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

本提案的目标是为参加2008年ASME学生机构设计竞赛决赛的学生（本科生和研究生）获得旅行资助。第33届机械与机器人会议是2008年美国机械工程师协会（ASME）国际设计工程技术会议（IDETC）和计算机与信息工程会议（CIE）的一部分，该会议在纽约举行。ASME IDETC/CIE是设计工程和计算机与信息工程领域的主要国际会议。该活动旨在展示最前沿的研究和成就，并丰富这些领域的教育经验。机械与机器人会议的目的是促进对机械设计和机器人技术基础知识的理解，所有研究人员和教育工作者将在未来几年共同吸取这些知识，以迎接挑战并实现全球竞争经济的机遇。一个机制?定义为？为了完成机械任务而以确定的方式传递力或运动的任何装置。机构是更复杂的机器系统的骨架。机构设计已经并将继续是工业中广泛使用和需要的基本技术之一。ASME学生机制设计竞赛的目的是(i)激发学生的兴趣。对机制设计和研究的兴趣，以及（ii）促进机制理论、设计和应用方面的研究和教育的进展。入围者将被邀请在IDETC 2008上展示他们的作品。决赛选手的评判标准包括创意、实用性、分析和设计方法的完整性、制作原型的质量、最终报告的质量和会议演讲的质量。该竞赛与NSF土木、机械和制造创新（CMMI）部门密切相关，更具体地说，是由NSF赞助的工程设计（ED）项目。工程设计的基础研究？?增进我们对产品实现过程基本原理的理解。机构界的研究涵盖了产品实现过程的各个阶段，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计划是机制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.