Student Travel Support for 2008 ASME Student Mechanism Design Compeitition; New York City, New York; August 3-6, 2008

这项提案的目标是为参加2008年ASME学生机械设计大赛决赛的学生(本科生和研究生)获得旅费资助。第33届机械与机器人大会是2008年ASME国际设计工程技术会议(IDETC)和计算机与工程信息会议(CIE)在纽约举行的一部分。ASME IDETC/CIE是设计工程和工程中的计算机与信息领域的首要国际会议。此次活动旨在展示尖端研究和成就，并丰富这些领域的教育经验。机构和机器人会议的目的是促进对机构设计和机器人知识基础的理解，所有研究人员和教育工作者将在未来几年共同利用这些知识来迎接挑战，实现全球竞争经济的机遇。一种机制？定义为，以确定性的方式传递力或运动以执行机械任务的任何装置。机构是更复杂的机器系统的骨架。机构设计一直是并将继续是工业中广泛使用和需要的基本技术之一。ASME学生机械设计大赛的目的是：(1)激励学生？(Ii)促进机构理论、设计和应用方面的研究和教育的进步。最终入围者被邀请在IDETC 2008上展示他们的作品。最终入围者的评判依据是创造力、实用性、分析和设计方法的完整性、制造原型的质量、最终报告的质量和会议演示文稿。大赛与美国国家科学基金会土木、机械和制造创新部门(CMMI)高度相关，更具体地说是工程设计(ED)项目，哪个项目赞助？工程设计基础研究？以促进我们对产品实现过程的基本原理的理解。机构共同体的研究涵盖了产品实现过程的广泛阶段，从概念设计(拓扑和尺寸综合)到优化设计和原型制造。此外，ED计划也是机构科学研究的主要资金来源之一。

The goal of this proposal is to obtain travel funding for students (undergraduate and graduate) participating as finalists in the 2008 ASME Student Mechanism Design Competition. The competition is featured at the 33th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, which is part of the 2008 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE) in New York City, New York. ASME IDETC/CIE is the premier international meeting in the fields of Design Engineering and Computers and Information in Engineering. This event is designed to showcase cutting edge research and accomplishments, and to enrich the educational experience in these fields. The purpose of the Mechanisms and Robotics conference is to advance the understanding of the base of knowledge in mechanism design and robotics that all researchers and educators will collectively draw upon in the years ahead to meet the challenges and realize the opportunities of a globally competitive economy. A ?mechanism? is defined as, ?any device that transmits a force or a motion in a deterministic way in order to perform a mechanical task.? Mechanisms are the skeleton of more complex machine systems. Mechanism design has been and will continue be one of the fundamental techniques that are widely used and needed in industry. The objective of the ASME Student Mechanism Design Competition is (i) to stimulate students? interests in mechanism design and research and (ii) to promote advances in research and education in the theory, design and application of mechanisms. Finalists are invited to present their work at IDETC 2008. Finalists are judged on the basis of creativity, practicality, integrity of analysis and design methodology, quality of the fabricated prototype, quality of the final report and the conference presentation. The competition is highly related to the NSF Division of Civil, Mechanical andManufacturing Innovation (CMMI), more specifically the Engineering Design (ED) program which sponsors ?basic research in engineering design? to ?advance our understanding of the fundamentals of the product realization process.? The research of the mechanism community covers a wide range of stages of product realization process, from conceptual design (topological and dimensional synthesis) to optimal design and prototype fabrication. Furthermore, the ED program is one of the major funding sources for mechanism science research.