Workshop/Collaborative Research: When Engineering Design Meets Architecture; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Fall 2010

这笔赠款提供资金，组织和进行为期两天的研讨会，使和促进建筑和工程设计研究人员之间的合作研究议程。这个研讨会的知识价值在于通过积极参与工程设计和建筑之间有争议的边界问题所获得的知识。 本次研讨会的目标是：1）提供一个论坛，以确定和讨论建筑和工程设计研究人员之间的有效合作的障碍; 2）允许参与者分享最佳实践和成功的合作策略; 3）检查所确定的障碍和最佳实践如何影响设计教育;和4）确定合作研究方向的建筑和工程设计研究人员追求在NSF。该研讨会将邀请来自学术界，工业界和政府机构的50人参加，邀请来自广泛的建筑设计和工程设计社区的参与者。研讨会的结果将记录在一份报告中，该报告将通过网站和电子邮件分发给适当的社区。如果成功，该研讨会将促进设计教学法，以改善工程设计和建筑的教育实践。 将探索和确定社区之间的协同作用，并制定新的研究议程。该研讨会有可能对建筑师和工程师处理复杂建筑结构设计的方式产生重大影响，特别是考虑到目前对绿色设计的重视。将探讨和强调基于项目的学习的吸引力，以吸引最优秀和最聪明的设计专业。来自费城特许建筑与设计高中（CHAD）的代表将被邀请参加研讨会，扩大宾州州立大学目前的外展合作伙伴关系，并提出从提供大学预科设计教育到多样化的学生群体的挑战和机遇。

This grant provides funding to organize and conduct a two-day workshop to enable and promote collaborative research agendas between architectural and engineering design researchers. The intellectual merit of this workshop lies in the knowledge gained by aggressively engaging the issues at the contested border between engineering design and architecture. The objectives of this workshop are to: 1) provide a forum to identify and discuss the barriers to effective collaboration between architecture and engineering design researchers; 2) allow participants to share best practices and successful collaborative strategies; 3) examine how the barriers and best practices identified should impact design education; and 4) identify collaborative research directions for architectural and engineering design researchers to pursue at NSF. The workshop will engage 50 people from academia, industry, and government agencies by inviting participants from a wide range of architectural design and engineering design communities. The results of the workshop will be documented in a report that will be distributed through a website and emails to appropriate communities.If successful, this workshop will promote design pedagogy to improve educational practices in both engineering design and architecture. Synergies between communities will be explored and identified, with new research agendas being developed. The workshop has the potential to significantly impact the way in which architects and engineers approach the design of complex building structures, particularly in light of the present emphasis on green design. The attractiveness of project-based learning will be explored and emphasized to attract the best and brightest to the design professions. Representatives from Philadelphias Charter High School for Architecture and Design (CHAD) will be invited to participate in the workshop, extending Penn States current outreach partnership and presenting the challenges and opportunities from offering pre-college design education to a diverse population of students.