CAREER: Incorporation of Engineering Analysis Within Design Synthesis

该职业奖支持应用工程分析和产品开发的研究和课程活动。更具体地说，这笔资助将使设计环境能够揭示驱动设计行为的一阶效应，帮助工程师更好地内化关键设计决策与产品性能之间的因果关系。该项目的关键活动是开发分析和设计对象，这些对象允许自动应用分析方法、适当的边界条件和对设计组件特征的数值解决方案。为了开发和演示方法，成本和冷却分析将被开发并应用于注塑件的设计中。开发的方法可以扩展到机械装配，不同的制造过程，以及其他的分析类型，以整合到工程教育和实践中。通过与商业设计环境的整合，研究成果将转化为学术课程和行业应用。如果目标实现，工程师将获得综合设计的能力，并获得有关产品目的和性能的实时反馈。在学术界，学生可以通过在设计综合的背景下探索分析，获得更多的理论理解、工程直觉和信心。在工业中，集成环境应该帮助工程师以更少的时间、精力和成本开发更坚固的模塑部件。

This CAREER award supports research and curriculum activities for applied engineering analysis and product development. More specifically, the grant will enable a design environment which reveals the first-order effects that drive the design behavior, aiding the engineer to better internalize the causality between critical design decisions and a product's performance. The critical activity of the project is the development of analysis and design objects that permit automatic application of analytical methods, appropriate boundary conditions, and numerical solution to the features of a designed component. To develop and demonstrate the methodology, cost and cooling analyses are to be developed and applied in the design of injection molded parts. The developed methods can later be extended to mechanical assemblies, different manufacturing processes, and additional analysis types for integration into engineering education and practice. The research results will be translated to academic curricula and industry application through integration with commercial design environments. If the goals are achieved, engineers would gain the ability to synthesize designs with real-time feedback regarding the product's purpose and performance. In academia, students could gain more thoretical understanding, engineering intuition, and confidence by exploring analysis in the context of design synthesis. In industry, the integrated environment should aid engineers develop more robust molded parts with reduced time, effort, and cost.