An Open Workshop on Decision-Based Design: Status & Promise

*** 9703613 Lewis Chen Schmidt该奖项为开展为期三年的基于决策的设计开放研讨会提供资金。该讲习班将通过每年举行三次的一系列面对面会议进行，并在整个三年期间通过电子和互联网技术使所有有关各方继续进行互动。具体来说，研讨会将包括一个网页的开发。讲习班的一个主要组成部分将是持续、公开地发展和传播讲习班讨论和活动的哲学、理论和实践成果。本次研讨会将集中讨论针对工程设计理论发展的各种研究成果，该理论基于一个新兴概念，即工程设计是一个决策过程，该过程适用于过去200年来在决策理论领域发展起来的无数工具和理论。如果这次研讨会成功，将为工程设计的研究和教育提供一个新的方向。新的理论概念应该导致工程设计的方法，这将使设计更好的产品：产品对各自的市场更有吸引力，成本更低，对环境的影响更小，特别是对消费者和整个社会更友好。这些概念可能会导致工程教育的全新方法，将工程设计作为决策过程的新重点。＊＊＊

*** 9703613 Lewis Chen Schmidt This award provides funding for the conduct of a three-year open workshop on decision- based design. The workshop will be conducted via a series of face-to-face meetings, conducted three times per year, and with continuing interaction between all interested parties via electronic and Internet technologies throughout the three-year period. Specifically, the workshop will include the development of a Web Page. A primary component of the workshop will be the continual, open development and dissemination of the philosophical, theoretical, and practical results of the workshop discussions and activities. The workshop will concentrate on a diversity of research efforts directed at the development of a theory of engineering design based on the emerging notion that engineering design is a process of decision making that is amenable to the myriad of tools and theories that have been developed in the field of decision theory over the past 200 years. If successful, this workshop will provide a new direction for research and education in engineering design. New theoretical concepts should lead to approaches to engineering design that will enable the design of better products: products that appeal more to their respective markets, cost less, have lower environmental impact, and which are more friendly for consumers in particular and society at large. These concepts are likely to lead to entirely new approaches to engineering education, with a new focus on engineering design as a process of decision making. ***