Workshop: Defining the Opportunities and Challenges for Research in Materials and Manufacturing for Extreme Affordability (RIMMEA); Muncie, Indiana; January 20-21, 2011

这笔赠款将为一个关于极端可负担性材料和制造研究(RIMMEA)的研讨会提供资金，该研讨会将汇集来自世界各地的建筑、设计、工程和科学专家。为期两天的研讨会是鲍尔州立大学、美国机械工程师协会(ASME)和IEEE(财务支持)的合作伙伴关系，将于2011年1月在印第安纳州芒西市举办。研讨会将侧重于各种研究机会，从应用先进的制造和物流技术来提供极其负担得起的临时和长期住房解决方案(这些解决方案也植根于文化)，到极其负担得起的材料和制造解决方案在救灾和国防中的作用。将探讨跨越建筑、工业设计、工程、物流和战略的国际收支问题。除了实施研讨会和对参与者之间的学习进行成果评估外，研讨会还将导致确定通过采用综合和系统方法最好地解决RIMMEA的重要问题；为确定主题的科学成熟度和优点制定优先事项和评估标准；为进一步发展RIMMEA计划建立研究社区；以及为NSF为RIMMEA申请额外国家资源提供基础的报告。研讨会将促进美国和国际与会者的多样性，影响30多名研究人员，并直接影响国际收支机构的数十亿人。在ASME、无国界工程师组织、IEEE、美国运营组织和蜜蜂网络等拥有全球网络的组织的参与下，研讨会的经验教训可以得到很高的传播。

The grant provides funding for a workshop on Research in Materials and Manufacturing for Extreme Affordability (RIMMEA) that will bring together experts from architecture, design, engineering and science from around the world. The two-day workshop is a partnership between Ball State University, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and IEEE (financial support), to be hosted in Muncie, Indiana in January 2011. The workshop will focus on research opportunities range from application of advanced manufacturing and logistics technologies to deliver extremely affordable temporary and long term housing solutions that are also culturally rooted to the role of extremely affordable materials and manufacturing solutions for disaster relief and defense. BoP problems spanning architecture, industrial design, engineering, logistics, and strategy will be explored.In addition to implementing the workshop and conducting an outcomes assessment of the learning that occurred among participants, the workshop will lead to the identification of important RIMMEA questions that are best addressed by employing integrated and systems approaches; development of priorities and assessment criteria for determining scientific maturity and merit of the topics; establishment of a research community for the further development of a RIMMEA program; and a report that provides NSF with a basis for requesting additional national resources for RIMMEA. The workshop will promote diversity among US and international attendees, impact more than thirty researchers, and directly impact billions of people at the BoP. With the involvement of organizations with worldwide networks such as ASME, Engineers without Borders, IEEE, OperationUSA, and The Honeybee Network, dissemination of learning from the workshop can be high.