The 6th International Congress on Sustainability Science and Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, October 2017

在过去的二十年里，工业在提高工程系统的能源和材料效率，设计更环保的产品和可持续的供应链方面做出了巨大的努力，并通过提高其业务的可持续性对社会负责。可持续发展科学与工程已成为工程、自然科学和社会科学各个学科的一个活跃研究领域。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。为了加强交流，促进学术界、政府和工业界之间的经验分享、网络和合作，世界各地每年都会组织各种与可持续发展相关的会议、专题讨论会和讲习班。为了解决更广泛的可持续发展科学和工程问题，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，一群科学家，教育家，工程师和政府官员组织了一系列会议的第六次活动，即第六届国际可持续发展科学与工程大会（ICOSSE 17）。会议将于2017年10月在西班牙巴塞罗那举行。这是ICOSSE系列第三次在国际环境中组织活动。会议的范围正在迅速扩大。会议围绕三个关键主题：向可持续生活的过渡，制造业和加工业的可持续技术，以及将可持续发展纳入主流。具体主题包括过程强化、绿色化学、食物-能源-水的关系以及可持续发展教育的进展。会议弥合了研究与开发之间的差距，加强了产业界与学术界之间的联系，同时探索了广泛的国际合作机会。该会议将与第十届世界化学工程大会同时在欧洲举行。此次旅行资助将帮助美国学者有机会了解可持续发展各个领域的前沿研究，与世界一流的领导者和其他同事，特别是欧洲地区的同行分享他们的经验，并寻找加强可持续工程研究和教育的国际合作机会。我们强烈鼓励初级教师、年轻研究人员、研究生和本科生，特别是那些来自科学和工程领域代表性不足的少数群体的学生参加会议。学生海报论文比赛将为学生提供一个展示他们的研究活动的机会，并听取来自不同国家的顶尖专家的建议。为了传播结果，选定的论文将提交给五个技术期刊。

Proposal: 1743631PI: Kimberly OgdenOver the past two decades industries have made significant efforts to improve energy and material efficiency in engineered systems, design greener products and sustainable supply chains, and become more responsible to the society through improving their business sustainability. Sustainability science and engineering has become an 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, government, and industry, 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 organized the sixth event of a conference series, namely the 6th International Congress on Sustainability Science and Engineering (ICOSSE 17). The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain in October 2017. This is the third time for the ICOSSE series to organize an event in an international setting. The breadth of the conference is rapidly expanding. The conference is organized on three key themes: transition to sustainable living, sustainable technologies in manufacturing and processing industries, and bringing sustainability into the mainstream. Specific topics include process intensification, green chemistry, the food-energy-water nexus, and advances in sustainability education. The conference bridges the gap between research and development and strengthens the linkage between industry and academia, while exploring opportunities for broad international collaboration. This meeting will be held in Europe concurrently with the 10th World Congress of Chemical Engineering. The travel grant will help US academic attendees take this opportunity to learn the cutting-edge research in various fields of sustainability, share their experience with world-class leaders and other colleagues, especially those in European region, and identify international collaboration opportunities in strengthening sustainable engineering research and education. Junior faculty members, young researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, especially those from underrepresented minority groups in science and engineering will be strongly encouraged to attend the conference. Student poster paper competitions will provide an opportunity for students to present their research activities and receive advice from leading experts from different countries. To disseminate results, selected papers will be submitted to five technical journals.