2008 NSF/ASME Student Design Essay Competition: Foundations of Design

学生设计征文比赛：设计基础该奖项的目的是支持本科生和研究生参加一年一度的美国机械工程师协会(ASME)国际设计工程技术会议。第二个目标是鼓励学生深入思考工程设计在未来20-30年会是什么样子。学生们将在一篇文章中交流他们对这一主题的看法，这篇文章将由一群杰出的工程设计研究人员和教育工作者来评判。将为通过设计征文比赛选拔的学生提供路费。会议将组织一场海报会议，让学生有机会与研究人员互动，讨论他们对工程设计未来的想法。该奖项支持NSF的目标：在美国各级科学、数学、工程和技术教育中实现卓越，特别是在以下方面？为年轻人提供机会，吸引他们进入科学、数学和工程领域，并为他们的职业生涯做好准备。该竞赛将通过ASME会议网站和发给工程设计研究人员团体的电子邮件进行广泛宣传。将该任务作为行业员工的练习，要求学生考虑全球竞争力对工程设计实践的影响。会议经验促进了个别学生的成长，也有助于加强S家机构研究的整体研究质量，因为这些知识在他们的同龄人之间分享。

Student Design Essay Competition: Foundations of DesignThe objective of this award is to support undergraduate and graduate student attendance at the annual American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Design Engineering Technical Conferences. A secondary objective is to encourage students to think deeply about what engineering design will be like 20-30 years in the future. Students will communicate their thoughts on this topic in an essay which will be judged by a distinguished group of engineering design researchers and educators. Travel funds will be provided for students who are selected through the design essay competition. A poster session will be organized at the conference to give the students an opportunity to interact with researchers and discuss their ideas on the future of engineering design.This award supports the NSF goal of ?achieve excellence in U.S. Science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education at all levels?, especially, with respect to ?provide opportunities for young people that will attract them to and prepare them for careers in science, mathematics, and engineering?. The competition will be widely advertised through the ASME conference website and through emails to groups of researchers in engineering design. Posing the task as an exercise by an industry employee requires the students to consider the effect of global competitiveness on engineering design practices. Conference experiences promote growth in individual students and can also serve to strengthen the overall research quality of the research at the student?s home institution when this knowledge is shared among their peers.