Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD-2014)

PI：Eden，Mario R.Proposal#：1440108机构：奥本大学题目：计算机辅助工艺设计基础(FOCAPD-2014)概述这笔赠款是为参加第八届计算机辅助工艺设计基础国际会议FOCAPD-2014的研究生、博士后助理和美国初级教师讲师提供部分资金，该会议将于2014年7月13-17日在华盛顿州克莱埃勒姆的Suncadia Resort举行。这次会议由CACHE和AIChE CAST分部主办。2014年论坛的主题是“在工艺和产品设计的交界处进行可持续发展的创新”，反映了化学工艺和产品设计对传统化学工艺内以及在传统工艺与非传统领域的交界处的可持续性的持续重视。FOCAPD-2014的主要目标是创建学术和工业对话，对现有使能技术进行批判性评估，讨论研究、教育和工业需求，并为产品和工艺设计的新方向、新挑战和新机遇建立一个论坛。FOCAPD-2014会议将包括两次主旨演讲、25次世界知名专家的全体演讲、八名初级教员参加的未来挑战会议，以及三次投稿论文会议。这次会议的目标是吸引150多名与会者和100多篇来稿。预计FOCAPD-2014会议将是一次激动人心的会议，将在未来几年产生持久的影响。技术描述智力优点：1.FOCAPD-2014将汇聚并促进来自学术界和工业界的世界知名专家、来自政府实验室和几个行业的研究人员和从业者、研究生和博士后协会之间的互动。FOCAPD-2014将为以下主题创建一个技术和科学论坛：综合产品和工艺设计；设计中的使能技术：建模、模拟、优化方法和应用、操作；能源和环境方面的产品和工艺设计；产品和工艺设计方面的教育、培训和工业需求；以及包括系统生物学在内的产品和工艺设计前沿领域的挑战和机遇。周四下午的特别会议将有八名优秀的初级教员参加，他们专注于定义可持续化学产品和工艺设计前沿的新挑战和新机遇。FOCAPD-2014将促进定义可持续化学产品和工艺设计领域的新问题和挑战，这些问题和挑战将受到不断变化的工业需求和原料供应的推动。广泛影响：1.FOCAPD-2014将旨在吸引产品/工艺设计领域的下一代研究人员，这反映在研究生和博士后协会中。该会议将作为传播可持续化学产品和工艺设计最新水平的工具，通过其完全编入索引和可引用的议事程序，包括全体会议和提交的论文、其网站，以及更重要的是，通过关于研究、教育、培训和工业需求的非正式讨论。化工、石化、制药、制造和服务/软件行业将受益于通过计算机辅助产品和工艺设计发现的新方法、新问题和新技术。这些技术将带来更好的产品，更快地响应消费者需求，更有效地利用制造设施，这对美国经济有直接好处。

PI: Eden, Mario R.Proposal #: 1440108Institution: Auburn UniversityTitle: Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD-2014)OverviewThis grant is to provide funds for partial support of graduate students, postdoctoral associates and US academic junior faculty speakers to attend the 8th International Conference on Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design, FOCAPD-2014, which will be held at the Suncadia Resort, Cle Elum, Washington July 13-17, 2014. The conference is sponsored by CACHE and the AIChE CAST Division. The major theme of FOCAPD-2014, "Innovation for Sustainability at the Interface of Process and Product Design", reflects an ongoing emphasis of chemical process and product design on sustainability both within traditional chemical processes and at the interface of traditional processes with non-traditional areas. The primary goal of FOCAPD-2014 is to create an academic and industrial dialogue, a critical assessment of existing enabling technologies, a discussion of research, education, and industrial needs, and a forum for new directions, challenges and opportunities in product and process design. The FOCAPD-2014 conference will feature two keynote lectures, 25 plenary lectures by world-renowned experts, a future challenges session featuring eight junior faculty, and three contributed paper sessions. The conference aims at attracting over 150 participants and over 100 contributed papers. It is expected that the FOCAPD-2014 conference will be an exciting meeting that will have a lasting impact for years to come.Technical DescriptionIntellectual Merit:1. FOCAPD-2014 will bring together and foster interaction among world-renowned experts from academia and industry, researchers and practitioners from government laboratories and several industries, graduate students, and post-doctoral associates.2. FOCAPD-2014 will create a technical and scientific forum for the topics of integrated product and process design; enabling technologies in design: modeling, simulation, optimization methods and applications, operations; product and process design for energy and the environment; education, training and industrial needs in product and process design; and challenges and opportunities in frontiers of product and process design that include systems biology.3. A special session on Thursday afternoon will feature eight outstanding junior faculty focusing on defining the new challenges and opportunities at the frontiers of sustainable chemical product and process design.4. FOCAPD-2014 will foster the definition of new problems and challenges in the areas of sustainable chemical product and process design that will be motivated by changing industrial needs and feedstock availability.Broader Impacts:1. FOCAPD-2014 will aim at attracting the next generation of researchers in the product/process design area that is reflected in the graduate students and postdoctoral associates.2. The conference will serve as a vehicle for dissemination of the state of the art in sustainable chemical product and process design through its fully indexed and citable proceedings that will include the plenary and contributed papers, its website, and more importantly through the informal discussions on research, education, training and industrial needs.3. The chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and services/software industries will benefit by the introduction of new approaches, problems and technologies for discovery through computer-aided product and process design. Such technologies will lead to better products, faster response to consumer demands and more efficient utilization of manufacturing facilities, which has a direct benefit to the US economy.