Decision Based Environmentally Conscious Design

本项目的目标是开发一种新的规范性设计决策方法，特别是针对克服与环境意识设计相关的认知偏见。具体而言，将制定决策分析程序，以指导具有成本效益的产品开发过程。伊利诺伊大学正在开发一种新技术，用于从气流中捕获和回收有害空气污染物，该技术将被用作试验台。它从空气中捕获稀释的有害空气污染物，并将其转化为纯净的液体，用于产生污染物的制造过程中。采用活性炭纤维布。这项研究的主要好处将是缩短开发时间，从而使产品在市场上更加成功。以决策为基础的设计方法将被纳入工业赞助的高级设计课程。研究和教育基础设施将通过建立这种跨学科的合作，并通过开发新的跨学科课程材料为本科和研究生课程在两个不同的部门（一般工程，土木与环境工程）得到改善。此外，两名博士学生将在这个新的研究领域接受培训。这项跨学科研究的成果将在土木和机械工程研究界广泛传播。社会效益还包括一项新技术，该技术不仅可以去除有害的空气污染物，而且还可以经济有效地回收这些污染物以供再利用。

The objective of this project is to develop a new normative design decision making methodology especially tailored to overcome cognitive biases associated with environmentally conscious design. Specifically, decision analytic procedures will be developed to direct a cost-effective product development process. A new technology being developed at the University of Illinois to capture and recover hazardous air pollutants from gas streams will be used as the test-bed. It captures dilute hazardous air pollutants from air and converts them to a pure liquid for reuse in the manufacturing process that generated the pollutant. Activated carbon fiber cloth is employed. The primary benefit of this research will be a shortened development time resulting in a product that will be more successful in the marketplace. The decision-based design methodology will be integrated into an industrially sponsored senior design course. The research and educational infrastructure will be improved by establishing this interdisciplinary collaboration, and also by development of new interdisciplinary course materials for both undergraduate and graduate courses in two different departments (General Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering). In addition, two Ph.D. students will be trained in this new research area. The results of this interdisciplinary research will be broadly disseminated across both civil and mechanical engineering research communities. Societal benefits also include a new technology that not only removes hazardous air pollutants, but also cost-effectively recovers them for reuse.