诊断和指纹识别方法，以及油水分离的先进技术。生命周期评估将对能源生产和运输情景以及由该项目小组开发的技术革新所产生的影响和权衡进行多层次分析。这项工作涉及膜材料设计的基本进展，控制压载水中非本地和潜在入侵物种扩散的方法，减少石油工业对环境的影响，回收石油，以及开发一套技术来诊断和减轻石油勘探和运输的慢性和急性影响。我们的教育计划直接满足了对具有国际合作和领导能力的多样化STEM劳动力的需求。该伙伴关系将加强学术参与者与工业伙伴之间的合作，形成一个协同的工业/大学联盟，作为教育和研究的一个组成部分。与工业伙伴的合作将有助于减少技术实践，并为学生提供实习机会。学生将通过科学、工程、管理、环境政策和系统分析等严格的学习计划获得认证，这些计划强调从材料、能源和运输的角度看待商业中的环境可持续性。利用杜克大学、密歇根州立大学和国立中央大学非常成功的招生计划（86.7%的少数族裔入学率），并密切协调所有合作机构之间的研究和教育活动，将扩大代表性不足的学生群体参与多所大学和全球学习/研究活动的机会，目标是增加这些学生进入STEM相关领域的人数。该项目由NSF的国际科学与工程办公室（OISE）通过pie资助。

International maritime trade, energy production, and the manufacture and global circulation of new materials urgently require creative technological solutions to enable environmentally sustainable commerce. This interdisciplinary PIRE project Water and Commerce: Technologies to Enable Environmental Sustainability in Global Markets will perform innovative research and educate young US scientists and engineers in an international context to provide these solutions. Participating U.S. institutions are Duke University, Michigan State University, and North Carolina Central University. Foreign partners include Istanbul Technical University and Gebze Institute of Technology (Turkey), National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement (France). The specific objectives of the Partnership are to: (i) educate students to work within and manage projects executed by international teams; (ii) perform innovative research with foreign collaborators and industrial partners to develop new technologies and methods that enable the sustainability of water resources and to carry out life cycle assessments of various energy/technology mixes, (iii) develop the awareness of global issues and sustainability, and (iv) increase the number and diversity of students entering careers in science and engineering. Research within the project is organized by international research teams that engage industrial partners to address critical elements of energy transport and production including treatment of ballast water, methods for diagnosing and fingerprinting contamination, and advanced technologies for oil-water separations. Life cycle assessments will produce a multi-level analysis of impacts and trade-offs resulting from energy production and transport scenarios and from the technological innovations developed by the PIRE team. This effort addresses fundamental advances in membrane materials design, methods for controlling the dispersion of non-indigenous and potentially invasive species in ballast water, means for decreasing the environmental footprint of the oil industry, recovering oil, and developing a suite of technologies to diagnose and mitigate the chronic and acute impacts of oil exploration and transportation. Our educational program directly addresses the need for a diverse STEM workforce with the capacity for international collaboration and leadership. The Partnership will cement collaborations between academic participants and industrial partners to form a synergistic Industry/University consortium as an integral part of education and research. Collaborations with industrial partners will help reduce technologies to practice and provide students with opportunities for internships. Students will obtain certification in a rigorous plan of study in science, engineering, management, environmental policy, and systems analysis that emphasizes environmental sustainability in commerce viewed from the perspective of materials, energy and transportation. Leveraging highly successful recruitment programs at Duke, MSU and NCCU (86.7% minority enrollment) and closely coordinating research and education activities between all partner institutions will expand opportunities for underrepresented groups of students to participate in multiple university and global learning/research activities with the goal of increasing the number of these students entering into STEM related fields. The project is funded by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) through the PIRE.