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

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未来20-30年的工程设计会是什么样子。学生将在一篇由杰出的工程设计研究人员和教育工作者评判的文章中交流他们对这个主题的想法。通过设计论文比赛的学生将获得旅费。会议将安排海报环节，让学生有机会与研究人员互动，讨论他们对未来工程设计的想法。该奖项支持NSF的目标：在美国各级科学、数学、工程和技术教育中取得卓越成就？，特别是关于？为年轻人提供机会，吸引他们从事科学、数学和工程领域的工作，并为他们做好准备。该竞赛将通过ASME会议网站和通过电子邮件向工程设计研究人员团体广泛宣传。将这个任务作为一个行业雇员的练习，要求学生考虑全球竞争力对工程设计实践的影响。会议经历促进了学生个人的成长，也有助于加强学生研究的整体研究质量。当这些知识在他们的同龄人中分享时，他们的家庭机构。

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.