SGER: Facilitating Effective Communication in Interdisciplinary Design Teams

这个探索性研究的小补助金提议通过对团队成员之间的通信本体和语言学的基本理解来研究增强跨学科设计团队中的通信的潜力。 这是一个高风险，高潜力的研究活动，汇集了语言学，材料科学与工程，英语和工业工程专业知识的教师，与两个行业合作伙伴-雷神综合防御系统和固特异。 风险涉及到研究整合语言话语分析与“言语行为”编码的工程设计过程。虽然这种语言学研究已被有效地用于其他领域，这是一个新的尝试，以捕捉互动（面对面，书面和口头）从设计团队的过程中挖掘。高潜力是“本体论”工具提出的概念设计，其中通信模式建模和优化方法，以确定最佳方案的早期调查的意义可能会导致所有工程设计的理论为基础的软件。更广泛的影响还包括与行业的互动;固特异将通过提供与设计团队的联系、直接参与访谈和调查以及对初步模型的验证反馈来支持这一努力。雷神也会这么做

This Small Grant for Exploratory Research proposes to investigate the potential for enhancing communication in interdisciplinary design teams through the fundamental understanding of communication ontologies and linguistics between team members. This is a high risk, high potential research activity that brings together faculty with expertise in linguistics, materials science and engineering, english, and industrial engineering, with two industry partners - Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems and Goodyear. The risk involves the research into integrating linguistic discourse analysis with "speech acts" codification for the engineering design process. While such linguistic research has been used effectively in other domains, this is a new attempt to capture the interactions (face-to-face, written and verbal) to be mined from the design team process. The high potential is the significance of the "ontology" tool proposed for conceptual design, where communication patterns modeling and early investigations into optimization methods to determine best scenarios could lead to a theory-based software for all engineering design. The broader impacts also include the interactions with the industries; where Goodyear will support the effort by proving access to design groups, direct participation in interviews and surveys, and validation feedback for the preliminary models. Raytheon will do the same.