SGER: Toward a Better Understanding of Engineering Design Models

该研究项目旨在通过开发一个概念框架来为工程设计的科学基础做出贡献，该框架可用于研究，关联和比较现有的工程设计模型，这些模型可以从广泛不同的角度获得。 由此产生的框架将包括一个设计概念交换语言与严格的数学评估。 这种交换语言将被用来解释原理，并将不同模型中使用的概念联系起来。 数学评估将用于阐明各种设计模型的基本假设，并评估其有效性和局限性。 本研究将从工程、决策理论、人工智能等领域选取六到十个工程设计模型。 该框架将在对这些选定设计模型进行严格审查的基础上制定。 一个跨学科的研究团队，包括工程师，数学家和决策理论家，组装开发这个框架的工程设计模型。 设计是工程专业的本质，工程设计一直是各学科研究者共同探讨的课题。 他们中的一些人来自不同的工程学科，其他人来自决策理论或人工智能领域。 虽然一些工程设计模型已经提出了日期，在这些模型中存在的交叉引用和研究人员之间的沟通一直很困难。 研究人员之间缺乏交流已成为工程设计研究进展的主要障碍。 如果成功，该研究项目的结果将为工程设计研究人员提供一个共同的语言和框架，以分享他们的见解和结果，从而确定模型之间的差距和未来研究的方向。

This research project seeks to contribute to the scientific foundation of engineering design by developing a conceptual framework that can be used to study, correlate and compare existing engineering design models, which may obtain from widely different perspectives. The resulting framework will consist of a design concept interchange language with rigorous mathematical evaluations. This interchange language will be used to explain the rationales and correlate the concepts used in different models. The mathematical evaluations will be used to explicate underlying assumptions of various design models and to evaluate their validity and limitations. Six to ten engineering design models will be selected from engineering, decision theory, and artificial intelligence fields for this research. The framework will be developed based on the critical review of these selected design models. An interdisciplinary research team, including engineers, mathematicians, and decision theorists, is assembled to develop this framework for engineering design models. Design is the essence of engineering profession; and engineering design has been a topic for researchers from different disciplines. Some of them are from various engineering disciplines, others from decision theory or artificial intelligence fields. Although a number of engineering design models have been proposed to date, little cross reference exists in these models and communication among the researcher has been difficult. It is commonly recognized that the lack of communication among researchers has become a major obstacle for the progress of engineering design research. If successful, the results of this research project will provide a common language and framework for engineering design researchers to share their insights and results in order to identify gaps between the models and directions for the future research.