About this Research Topic
International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality.
Gender inequality represents one of the major problems that affect the academic world and scientific progress. At present, less than 30% of researchers worldwide are women. Long-standing biases and gender stereotypes discourage women away from science-related fields, especially engineering. Engineering as a whole is a historically, and currently, male dominated research field and ensuring that female voices and research receive equal - and indeed greater - visibility, attention, and respect is of vital importance.
Scientific progress is only possible and greatly accelerated if we have gender equality. More women involved in a scientific field results in an expansion of the general knowledge in that field. Today, while a gender equal society might be seen as both beneficial and desirable, it is becoming extremely important to show, especially to younger generations, the growing impact of female researchers in science.
This Research Topic aims to highlight and showcase the high-quality research of women across the entire breadth of the thermal engineering field, and present advances in theory, experiment, and methodology, with applications to compelling problems.
A mix of full Original Research, Brief Research Reports, Reviews/Mini-reviews, Perspectives, Methods, and Hypothesis and Theory papers are welcome. We also welcome manuscripts celebrating the contribution of outstanding female researchers in the field, and gender studies on the role of women in the field, in order to make sense of the inequalities and the opportunities afforded.
Please note that to be considered for this collection, manuscripts should have a lead and/or corresponding author who identifies as female. Early career researchers are more than welcome to team up with senior female colleagues. Co-authors can be of any gender identity.
Topics within the scope of this collection include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Phenomena and processes involving heat conduction, convection, and radiative transfer
• Fundamental and applied research in different fields of refrigeration, thermal management, air-conditioning, psychrometry, and battery cooling
• Research and development related to internal and external combustion engines, including the use of conventional and non-conventional carbon-based and carbon-free fuels
• Research works on fuel cell systems generating energy/power via electrochemical conversion of fuels
• Heat transfer involving micro and nanoscale materials and systems
• Heat and mass transfer modes involving thermal energy conversion and storage technologies
• Process design and system integration for components, devices, equipment, and systems related to thermal engineering
• New energy materials, renewable energy systems, and the sustainability of thermal energy systems
• Waste to energy technology and energy measurement technologies
We hope that this Research Topic will be the foundation of an international network of female researchers, a starting point for future collaborations and discussions.
Gender inequality represents one of the major problems that affect the academic world and scientific progress. At present, less than 30% of researchers worldwide are women. Long-standing biases and gender stereotypes discourage women away from science-related fields, especially engineering. Engineering as a whole is a historically, and currently, male dominated research field and ensuring that female voices and research receive equal - and indeed greater - visibility, attention, and respect is of vital importance.
Scientific progress is only possible and greatly accelerated if we have gender equality. More women involved in a scientific field results in an expansion of the general knowledge in that field. Today, while a gender equal society might be seen as both beneficial and desirable, it is becoming extremely important to show, especially to younger generations, the growing impact of female researchers in science.
This Research Topic aims to highlight and showcase the high-quality research of women across the entire breadth of the thermal engineering field, and present advances in theory, experiment, and methodology, with applications to compelling problems.
A mix of full Original Research, Brief Research Reports, Reviews/Mini-reviews, Perspectives, Methods, and Hypothesis and Theory papers are welcome. We also welcome manuscripts celebrating the contribution of outstanding female researchers in the field, and gender studies on the role of women in the field, in order to make sense of the inequalities and the opportunities afforded.
Please note that to be considered for this collection, manuscripts should have a lead and/or corresponding author who identifies as female. Early career researchers are more than welcome to team up with senior female colleagues. Co-authors can be of any gender identity.
Topics within the scope of this collection include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Phenomena and processes involving heat conduction, convection, and radiative transfer
• Fundamental and applied research in different fields of refrigeration, thermal management, air-conditioning, psychrometry, and battery cooling
• Research and development related to internal and external combustion engines, including the use of conventional and non-conventional carbon-based and carbon-free fuels
• Research works on fuel cell systems generating energy/power via electrochemical conversion of fuels
• Heat transfer involving micro and nanoscale materials and systems
• Heat and mass transfer modes involving thermal energy conversion and storage technologies
• Process design and system integration for components, devices, equipment, and systems related to thermal engineering
• New energy materials, renewable energy systems, and the sustainability of thermal energy systems
• Waste to energy technology and energy measurement technologies
We hope that this Research Topic will be the foundation of an international network of female researchers, a starting point for future collaborations and discussions.
Keywords: Thermal Engineering, Heat Engines, Combustion, Thermal Science, Refrigeration, Thermal Energy Systems, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Air-conditioning, Battery Cooling, #CollectionSeries
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