Scaling Up Sustainability Awareness, Impact, and Training within the Materials Science and Engineering Community

材料科学将在解决我们社会在未来几年将继续面临的许多关键挑战方面发挥关键作用，包括提供可持续的能源，水，产品，服务，交通，建筑和公共基础设施。可持续发展的新方法将需要具有技术专长并了解材料科学与其他学科之间复杂相互关系的材料研究人员。作为材料研究人员的首要专业协会，材料研究协会（MRS）完全有能力帮助材料科学家应对这些挑战。多年来，MRS一直在这一领域建立一个强大的实践社区。认识到可持续性在材料科学中的关键和跨领域作用，MRS于2016年成立了可持续发展小组委员会。该提案旨在建立和扩大MRS内可持续性活动和规划的范围，以及增加MRS内外对整个材料科学界的可持续性影响。MRS关注可持续性小组委员会沿着两个工作组将执行三个重点，包括：（1）提高MRS对可持续性的认识和理解;（2）提升MRS可持续性工作的影响;（3）培训下一代材料科学家，将可持续性纳入他们的工作。 可持续发展的意识和理解将通过会议与会者通过多种途径参与，包括游戏化，讲义，视频和社交媒体来提高，2019年MRS春季会议的特殊网络活动和计划将寻求让140名能源和可持续发展研讨会组织者参与MRS更广泛的可持续发展工作。MRS可持续性工作的影响将通过建立在成功的一系列高姿态，跨学科可持续性主题的小组讨论，以及开始一项新的努力，邀请演讲者就与可持续性交叉的有针对性的热门话题发言来提升。一系列新的研讨会将培训材料科学家更全面地将可持续性纳入他们的研究。最后，对材料科学课程可持续性现状的背景研究将为长期的改革努力提供信息。总之，这些努力有可能增加可持续性在材料科学研究中的作用，并为更全面地考虑可持续性的材料科学新方法提供信息。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。

Materials science will play a pivotal role in solving many of the key challenges our society will continue to face in the coming years, including providing a sustainable supply of energy, water, products, services, transportation, buildings, and public infrastructure. New approaches to sustainable development will require materials researchers who have technical expertise and understand the complex interrelationships between materials science and other disciplines. As the premier professional society for materials researchers, the Materials Research Society (MRS) is well positioned to help materials scientists address these challenges. MRS has been building a robust community of practice in this area for many years. In recognition of the critical and cross-cutting role of sustainability in materials science, MRS established the Focus on Sustainability Subcommittee in 2016. This proposal seeks to build on and expand the scope of sustainability activities and programming within MRS, as well as to increase the impact of sustainability within MRS and beyond to the entire materials science community.The MRS Focus on Sustainability Subcommittee, along with two task forces, will execute three thrusts including: (1) enhancing awareness and understanding of sustainability across MRS; (2) elevating the impact of sustainability efforts within MRS; and (3) training the next generation of materials scientists to incorporate sustainability in their work. Awareness and understanding of sustainability will be enhanced by meeting attendee engagement through multiple routes, including gamification, handouts, video, and social media, and a special networking event and program at the 2019 MRS Spring Meeting will seek to engage 140 energy and sustainability symposium organizers in the MRS broader sustainability efforts. The impact of the MRS sustainability efforts will be elevated by building on the successful series of high profile, panel discussions on interdisciplinary sustainability topics, as well as starting a new effort to bring in invited speakers on targeted hot topics that intersect with sustainability. A set of new workshops will train materials scientists to more comprehensively incorporate sustainability in their research. Finally, background research on the current status of sustainability in materials science curricula will inform a longer-term reform effort. Together, these efforts have the potential to increase the role of sustainability in materials science research and to inform new approaches to materials science that more completely take sustainability into account.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.