Connecting the UK Industrial Doctorate Centre for the Water Sector (STREAM) with the US Urban Water Engineering Research Center (ReNUWIt)

英国和美国的研究委员会已作出重大投资，通过（分别）640万英镑的工业博士学位中心为英国水部门（STREAM）和1850万美元的工程研究中心（ERC）为重塑国家的城市水基础设施（ReNUWIt）的未来水工程干部的培训。该网络提案寻求额外的差旅和生活津贴资源，以利用这两个主要研究和培训活动之间的潜在协同作用，使博士生、早期职业研究人员和每个英才中心的学术人员能够互动和交流想法、知识、技能和研究成果。跨大西洋网络将在纽卡斯尔、克兰菲尔德、谢菲尔德、埃克塞特、伦敦帝国理工学院、斯坦福大学、新墨西哥州、加州伯克利、和科罗拉多矿业学院。该网络将使ReNUWIt博士生和博士后代表团由ReNUWIt学术领导参加2013/2014/2015挑战周。2015年每年在另一所STREAM大学举办。挑战周汇集了在STREAM保护伞下工作的研究工程师，学者和工业合作伙伴的不同群体，包括团队建设练习，高级可转移技能培训，来自领先的工业家和科学家的客座讲座，以及设计和解决问题的挑战。ReNUWIt代表的参与将丰富这些活动，并为英国和美国同行之间的正式和非正式接触提供机会。该网络还将使STREAM研究工程师能够参与RENUWIt组织的研讨会和战略对话，并/或对RENUWIt实验室进行简短的研究访问，以了解美国实验室正在进行的工作和最先进的方法。RENUWIT研讨会和对话的目标是确定具有重要战略意义的水基础设施领域中最关键的问题，以通过大学研究加以解决。除了支持年轻研究人员的跨大西洋流动，该网络还将使STREAM和ReNUWIt学者能够参与彼此的研讨会和培训活动，其中包括教授的研究生模块，学生主导的研究课程/研讨会，以及视频会议可访问的领导力系列研讨会整个学年发生，并解决诸如环境领导力，科学道德，沟通，解决问题和研究的道德行为。最后但并非最不重要的是，该网络将整合STREAM和ReNUWIt网站，提供专门用于组织、内部报告和公开传播本提案资助的网络活动的信息。这些信息将包含，除了两个研究计划的描述与链接到他们的主要网站，所有有关旅行奖学金，应用程序和截止日期，相关STREAM和ReNUWIt事件的时间表必要的细节。该网站还将包括由旅行奖学金受益人撰写的有关交流活动的新闻。STREAM学者对ReNUWIt中心网络研讨会系列的贡献，以及STREAM附属成员观看ReNUWIt网络研讨会，将在两个卓越的水研究中心之间建立一个额外的虚拟桥梁。本提案要求的额外差旅和生活资源将使STREAM和ReNUWIt能够作为跨大西洋的水部门智囊团走到一起，共同培养未来的工程人才，并在不重复现有工作的情况下，为彼此的计划活动增加价值。

The UK and the US research councils have made major investments in the training of their future water engineering cadres through (respectively) a £6.4 million Industrial Doctorate Centre for the UK Water Sector (STREAM) and a $18.5 million Engineering Research Centre (ERC) for Re-inventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt). This network proposal seeks additional travel and subsistence resources to exploit the potential synergy between these two major research and training activities by enabling PhD students, early career researchers and academic staff from each centre of excellence to interact and exchange ideas, knowledge, skills and research results. The transatlantic network will engage publically and industrially supported water research activities at the universities of Newcastle, Cranfield, Sheffield, Exeter, Imperial College London, Stanford, New Mexico State, California at Berkeley, and the Colorado School of Mines.The network will enable delegations of ReNUWIt PhD students and postdocs lead by a ReNUWIt academic to participate in the Challenge Weeks 2013/2014/2015 organized each year at another STREAM university. Challenge Weeks bring together the diverse cohort of research engineers, academics and industrial partners working under the STREAM umbrella and includes team building exercises, advanced transferable skills training, guest lectures from leading industrialists and scientists, and design and problem solving challenges. Participation of ReNUWIt delegates will enrich these events and provide opportunity for formal and informal engagement between UK and US peers. The network will also enable participation of STREAM research engineers in the workshops and strategic dialogues organized by RENUWIt and/or brief research visits in ReNUWIt laboratories to learn about the ongoing work and state-of-the-art methods used in US laboratories. The goals of the RENUWIt workshops and dialogues are to identify the most critical questions in strategically important water infrastructure areas to be addressed by university research. In addition to supporting the transatlantic mobility of young researchers, the network will also enable participation of STREAM and ReNUWIt academics in each others workshops and training activities, which include taught postgraduate modules, student-led research classes/seminars, and video conference accessible series of leadership seminars occurring throughout the academic year and addressing topics such as environmental leadership, scientific ethics, communication, problem solving, and ethical conduct of research. Last but not least, the network will integrate the STREAM and ReNUWIt websites by providing information dedicated to the organization, internal reporting and public dissemination of network activities funded under this proposal. This information will contain, in addition to a description of both research initiatives with links to their main websites, all the necessary details about the travel bursaries, the application process and deadlines, a timetable of relevant STREAM and ReNUWIt events. The website will also include news items written about the exchange activities by the beneficiaries of the travel bursaries. Contributions of STREAM academics to the webinar series of the ReNUWIt center, and viewing of ReNUWIt webinars by STREAM affiliated members, will build an additional virtual bridge between the two water research centres of excellence.The additional travel and subsistence resources requested with this proposal will enable STREAM and ReNUWIt to come together as a transatlantic think tank for the water sector, to jointly nurture future engineering talent, and to add value to each other's planned activities without duplicating existing efforts.