CAREER: Measuring and Modeling Innovation and Risk in Engineering Design

职业：测量和建模工程设计中的创新和风险

• 批准号: 1150536
• 负责人: Katja Holtta-Otto
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1150536&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Measuring; Modeling; Innovation; Risk

The research objective of this Faculty Early Career (CAREER) award is to investigate how engineering design innovation and risk balance differs in small new ventures, as opposed to larger more mature corporations, so as to model contributing factors that will enable development of improved engineering design methods and processes. Data for the hypothesis testing will be gathered from published lists of award winning products, a survey of US new ventures and larger companies in selected industries defined by NAICS codes, and from partnering new ventures. A predictive model of engineering design level factors contributing to new venture success will be developed. This is an initial step toward discovering how engineering design methods should be different in new ventures as opposed to larger companies. This research will result in knowledge on how to balance one of the key contributor/barrier trade-offs to success: innovation versus technical risk. This new knowledge will be transferred into a validated teaching methodology that will be immediately applied in student design projects and that will be transferred to other institutions through workshops and scholarly publications. If successful, this work will increase the ability to model risk and innovation during the engineering design process and, due to the reflection of small venture issues, will lead to greater success of new ventures that are vital to the overall economy of the nation. The work will have an immediate effect on local industry through collaborations with a partnering new technology venture center. On the national scale, such university affiliated new ventures have contributed $34 billion to the economy. The integration to teaching through the co-located design projects will help educate engineering entrepreneurs. In hopes of enticing pursuit of STEM careers and in collaboration with the Society for Women Engineers, the research results are incorporated into an annual One Day Design project for local middle school girls. Finally, all results will be published at multiple levels including journal papers, brown bag lunches with a local entrepreneurs' forum, and national and international conferences.

该学院早期职业（职业）奖的研究目标是调查小型新企业与大型成熟企业的工程设计创新和风险平衡有何不同，从而对影响因素进行建模，从而改进工程设计方法和流程的开发。假设检验的数据将从公布的获奖产品清单、对 NAICS 代码定义的选定行业中的美国新企业和大公司的调查以及合作新企业中收集。 将开发有助于新企业成功的工程设计水平因素的预测模型。这是探索新企业与大公司的工程设计方法有何不同的第一步。这项研究将带来有关如何平衡成功的关键贡献者/障碍权衡之一的知识：创新与技术风险。这些新知识将被转化为经过验证的教学方法，该方法将立即应用于学生设计项目，并通过研讨会和学术出版物转移到其他机构。如果成功，这项工作将提高工程设计过程中风险和创新建模的能力，并且由于小型企业问题的反映，将导致对国家整体经济至关重要的新企业取得更大成功。通过与新技术风险投资中心的合作，这项工作将对当地工业产生立竿见影的影响。在全国范围内，此类大学附属新企业为经济贡献了 340 亿美元。通过同地办公的设计项目与教学相结合将有助于教育工程企业家。 为了吸引人们对 STEM 职业的追求，并与女工程师协会合作，研究结果被纳入针对当地中学生的年度“一日设计”项目。最后，所有结果都将在多个层面发表，包括期刊论文、与当地企业家论坛的午餐会以及国内和国际会议。