U.S. NSF - China NSF Workshop on Sustainable Manufacturing, Wuhan, China, March 13-15, 2014

该奖项为将于2014年3月13日至15日在武汉中国举办的可持续制造研讨会提供部分支持。此次研讨会旨在确定高优先级的具体研究目标，与美国研究人员和中国研究人员在没有美国和中国合作的情况下单独工作相比，美国和中国合作的研究团队可以更好地实现这些目标。在这次研讨会中，美国和中国的研究人员将确定高度优先的可持续制造研究目标，并确定可能由美国国家科学基金会和中国国家科学基金会共同资助的相关合作研究项目领域。该研讨会旨在广泛和深入地讨论机械/化学可持续制造关键领域的挑战、机遇和合作。来自每个国家的参与者都是机械、化学、工业、材料、土木工程和环境工程领域的领先/活跃学者。专题领域包括(1)可持续产品和工艺以及(2)可持续制造系统。这些主题领域将涵盖最前沿的研究课题，如资源效率和效益的产品设计创新，最小生态足迹的制造工艺和设备设计，智能制造，快速及时的绿色生产，以及可持续供应链和产业生态。此次研讨会将极大地帮助美方代表了解中国在可持续制造方面的研究，并确定与中方同事开展高层合作的机会。由于研讨会是为多学科讨论而设计的，其目标是确定可持续制造的前沿领域，并制定有效的跨学科合作计划。美国代表团由各级学者组成，其中包括来自代表性不足群体的学者。该奖项由NSF国际科学与工程部(ISE)的全球风险基金(GVF)以及NSF工程部的CMMI和CBET部门共同出资。

1421191HuangThis award provides partial support for a workshop on sustainable manufacturing to be held in Wuhan, China, March 13-15, 2014. This workshop is targeted to identify high-priority specific research objectives that can be pursued significantly better by collaborative U.S. - China research teams than by U.S. researchers and China researchers working separately without U.S. - China collaboration. In this workshop, U.S. and China researchers will define high-priority sustainable manufacturing research objectives and identify related collaborative research project areas that are potentially fundable jointly by the U.S. NSF and China NSF. The workshop is designed for broad and in-depth discussions of challenges, opportunities, and collaborations in critical areas of mechanical/chemical sustainable manufacturing. Participants from each country are leading/active scholars in mechanical, chemical, industrial, material, civil and environmental engineering. Thematic areas include (i) sustainable products and processes and (ii) sustainable manufacturing systems. These thematic areas will cover most frontier research topics, such as product design innovations for resource efficiency and effectiveness, manufacturing process and equipment design with minimum ecological footprints, smart manufacturing, fast and in-time green production, and sustainable supply chain and industrial ecology. This workshop should help greatly U.S. delegates to gain a clear understanding of research on sustainable manufacturing in China, and identify high-level collaboration opportunities with Chinese colleagues. As the workshop is designed for multidisciplinary discussions, it is targeted to lead to identification of cutting-edge areas in sustainable manufacturing and a plan for effective interdisciplinary collaboration. The U.S. delegation is formed of academic scholars of all ranks, including scholars from underrepresented groups. This award is co-funded by the Global Venture Fund (GVF) of NSF's International Science and Engineering section (ISE), as well as the CMMI and CBET divisions of NSF's Engineering Directorate.