Community of Practice for Environmentally Benign Design and Manufacturing

该奖项将为美国境内的环保设计和制造研究和教育界创建一套传播工具，可供使用并与可持续产品开发的全球活动相关联。目标是促进共享环境，维护并积极联系这一不断发展的领域的工业界、学术界和国家实验室参与者。计划有五项任务来实现这一目标，包括为所有 EBDM 研究人员和教育工作者建立基于网络的讨论服务，主持由最近举办过国际会议和研讨会的组委会选定的主题的开放论坛，以及最佳实践库，重点关注工业实施或教育模块的解决方案。这些活动的更广泛影响包括将全球视角与区域活动，平衡材料使用研究与工业产品生命周期管理，并为新兴软件工具和管理原则创造一条途径，以便可以轻松地针对广泛的应用程序进行测试。该 PI 已成功展示了其团队通过之前的 NSF 资助促进、管理和传播新领域研究的能力。这项活动将帮助研究人员取得进展，为他们提供一个支持性的环境，在其中进行网络发布、讨论和协作。这样一个网络的创建和管理超出了典型研究资助的范围。

This award will create a set of dissemination tools for the Environmentally Benign Design and Manufacturing research and education community, within the US and accessible and linked to the global activities in Sustainable Product Development. The objective is to promote a sharing environment, maintained and actively linking industry, academia, and national lab participants in this growing area.Five tasks are planned to accomplished this, including setting up a web-based discussion service for all EBDM researchers and educators, moderating open forums on topics selected by an organizing committee of those who have recently held international conferences and workshops, and a library of best practices, focusing on solutions for industrial implementation or educational modules.The broader impacts of these activities include the potential for blending global perspectives in conjunction with regional activities, balancing materials use research with industrial product life cycle management, and creating an avenue for emerging software tools and management principles to be readily tested against a broad set of applications. The PI has successfully demonstrated the ability of his group to facilitate, manage, and disseminate research in new fields through previous NSF funding. This activity will assist researchers in carrying out their advancements, providing them with a supportive environment within which to web-publish, discuss, and collaborate. The creation and management of such a network is beyond the scope of typical research grants.