CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: Collaborative Research - A Sustainable Product Development Collaboratory

CI-TEAM示范项目：协作研究——可持续产品开发合作实验室

• 批准号: 1041328
• 负责人: Gul Kremer
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2012-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1041328&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; TEAM; Demonstration; Project; Collaborative

This Sustainable Product Development Collaboratory at Wayne State University is realizing a collaborative e-learning laboratory for sustainable design and manufacturing a Sustainable Product Development Collaboratory for conveying sustainability principles in the context of product architectural design, manufacturing, assembly, and supply chain decisions across a spectrum of active learners (i.e., K-12, university, and practitioners). Intellectual Merit: This collaboratory is creative and original because it will result in a holistic and broadly useable tool that will support cyber-based conceptual product design by integrating existing research in the following areas: distributed decision support, semantic assembly design, product architecture optimization, assembly and process analysis, supply chain configuration, life cycle assessment, and manufacturing education innovation, to address the needs across a spectrum of learners (K-12 students, engineering students, and practitioners). The project is delivering four outcomes. Outcome one: A user friendly and license-free web-based tool and interactive e-learning platform to educate users in sustainable design and manufacturing. This collaboratory is demonstrating the effects of different product designs on supply chain costs and environmental impacts with learner friendly examples (i.e., three ring binder, backpack, electric toothbrush, and bicycle). Researchers are overcoming limitations of the existing state of the art, which include a lack of scalable tools/technologies that can capture interdependencies between product design architecture and life cycle process requirements at all phases of product development, and the complexity of jointly improving the product and processes through flexible, representative models and algorithms. Outcome two: Secondary and post-secondary educational materials that provide hands-on, project-based activities in interaction with the Collaboratory. Outcome three: Evaluation tools to assess the educational impacts and competency of the Collaboratory in educating students about cyberinfrastructure, including assessment of students at the participating high school and universities and user adoption of the cyber-platform. To date, there has been a significant level of grassroots activities for sustainable design and manufacturing. However, engineering programs and manufacturing companies continue to struggle with methods to educate engineers in holistic product and process development with a view of life cycle costs and environmental effects. Outcome four: This research will engage high-school students and underrepresented college populations to promote a diverse cyber-ready workforce. Under the cyber-learner paradigm, users are experiencing and undertaking sustainable product design with consideration of product, process, and supply chain impacts facilitated by product architecture and environmental performance knowledge sets. Broader Impacts: The proposed work directly responds to the needs for a cyber-enabled workforce and sustainable engineering education by increasing awareness of product and environmental sustainability through cyber-based product design. Sustainability-related research has been shown to disproportionately attract students to STEM disciplines from underrepresented groups, and will broaden their involvement in next generation engineering education and research. To increase workforce preparedness for design and environmental sustainability, the Collaboratory is supporting the development of products and related supply chains for increased performance, reduced costs, and reduced environmental impacts (e.g., carbon footprint). Indeed, the trend towards outsourcing will lead to growth of the global carbon footprint, even without accounting for associated transportation, due to less efficient energy generation and manufacturing processes. The Collaboratory is directly supporting the product manufacturing industry by educating engineers about sustainable design through accessible cyber-based tools. These tools will help maintain the U.S. industry's competitive edge by enhancing productivity, and quality and sustainability of mechanical products. Given the underrepresented student populations at participating universities, and in particular Wayne State in Detroit, the project will support societal educational needs by involving women and minority high school and university students in research and field studies. Successful implementation of the project will help to develop, at a modest cost, new pedagogy for academic institutions to integrate sustainability into engineering curricula, and prepare a skilled workforce that meets the needs of modern industry for sustainable product development. The proposed integrated learning environment will also advance high school students' multi-step problem solving skills through tangible, realistic examples. Finally, the project will enhance research and education infrastructure by extending the effects of previous research findings and by forming the basis for collaboration on other research and education projects.

韦恩州立大学的这个可持续产品开发合作实验室正在实现一个可持续设计和制造的协作电子学习实验室一个可持续产品开发合作实验室，在产品架构设计、制造、组装和供应链决策的背景下，跨一系列活跃的学习者(即K-12、大学和实践者)传达可持续发展原则。智力优势：这个合作是创造性和原创性的，因为它将产生一个全面和广泛使用的工具，通过整合以下领域的现有研究来支持基于网络的概念产品设计：分布式决策支持、语义组装设计、产品架构优化、装配和工艺分析、供应链配置、生命周期评估和制造教育创新，以满足不同学习者(K-12学生、工程学生和实践者)的需求。该项目将产生四项成果。成果一：建立一个用户友好和免许可证的网络工具和交互式电子学习平台，教育用户可持续设计和制造。该合作实验室正在通过对学习者友好的例子(即三环活页夹、背包、电动牙刷和自行车)来演示不同产品设计对供应链成本和环境影响的影响。研究人员正在克服现有技术水平的局限性，包括缺乏可扩展的工具/技术来捕捉产品开发所有阶段产品设计架构和生命周期过程要求之间的相互依赖关系，以及通过灵活、有代表性的模型和算法联合改进产品和过程的复杂性。成果二：中学和中学后教育材料提供与合作实验室互动的实践活动和基于项目的活动。结果三：评估合作实验室在对学生进行有关网络基础设施的教育方面的教育影响和能力的评估工具，包括对参与的高中和大学的学生的评估以及用户对网络平台的采用情况。到目前为止，在可持续设计和制造方面已经开展了相当多的基层活动。然而，工程项目和制造公司继续努力寻找方法，从生命周期成本和环境影响的角度对工程师进行全面的产品和工艺开发方面的教育。结果四：这项研究将吸引高中生和代表性不足的大学人口，以促进多样化的网络就绪劳动力。在网络学习者模式下，用户正在体验和进行可持续的产品设计，并考虑到产品架构和环境性能知识集促进的产品、流程和供应链的影响。更广泛的影响：拟议的工作通过基于网络的产品设计提高对产品和环境可持续性的认识，直接回应对网络使能的劳动力和可持续工程教育的需求。与可持续性相关的研究已被证明不成比例地吸引了来自代表性不足群体的学生进入STEM学科，并将扩大他们对下一代工程教育和研究的参与。为了加强员工对设计和环境可持续性的准备，合作实验室正在支持产品和相关供应链的开发，以提高性能、降低成本并减少对环境的影响(例如，碳足迹)。事实上，外包的趋势将导致全球碳足迹的增长，即使不考虑相关的运输，因为能源生产和制造过程的效率较低。合作实验室通过可访问的基于网络的工具教育工程师可持续设计，直接支持产品制造业。这些工具将通过提高机械产品的生产率、质量和可持续性，帮助保持美国工业的竞争优势。鉴于参与大学的学生人数不足，特别是底特律的韦恩州立大学，该项目将通过让妇女和少数族裔高中生和大学生参与研究和实地研究来支持社会教育需求。该项目的成功实施将有助于以适当的费用为学术机构开发新的教学方法，以便将可持续发展纳入工程课程，并培养一支熟练的劳动力队伍，满足现代工业对可持续产品开发的需要。建议的整合学习环境也将通过有形的、现实的例子来提高高中生解决问题的多步骤技能。最后，该项目将扩大以前研究成果的影响，并为其他研究和教育项目的合作奠定基础，从而加强研究和教育基础设施。