CAREER: A Concurrent Design Paradigm for Small Companies

职业：小型公司的并行设计范式

• 批准号: 9624195
• 负责人: Susan Carlson-Skalak
• 金额: $ 31万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-15 至 2001-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9624195&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Concurrent; Design; Paradigm; Small

9624195 Carlson This Career Award provides support for the development of a concurrent engineering methodology for small companies and educational activities to develop skills in team work, design, and product development. Concurrent engineering has had a significant impact on the quality and development cycle of products in large corporations. Even though small companies constitute ninety percent of all manufacturing firms in the United States, little work has been done to develop a concurrent engineering methodology that targets their needs. An action research paradigm is used to gather information through interviews and participation in small company design teams. Based upon this information, a methodology is proposed and taught to industrial participants and students. After implementation of the methodology in companies and the classroom, revisions are made, starting the whole cycle again. This action research paradigm allows practicing engineers and students to become partners in the development of a design methodology that uses teams of people to focus on the life cycle aspects of a product early in the design cycle. Educational activities include the development of a Technology, Management, and Policy minor that will be open to students across the university. This minor will educate students on the development of technologies and products and the implication of these developments on the nation and the world, and will give the students an opportunity to work in multi-disciplinary teams on complex problems dealing with management and development of technologies. These students will be better prepared to make tough decisions on how to govern and use technology as the nation faces the issues of global competition, sustainability, and diminishing resources. This grant is likely to provide improvements in design within small companies and the education of students about design and interdisciplinary team work. Similar benefits are expected from a concurrent methodology de veloped specifically for small companies that can be adopted without the expense of outside consultants.

9624195 卡尔森 该职业奖为小型公司开发并行工程方法和教育活动提供支持，以培养团队合作，设计和产品开发方面的技能。 并行工程对大型企业的产品质量和开发周期产生了重大影响。 尽管小公司占美国所有制造企业的90%，但很少有人开发针对其需求的并行工程方法。 一个行动研究范式是用来收集信息，通过采访和参与小公司的设计团队。 根据这些信息，提出了一种方法，并教授给工业参与者和学生。 在公司和课堂上实施该方法后，进行修订，重新开始整个周期。 这种行动研究范式允许实践工程师和学生成为设计方法开发的合作伙伴，该方法使用团队的人在设计周期的早期专注于产品的生命周期方面。教育活动包括技术，管理和政策未成年人的发展，将开放给整个大学的学生。 该未成年人将教育学生技术和产品的发展以及这些发展对国家和世界的影响，并将使学生有机会在多学科团队中工作，处理管理和技术发展的复杂问题。 这些学生将更好地准备如何管理和使用技术，因为国家面临的全球竞争，可持续性和资源减少的问题作出坚韧的决定。 该补助金可能会在小公司内提供设计方面的改进，以及对学生进行设计和跨学科团队合作的教育。 类似的好处预计从并行的方法，专门为小公司，可以采用没有外部顾问的费用。