CAREER: A Design Data Analysis Approach to Early Stage Design Process Modeling

职业：早期设计流程建模的设计数据分析方法

• 批准号: 0830134
• 负责人: Maria Yang
• 金额: $ 39.28万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-04 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0830134&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Design; Data; Analysis; Approach

This Early Faculty Career Development (CAREER) project integrates research in the early, formulation stage of engineering design with education of university students and outreach to K-12 youth. The early phase of design includes the generation, exploration, and selection of potential design concepts. Decisions made during this stage can have strong impact on the remainder of the design process and its outcomes. Ideally, changes in an individual design can be tracked over the early phase of design so that potential assessments about the final design can be made. However, early stage design process is by nature highly fluid and unstructured, making such measurements very challenging. The approach that this investigation takes is to analyze the data output of the early stage design process itself, rather than focus on the design artifact alone. The goal is to model and determine methods for evaluating the concept generation and exploration process. Measures will be determined through analysis of design process information, such as text, sketches, and prototypes drawn from design artifacts and design documentation.The evolution of these artifacts and design process will be modeled and combined with process measures to serve as indicators of potential design outcomes and used as feedback for the dynamic design process. This work will be conducted in active collaboration with engineering companies, including those in the aerospace and automotive industries. Closely linked to this research are efforts to expose K-12 students to early stage engineering design via hands-on, project-based design activities with organizations such as the Tech Museum of Innovation, and through a documentary video production that promotes engineering. These endeavors aim to engage young people in early stage engineering design and cultivate their interest in engineering in general, and will likely achieve new teaching and learning paradigms for innovative engineering design.

该早期教师职业发展（CAREER）项目将工程设计早期制定阶段的研究与大学生教育和K-12青少年的外展相结合。设计的早期阶段包括潜在设计概念的生成、探索和选择。在此阶段做出的决定可能会对设计过程的其余部分及其结果产生重大影响。理想情况下，可以在设计的早期阶段跟踪单个设计中的更改，以便可以对最终设计进行潜在评估。然而，早期阶段的设计过程本质上是高度流动和非结构化的，使得这种测量非常具有挑战性。本研究采用的方法是分析早期设计过程本身的数据输出，而不是仅仅关注设计工件。我们的目标是建立模型，并确定评估概念生成和探索过程的方法。将通过分析设计过程信息（如从设计工件和设计文档中提取的文本、草图和原型）来确定度量。这些工件和设计过程的演变将被建模，并与过程度量相结合，以作为潜在设计结果的指标，并用作动态设计过程的反馈。这项工作将与包括航空航天和汽车工业在内的工程公司积极合作。与这项研究密切相关的是，通过与创新科技博物馆等组织进行的基于项目的动手设计活动，以及通过促进工程的纪录片视频制作，让K-12学生接触早期工程设计。这些努力旨在让年轻人参与早期工程设计，培养他们对工程的兴趣，并可能为创新工程设计实现新的教学和学习模式。