The Fourth International Congress on Sustainability Science and Engineering, Balatonfured, Hungary, May 26-29, 2015

Huang，1533966在过去的二十年里，工业界做出了巨大的努力，以提高工程系统的能源和材料效率，设计更绿色的产品和可持续的供应链，并通过提高商业可持续性来对社会更加负责。在学术界，可持续发展科学和工程已成为工程、自然科学和社会科学各学科非常活跃的研究领域。可持续性理论和可持续性评估，分析，设计和决策方法以及工具已经开发出来，其中许多用于与行业合作解决现实世界的问题。为了改善学术界和工业界之间的沟通和促进经验分享、网络和合作，每年在世界各地组织各种与可持续发展相关的会议、研讨会和讲习班。为了解决可持续发展科学和工程的更广泛问题，促进科学和技术发展的讨论，并分享工业可持续发展的研究和实践经验，一组科学家，教育工作者，工程师和政府官员决定组织第四次会议系列活动，即第四届国际可持续发展科学与工程大会（ICOSSE）。会议将于2015年5月26日至29日在匈牙利巴拉顿菲莱德举行。这是ICOSSE系列首次在国外举办活动。本次会议应提供一个很好的平台，为科学家，研究人员，以及各种物理科学，工程领域，经济学和社会科学的从业人员讨论研究和教育的挑战，分享他们的研究和实践经验，并促进网络。会议将围绕可持续发展的四个关键主题组织;它们是：可持续能源，可持续制造，可持续能源以及粮食，能源和水的关系。演讲的重点将是利用科学和工程创新，从系统的角度追求工业可持续性。该会议应有助于弥合研究与开发之间的差距，加强产业与学术界之间的联系，并探索广泛的国际合作机会。ICOSSE成为可持续发展领域的一个重要国际会议系列。与前三届不同的是，第四届ICOSSE将在欧洲举办。旅费补助应帮助美国学术与会者借此机会了解可持续发展各个领域的前沿研究，与世界级领导人和其他同事分享他们的经验，特别是欧洲和邻近地区的领导人和其他同事，并确定加强可持续工程研究和教育的国际合作机会。青年教师，年轻的研究人员，研究生和本科生，特别是那些在科学和工程中代表性不足的少数民族将被强烈鼓励参加会议。学生海报论文比赛将为他们提供一个很好的机会，展示他们的研究活动，并获得来自不同国家的领先专家的建议。计划在五种技术刊物上发表选定的论文。

Huang, 1533966Over the past two decades, industries have made tremendous efforts to improve energy and material efficiency in engineered systems, design greener products and sustainable supply chain, and become more responsible to the society through improving their business sustainability. In academia, sustainability science and engineering has become a very active area of research in various disciplines of engineering, natural and social sciences. Sustainability theories and sustainability assessment, analysis, design and decision making methodologies as well as tools have been developed, many of which are used to tackle real-world problems in collaboration with industries. To improve communications and promote experience sharing, networking, and collaboration between academia and industries, a variety of sustainability related conferences, symposiums, and workshops are organized around the world every year. To address much broader issues of sustainability science and engineering, facilitate discussions on scientific and technological development, and share research and practice experiences in industrial sustainability, a group of scientists, educators, and engineers, and governmental officers have decided to organize the fourth event of a conference series, namely The 4th International Congress on Sustainability Science and Engineering (ICOSSE). The conference will be held in Balatonfüred, Hungary on May 26-29, 2015.This is the first time for the ICOSSE series to organize an event in a foreign country. This conference should provide an excellent platform for scientist, researchers, and practitioners of various physical sciences, engineering fields, economics, and social sciences to discuss research and education challenges, share their research and practicing experience, and promote networking. The conference will be organized on four key themes in sustainability; they are: sustainable energy, sustainable manufacturing, energy for sustainability, and the nexus of food, energy, and water. The presentation focus will be on pursuing industrial sustainability from the systems perspective using scientific and engineering innovations. The conference should help bridge the gap between research and development and strengthen the linkage between industries and academia, and explore opportunities for broad international collaboration.The ICOSSE becomes a major international conference series in the sustainability field. Different from the past three ICOSSEs, this 4th event is to be held in Europe. The travel grant should help US academic attendees take this opportunity to learn the cutting-age research in various fields of sustainability, share their experience with the world class leaders and other colleagues, especially those in Europe and near regions, and identify international collaboration opportunities in strengthening sustainable engineering research and education. Junior faculty members, young researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, especially those minorities underrepresented in science and engineering will be strongly encouraged to attend the conference. Student poster paper competitions will provide a great opportunity for them to present their research activities and receive advice from leading experts from different countries. It is planned that selected papers will be published in five technical journals.