Support for Workshop and Mentoring of Junior Researchers at the US National Combustion Meeting

支持美国国家燃烧会议上的初级研究人员的研讨会和指导

• 批准号: 1901570
• 负责人: Jacqueline O'Connor
• 金额: $ 2.78万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1901570&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Workshop; Mentoring; Junior; Researchers

This award is to support three outreach activities held during the US National Combustion Meeting, March 24-27, 2019. These activities include an Early Career Workshop for Combustion Researchers, a Mentoring Mixer, and a Women in Combustion Luncheon. The goal of these activities is to bring together a community of early-career combustion researchers and form action committees to encourage early-career participation in the combustion research community. In the U.S. nearly 70% of energy conversion is accomplished by combustion. Hence the advancement in combustion science is crucial to the society. The participants will further develop four high-priority items, including education and communities of practice, development of mentorship programs, cross-disciplinary collaboration and open-source sharing, and public outreach.Combustion is a key technology for power generation, and this will remain the same for decades to come. However, the combustion research community is facing various technical and non-technical challenges. The participants will identify challenges, educate the early-career researchers about these challenges, and discuss possible solutions. Discussion around technical issues will include brainstorming of novel, possibly cross-disciplinary research areas for future work. On the other hand, various non-technical issues will also be discussed, including mentoring of early-career faculty members and retention of talented researchers of diverse backgrounds. Results of the proposed outreach activities are expected to help build a more productive combustion research community.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.

该奖项旨在支持 2019 年 3 月 24 日至 27 日美国全国燃烧会议期间举行的三项外展活动。这些活动包括燃烧研究人员的早期职业研讨会、指导混合师和女性燃烧午餐会。这些活动的目标是将早期职业燃烧研究人员聚集在一起并组建行动委员会，以鼓励早期职业参与燃烧研究社区。在美国，近 70% 的能量转换是通过燃烧完成的。因此，燃烧科学的进步对社会至关重要。参与者将进一步开发四个高度优先的项目，包括教育和实践社区、导师计划的开发、跨学科合作和开源共享以及公共宣传。燃烧是发电的关键技术，这一点将继续存在未来几十年也是如此。然而，燃烧研究界正面临着各种技术和非技术挑战。参与者将识别挑战，向早期职业研究人员介绍这些挑战，并讨论可能的解决方案。围绕技术问题的讨论将包括对未来工作的新颖的、可能跨学科的研究领域进行集思广益。另一方面，还将讨论各种非技术问题，包括对早期职业教师的指导和保留不同背景的优秀研究人员。拟议的推广活动的结果预计将有助于建立一个更有生产力的燃烧研究社区。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。