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

刘易斯陈施密特 该奖项为为期三年的基于决策的设计公开研讨会提供资金。 讲习班将通过一系列面对面的会议进行，每年举行三次，并在整个三年期间通过电子和互联网技术在所有有关各方之间不断进行互动。 具体而言，讲习班将包括开发一个网页。 讲习班的一个主要组成部分将是持续、开放地发展和传播讲习班讨论和活动的哲学、理论和实践成果。 该研讨会将集中在针对工程设计理论的发展的研究工作的多样性的基础上，新兴的概念，工程设计是一个决策过程，是服从于无数的工具和理论，已在决策理论领域的发展在过去的200年。 如果成功的话，这个研讨会将为工程设计的研究和教育提供一个新的方向。 新的理论概念应该引导工程设计方法，使设计更好的产品成为可能：产品对各自的市场更具吸引力，成本更低，对环境的影响更小，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，并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. ***