Institute for Design Engineering and Applications: Fostering Creative Synthesis Across the Curriculum

提案编号：0230547校长：高露洁，J.爱德华机构名称：西北大学名称：设计工程和应用研究所：培养跨课程的创造性综合摘要西北大学麦考密克工程与应用科学学院计划建立一个以工程设计为中心的课程。他们将在整个本科课程中让学生参与一系列有意义且日益复杂的设计体验。设计课程吸引了来自各种工程学科以及美术和社会科学的教师和学生。为了促进这种跨学科的努力，并为大规模的协同设计项目提供必要的基础设施，他们计划创建一个新的实体，设计工程和应用研究所（IDEA）。IDEA将提供各种工程设计项目和课程。这些将包括制造工程学位课程;新的，更先进的领域的大规模，跨学科课程;和较小的，更有针对性的产品，如基于国家设计竞赛的课程。它还将积极开展以产品和工艺创新为重点的研究议程。所有的研究项目都将与设计课程挂钩。

PROPOSAL NO.: 0230547PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Colgate, J. EdwardINSTITUTION NAME: Northwestern UniversityTITLE: Institute for Design Engineering and Applications: Fostering Creative Synthesis Across the CurriculumAbstractThe McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science of Northwestern University plan to build a curriculum centered on engineering design. They will engage students in a series of meaningful and increasingly sophiscated design experiences throughout their undergraduate programs.The design curriculum draws faculty and students together from a variety of engineering disciplines, as well as the fine arts and social sciences. To facilitate this sort of cross-disciplinary effort, and to provide the necessary infrastructure for a large-scale collaborative design program, they plan to create a new entity, the Institute for Design Engineering and Applications (IDEA).IDEA will offer a variety of programs and courses in engineering design. These will include a Manufacturing Engineering degree program; large-scale, cross-disciplinary courses in new, more advanced area; and smaller, more focused offerings, such as courses based on national design competitions. It will also actively pursue a research agenda focused on product and process innovation. All research projects will be tied to the designcurriculum.