2. Visualization of Relationship among Panelists' Messages and Discussion from the Floor
The Role of Thermal Science in Meeting Societal Challenges“What are the roles of scientists and engineers of thermal science in resolving various societal
issues and enabling further societal development? ““How research themes and schemes should be designed in order to meet societal challenges
while keeping spontaneous motivation of researchers in issue-driven research?”
Science & engineering community
Universities
National labs
Industry
Business

Scientists
Engineers

Bottom-up
Seeds-push R&D

For transdisciplinary works...
“Good balance is needed.”“There are positive and negativeaspects”“We can head toward broader solutions,more efficient system solutions”“Transdisciplinary projects sometimes
do not show the usual scientific depth.”

Policy Making &Science advice

Ministries,
Funding Agencies

Top-down
Issue-driven R&D

Can heat transfer play an important and leading role?

Thermal Science and Engineering
Scientists

SocietyEngineer

Make changes in the policy

University & Industry• Professors

Economic growthSocial welfare
Innovation• Young scientists• Expert engineers

Science advice
Justify research funding

Global knowledge capital

Community & Society in different states

Transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations

Material science

Mathematics

Sociology

Sociology

Applied energy

Other fields

Connects to solving societal challenges
Performance indicators are important
Can start from bottom-up

Well-organized society
Developed countries
Developing countries
OthersPerformance indicator
Publication
Publishers, Impact factor, Citation index

High impact and excellence

Bean-counting

Prof. Klausner“Do we need to change the present culture in reward system to enable new technology development?”“How do we change the culture?”“Can researchers, particularly young scientists, take risk in universities with the bean-counting mode?”Prof. Zhang“How can we create the atmosphere for people to do transdisciplinary collaboration from the top-down?”“What is the stand of heat transfer in the broad scientific committee?”Dr. SatoProf. Herwig“Renovation of teaching is anurgent matter.”“New digital technologies should
be exploit.”“Global knowledge capitalshould be created for teaching
the public and people in otherfields.”

Transdisciplinary work examples:
Transformative energy technologies
Green growth
Energy, Environment, Safety & Security

Evaluation“Heat Transfer community must define andclaim its role.”“Holistic approach accounting for Socioeconomical, geographical and political realities
is required.”“Money is not a big problem and what we are
missing is effectively important ideas.”“Strategic program is needed
to convert research output totangible assets and finallysuccessful business.”

Academic society
Thermal engineering society
Universities and schools

Education• Students

Global society
National society
Government
PublicIndustry“Research results should be translated intopolicy.”“Leadership has to come from the thermalsciences to make a big impact.”“Communication and collaboration between science and technology, scientists and engineers, are important.”“How can we do it?”
“Do we have indicators for that, that it is relevant? And if not, can and should we develop these indicators?”

Prof. Yanagihara“All of the discussions are focused on very well-organized society, we have billions of people outside this.”“How should we consider in the big picture this kind of a situation in which you don’t necessarily have policymakers or money?

Prof. Kato

“We can understand the importance qualitatively of technologies; however, we don’t know these quantitatively impact on thefuture. How can we do that?”

Prof. Ohadi“We need to teach the students what they need to know, not what we may have in our notebooks from 30 years ago.”“It makes a big difference if we teach courses in entrepreneurship and technological innovation. We must make it a must thatcreativity is very important particularly for advanced countries where they cannot promote commodity technologies.”

Prof. Alvarado“One of the best products that we put out is basically our students, and they have a very in-depth education.”“What we need to do is to create teams.”