Like most technical disciplines, environmental science and engineering is becoming increasingly specialized. As industry professionals focus on specific environmental subjects they become less familiar with environmental problems and solutions outside their area of expertise. This situation is compounded by the fact that many environmental science

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the International Workshop on Materials and Mechanical Engineering (WMME 2013), November 20-22, 2013, Xianning, China. The 57 papers are grouped as follows: I. Research and Processing of Materials, II. Mechanical Science and Engineering