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: 1041380
• 负责人: Kyoung-Yun Kim
• 金额: $ 11万
• 依托单位: Wayne State University
• 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=1041380&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.

韦恩州立大学的可持续产品开发合作实验室正在实现可持续设计和制造的合作电子学习实验室？可持续产品开发合作实验室？在产品架构设计、制造、装配和供应链决策的背景下，在一系列积极的学习者中传达可持续性原则（即，K-12，大学和从业人员）。智力优势：这个合作实验室是创造性和原创性的，因为它将产生一个全面的和广泛可用的工具，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、语义装配设计、产品结构优化、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，满足学习者（K-12学生，工程专业学生和从业人员）的需求。该项目正在实现四项成果。成果一：一个用户友好和免许可证的基于网络的工具和交互式电子学习平台，以教育用户在可持续设计和制造。该合作实验室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）。研究人员正在克服现有技术的局限性，其中包括缺乏可扩展的工具/技术，可以在产品开发的所有阶段捕获产品设计架构和生命周期过程要求之间的相互依赖性，以及通过灵活的，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：提供与合作实验室互动的实践项目活动的中学和中学后教育材料。成果三：评价工具，以评估合作实验室在教育学生了解网络基础设施方面的教育影响和能力，包括对参与的高中和大学的学生以及用户采用网络平台的情况进行评估。迄今为止，可持续设计和制造的基层活动已经达到了相当高的水平。然而，工程项目和制造公司继续努力与方法，教育工程师在整体产品和工艺开发的生命周期成本和环境影响的观点。成果四：这项研究将吸引高中生和代表性不足的大学生，以促进多元化的网络就绪劳动力。在网络学习者范式下，用户正在体验和进行可持续产品设计，考虑产品，工艺和供应链的影响，促进产品架构和环境性能知识集。更广泛的影响：拟议的工作直接响应网络使能的劳动力和可持续工程教育的需求，通过网络产品设计提高对产品和环境可持续性的认识。与可持续发展相关的研究已被证明不成比例地吸引学生从代表性不足的群体到STEM学科，并将扩大他们对下一代工程教育和研究的参与。为了提高劳动力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，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。该合作实验室直接支持产品制造业通过教育工程师可持续设计通过访问网络为基础的工具。这些工具将有助于维持美国工业？通过提高机械产品的生产率、质量和可持续性，增强企业的竞争优势。鉴于参与项目的大学，特别是底特律的韦恩州立大学的学生人数不足，该项目将通过让妇女和少数民族高中生和大学生参与研究和实地考察，支持社会教育需求。该项目的成功实施将有助于以较低的成本为学术机构开发新的教学方法，将可持续性纳入工程课程，并培养一支满足现代工业可持续产品开发需求的熟练劳动力队伍。建议的综合学习环境也将促进高中生？通过有形的，现实的例子多步骤解决问题的技能。最后，该项目将通过扩大以往研究成果的影响和为其他研究和教育项目的合作奠定基础，加强研究和教育基础设施。