Student Travel Grant - 2016 Spring Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute

参加技术会议的经验对学生非常有益。这些经验不仅有助于学生的专业发展，还将激发他们在制定未来研究方向时的批判性思维。这一奖励是为了部分资助研究生和本科生参加燃烧研究所东方州分会2016年春季技术会议的旅费。本次会议是燃烧科学与工程领域最重要的地区性会议之一。这次会议的报告代表了燃烧领域的最新研究成果。会议通过全体讲座和口头陈述促进了燃烧研究成果的交流。由于其对能源转换、环境质量和气候影响的影响，对燃烧过程和实际燃烧系统的了解对社会至关重要。在会议上交换信息提高了研究突破的速度，以使燃烧更高效、更清洁，燃料更灵活。这次会议的一个特别焦点是研究生和本科生：为这些学生提供展示和获得关于他们研究的反馈的机会，并举办一个研讨会，提高他们的“软技能”，如口头陈述和技术写作技能。这项奖励将用于抵消非本地学生的旅费，以努力增加学生参加会议的人数，特别是来自代表人数不足的机构的学生，这些机构可能没有足够的资金来完全支持学生参加会议。

CBET-1623659, MuellerExperiences in attending technical conferences are extremely beneficial to students. These experiences will not only help with the students' professional development, but also stimulate their critical thinking in formulating future research directions. This award is to partially support the travel expenses of graduate and undergraduate students in attending the 2016 Spring Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute. This conference is one of the most important regional conferences on combustion science and engineering. Presentations in this conference represent the most updated research outcome in combustion. The conference facilitates the exchange of combustion research results through plenary lectures and oral presentations. Due to its effect on energy conversion, environmental quality, and climate effects, understanding of combustion processes and practical combustion systems is of paramount importance to society. Exchange of information at conferences increases the rate at which research breakthroughs can be made to make combustion more efficient and cleaner with fuel-flexibility. A particular focus of this conference is on graduate and undergraduate students: providing an opportunity for these students to present and get feedback on their research and running a workshop that enhances their "soft skills" such as oral presentation and technical writing skills. This award will be used to offset the travel expenses of non-local students in an effort to increase student participation at the meeting, particularly students from underrepresented institutions that may not have the financial means to fully support student travel to conferences.