Frontiers of Molecular Design and Engineering - Junior Researcher Travel Scholarships

分子设计与工程前沿 - 初级研究员旅行奖学金

• 批准号: 1840839
• 负责人: Juan De Pablo
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840839&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Frontiers; Molecular; Design; Engineering; Junior

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.

分子工程正在迅速成为一门新的工程学科，旨在通过提供依赖于自下而上的方法的解决方案来解决人类面临的一些重大挑战，其中分子概念构成了拟议策略的基础。这笔赠款将为 25 名美国初级研究人员提供部分旅行支持，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。研讨会将讨论分子工程广泛的跨学科领域内的多个主题。它将为初级研究人员提供一个绝佳的机会，让他们通过科学演讲以及与美国和国外领先学者和专家的讨论来了解当前的技术水平和新兴的研究机会。 该研讨会旨在吸引约 150 名参与者。分子工程具有提供具有无与伦比的功效和效率的新型系统、材料和设备的潜力。这种方法正在改变几乎所有传统工程领域，并且本质上依赖于物理、化学、生物学和计算科学发展的交叉融合。研究生课程旨在教育新一代研究人员具备适当的技能、知识和多学科框架，以应对当前和未来的社会挑战。拟议的研讨会将提供一个论坛来传播迄今为止的成就，并向广大工程和科学界通报研究和教育方面的新机会。本次研讨会的一个显着特点是，专门针对对分子工程感兴趣的本科生和研究生，让他们了解分子工程的最新进展。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。研讨会的形式旨在激发讨论和思想交流。这项工作的主要成果之一将是更好地了解分子领域以及一系列新出现的需求和可能的解决策略。这些信息将被汇编成一份提交给国家科学基金会的报告，并发表在《分子系统设计与工程》杂志上，以促进在研究界的传播。研讨会的另一个重要成果将是让来自全国各地、具有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，并通过评估被认为值得支持利用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准。