U.S.-Turkey Workshop on 'Descriptive Models of Engineering Design' - Istanbul, Turkey, 1996

项目说明：该项目支持六名美国科学家参加1996年秋季在土耳其伊斯坦布尔伊斯坦布尔技术大学建筑系举行的关于“工程设计描述模型”的美土两国研讨会。该项目汇集了来自美国和土耳其的一些专家，以及来自其他几个国家的一些专家。目的是鼓励对描述工程设计有兴趣的研究人员之间的跨学科互动和合作，以实现各种目的，包括：理解、预测、解释、正式建模、仿真、决策支持、设计辅助和自动化。工程和建筑设计领域的正式方法和工具开发取得了有限的成功。例如，计算机辅助建筑设计（CABD）在设计交付过程或建筑或类似结构的实际性能方面几乎没有影响。最近，人们越来越关注于理解人类是如何设计的，以及他们在设计时如何使用工具——尤其是电子工具。该领域的工作由美国国家科学基金会支持的卡内基梅隆大学工程设计研究中心开展，旨在开发设计工具并了解其用途，以提高工业性能。范围：这个项目支持一个新的想法，一个车间处理设计作为多学科的努力，适用于许多工程领域，如结构，机器，和其他工程系统。研讨会将成为国际参与者之间跨学科交流研究成果和想法的媒介，这些参与者将分布在几个关键学科，如机械工程、电气工程、建筑工程和建筑学。会议将出版出版物，包括预文集和国际设计研究杂志的精选出版物，稍后将出版一本编辑过的书。会议还将制定参与的个人和机构之间的合作计划。合作将围绕以下关键概念展开：实践、工具、跨学科转移、生产力和创造力。这个项目允许一个由杰出科学家组成的美国团队在国际环境中与外国同事一起工作，以促进这一重要领域的设计改进。该项目符合国际项目部（INT）的目标。土木和机械系统司和INT联合资助该项目。

Description: This project supports participation of six American scientists in a U.S.-Turkish binational workshop on `Description Models of Engineering Design` to be held at the Faculty of Architecture of Istanbul Technical University, in Istanbul, Turkey in the Fall of 1996. This project brings together a number of experts from the U.S. and from Turkey, as well as a number of experts from few other countries. The purpose is to encourage inter-disciplinary interaction and collaboration between researchers interested in describing engineering design for a variety of purposes, including : understanding, prediction, explanation, formal modeling, simulation, decision support, design assistance, and automation. Formal methods and tool development in the area of engineering and building design have had limited success. For example, computer assisted building design (CABD) has made little impact in the design delivery process or the actual performance of building or similar structures. Recently there has been an increase in the attention paid to understanding how humans design and how they use tools-especially electronic ones- while they design. Efforts in this area are carried out by the NSF supported Engineering Design Research Center, at Carnegie Mellon University, to develop design tools and understand their use, to improve performance in industry. Scope: This project supports a new idea for a workshop dealing with design as multidisciplinary endeavor applicable to many engineering fields such as in structures, machines, and other engineering systems. The workshop will serve as a medium for interdisciplinary exchange of findings and ideas between international participants who will be distributed between several key disciplines such as mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, building engineering, and architecture. The meeting will produce publications including pre-proceedings, and selected publications in the international journal of Design Studies, and later in an edited book. The meeting also is to forge a plan of cooperation among participating individuals and institutions. The cooperation will target key concepts: practice, tool, inter-disciplinary transfer, productivity and creativity. This project allows a U.S. team of eminent scientists to work in an international setting with foreign colleagues to stimulate this important area of improvement in design. The project meets the objectives of the Division of International Programs (INT). The Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems and INT are jointly funding this project.