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

扩大材料科学与工程界的可持续发展意识、影响和培训

• 批准号: 1916860
• 负责人: Ashley White
• 金额: $ 9.8万
• 依托单位: Materials Research Society
• 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: 2019-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1916860&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scaling; Up; Sustainability; Awareness; Impact

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.

材料科学将在解决未来几年我们社会将继续面临的许多关键挑战中发挥关键作用，包括提供可持续的能源，水，产品，服务，运输，建筑物和公共基础设施。可持续发展的新方法将需要具有技术专长的材料研究人员，并了解材料科学与其他学科之间的复杂相互关系。作为材料研究人员的主要专业学会，材料研究学会（MRS）的位置良好，可以帮助材料科学家应对这些挑战。多年来，太太在该领域建立了一个强大的实践社区。为了认识可持续性在材料科学中的关键和交叉审查作用，MRS在2016年建立了对可持续性小组委员会的关注。该建议旨在在MRS内部的可持续性活动和编程的范围和扩大范围，并在整个材料科学社区中的可持续性及其更高的努力。对跨太太的可持续性的认识和理解； （2）提高MRS中可持续性努力的影响； （3）培训下一代材料科学家将可持续性纳入其工作。 通过通过多种路线与与会者的参与，包括游戏化，讲义，视频和社交媒体，以及在2019年春季春季夫人会议上进行特殊的网络活动和计划，将提高对可持续性的认识和理解。通过建立成功的一系列知名度，讨论跨学科可持续性主题的小组讨论，以及开始新的努力，以吸引有目标的热门话题与可持续性相交的有针对性的热门话题，从而提高了可持续发展夫人努力的影响。一组新的研讨会将培训材料科学家，以更全面地将可持续性纳入其研究。最后，关于材料科学课程可持续性现状的背景研究将为长期的改革工作提供依据。这些努力共同有潜力提高可持续性在材料科学研究中的作用，并为材料科学的新方法提供信息，从而更彻底地考虑了可持续性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估来评估的。