Frontiers of Molecular Design and Engineering - Junior Researcher Travel Scholarships

分子工程正在迅速崛起为一个新的工程学科，旨在解决一些人类的重大挑战，通过提供解决方案，依赖于一个自下而上的方法，其中分子概念形成的基础上提出的战略。该补助金将为25名美国初级研究人员提供部分差旅支持，以参加将于2018年9月27日至28日在芝加哥大学分子工程研究所举行的分子设计与工程前沿研讨会。研讨会将在分子工程的广泛的跨学科领域内讨论多个主题。它将为初级研究人员提供一个极好的机会，通过科学演示和与美国和国外的领先学者和专家的讨论，了解当前的最新技术水平和新兴的研究机会。 该研讨会旨在吸引约150名与会者。分子工程具有提供具有无与伦比功效和效率的新型系统、材料和设备的潜力。这是一种正在改变几乎所有传统工程领域的方法，它本质上依赖于物理学，化学，生物学和计算科学发展的交叉施肥。研究生课程旨在教育新一代的研究人员具有适当的技能，知识和多学科框架，以应对当前和未来的社会挑战。拟议的专题讨论会将提供一个论坛，以传播迄今取得的成就，并向广大工程和科学界通报研究和教育方面新出现的机会。研讨会的一个值得注意的特点是，它将专门针对对分子工程感兴趣的本科生和研究生，并使他们了解最新的发展。研讨会的主要目的是在人类面临的新兴科学和工程挑战的背景下传播分子工程的重要性和相关性。专题讨论会的形式旨在促进讨论和交流意见。这一努力的关键成果之一将是更好地理解分子沿着领域以及一套提炼出来的新需求和可能的解决方案战略。这些信息将被汇编成一份报告，提交给国家科学基金会，并发表在《分子系统设计工程》杂志上，以促进研究界的传播。研讨会的另一个重要成果是让来自全国各地、不同背景和学科的工程专业学生了解分子工程及其前景和未来。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Molecular engineering is rapidly emerging as a new engineering discipline that seeks to address some ofhumanity's grand challenges by providing solutions that rely on a bottom-up approach, where molecular concepts form the basis for proposed strategies. This grant will provide partial travel support for 25 junior US-based researchers to attend the Frontiers of Molecular Design and Engineering Symposium, that will be held on September 27-28, 2018, at the Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago. The symposium will address multiple themes within the broad interdisciplinary sphere of molecular engineering. It will provide an excellent opportunity for the junior researchers to be informed about the current state of the art of and emerging research opportunities through scientific presentations and discussions with leading scholars and experts from the US and abroad. The Symposium aims at attracting ~150 participants.Molecular engineering carries the potential to deliver novel systems, materials and devices of unparalleled efficacy and efficiency. It is an approach that is transforming almost all traditional engineering fields and which inherently depends upon cross-fertilization of developments in physics, chemistry, biology, and computational sciences. Graduate programs aim at educating a new generationof researchers with the appropriate skills, knowledge, and multidisciplinary framework to tackle current and future societal challenges. The proposed symposium will provide a forum to disseminate accomplishments to date, and to inform the engineering and scientific communities at large of emerging opportunities in research and education. A noteworthy feature of the symposium is that it will specifically target undergraduate and graduate students interested in molecular engineering and expose them to the latest developments. The primary aim of the symposium is to disseminate the importance and relevance of molecular engineering in the context of emerging scientific and engineering challenges facing humanity. The format of the symposium has been conceived to stimulate discussion and the exchange of ideas. One of the key outcomes of this effort will be a better understanding of the areas of molecular along with a distilled set of emerging needs and possible solution strategies. This information will be compiled into a report to the National Science Foundation and published in the journal Molecular Systems Design & Engineering to facilitate dissemination amongst the research community. Another, important outcome of the symposium will be to expose engineering students from across the country and from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines to molecular engineering, its promise and its future.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.