Conference: Keeping the Fire Alive: Fostering a Sustainable Community in the Combustion Sciences

会议：保持火势：培育燃烧科学的可持续发展社区

• 批准号: 2309905
• 负责人: Daniel Pineda
• 金额: $ 3.16万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at San Antonio
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-02-01 至 2024-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2309905&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Keeping; Fire; Alive; Fostering

This proposal is to support three outreach activities held during the U.S. National Combustion Meeting, March 19–22, 2023, at Texas A&M University. These activities include an Early Career Workshop for Combustion Researchers, a Mentorship Mixer, and a Women in Combustion Luncheon. The goal of these activities is to bring together a community of early-career combustion researchers and develop 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, advancement in combustion science is crucial to U.S. energy security and society. Workshop participants will develop four high-priority items, including public outreach, building productive and inclusive research group cultures, and education and communities of practice, and navigating research challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Workshop findings will be documented in a report that will be disseminated to the wider technical community.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 communication with the public and policymakers and attracting and retaining talented researchers from diverse backgrounds. Results of this workshop 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.

该提案旨在支持 2023 年 3 月 19 日至 22 日在德克萨斯农工大学举行的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、导师混合会和女性燃烧午餐会。这些活动的目标是聚集早期职业燃烧研究人员社区并建立行动委员会，以鼓励早期职业参与燃烧研究社区。近 70% 的能源转换是通过燃烧完成的，因此，燃烧科学的进步对于美国能源安全和社会至关重要。研讨会参与者将制定四个高度优先的项目，包括公共宣传、建设富有成效和包容性的研究小组文化以及教育。研讨会的结果将记录在一份报告中，该报告将分发给更广泛的技术界。燃烧是发电的一项关键技术，这一点将继续存在。相同然而，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，教育早期职业研究人员了解这些挑战，并讨论可能的解决方案，包括集思广益。另一方面，还将讨论各种非技术问题，包括与公众和政策制定者的沟通以及吸引和留住来自不同背景的优秀研究人员。帮助建立更高效的燃烧该奖项反映了 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。