Conference Proposal: Early-Career Researcher Travel Support for 26th CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference May 7-9, 2019

在本次生命周期工程大会(LCE)上，研究人员、教育工作者和政策制定者将会面并探索工程和技术解决方案，以应对可持续发展的挑战。普渡大学环境与生态工程(EEE)系将于2019年5月主办这次会议。LCE 2019的主题是“推进工业可持续发展”。这次会议将有学生、博士后和初级教职员工的大量参与。吸引年轻研究人员参与开发创造性和颠覆性的工业可持续发展解决方案至关重要。资金将支持来自美国各地的早期职业研究人员，特别是那些来自代表不足的群体的研究人员参加LCE2019年的旅行。解决复杂的工业可持续发展挑战只能通过跨学科和跨学科的方法来开发。在自然科学家、工程师、社会科学家、行业代表和政策制定者的参与下，预计2019年LCE将为与会者提供一个极好的论坛，让他们分享他们的发现和意见，进而有助于加强对这些挑战的整体理解。2019年LCE还将作为一个充满活力的场所，促进想法的产生和交叉授粉，并让利益攸关方定义生命周期工程领域的关键下一步步骤和研究议程。预计2019年LCE将解决关键的知识差距，并扩大工业可持续发展界的参与。尽管美国工业可持续发展社区在过去十年中增长非常快，但欧盟和日本的研究社区规模仍然较大，在许多领域都处于领先地位。LCE 2019致力于向世界知名专家展示在美国完成的尖端研究，特别是年轻研究人员的研究。预计250多名与会者将通过纸质和海报演示以及正式和非正式讨论来分享他们的工作。在NSF的旅行支持下，将有可能带来多达65名来自美国研究所的早期职业研究人员参加会议，来自代表性不足群体的研究人员将被优先考虑。所有会议论文将在Procedia CIRP(Elsevier)上发表。会议将包括关于教/学的会议，教育工作者和学生可以在其中讨论愿景、方法和挑战。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

In this Life Cycle Engineering Conference (LCE), researchers, educators, and policy makers will meet and explore engineering and technical solutions to address sustainable development challenges. The Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE) Department at Purdue University will host this conference in May 2019. The theme of LCE 2019 is "Advancing Industrial Sustainability". The conference will have significant participation from students, postdocs, and junior faculty members. It is critical to engage young researchers in developing creative and disruptive solutions for industrial sustainability. Funding will support travel of early career researchers, especially those from underrepresented groups, from across the United States to attend LCE 2019.Solutions to the complex industrial sustainability challenges can only be developed via inter- and transdisciplinary approaches. With participation of natural scientists, engineers, social scientists, industry representatives, and policy makers, it is anticipated that LCE 2019 will provide an excellent forum for participants to share their findings and opinions which in turn contributes to enhance the holistic understanding of these challenges. LCE 2019 will also serve as a dynamic venue to promote the generation and cross pollination of ideas and for stakeholders to define the critical next steps and research agenda in the area of life cycle engineering. It is anticipated that LCE 2019 will address key knowledge gaps and broaden participation of the industrial sustainability community. Although the U.S. industrial sustainability community has grown very fast in the past decade, the research communities in EU and Japan are still larger with leaders in many areas. LCE 2019 strives to showcase cutting-edge research done in the U.S., especially those of young researchers, to world renowned experts. It is expected that a diverse group of over 250 participants will share their work through both paper and poster presentations, as well as formal and informal discussions. With the NSF travel support, it will be possible to bring up to 65 early career researchers from U.S. institutes to the conference and priority will be given to researchers from underrepresented groups. All the conference papers will be published in Procedia CIRP (Elsevier). The conference will include sessions on teaching/learning where educators and students can discuss visions, approaches, and challenges.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.