CAREER: From Risk Aversion to Innovation: Transforming the Concept Selection Process to Maximize Product Success

职业生涯：从风险规避到创新：转变概念选择流程以最大限度地提高产品成功率

• 批准号: 1351493
• 负责人: Scarlett Miller
• 金额: $ 40万
• 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: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1351493&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Risk; Aversion; Innovation; Transforming

The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award is to develop a theoretical understanding of the factors that influence the filtering and promotion of creative ideas through the concept selection process. Three research tasks contribute to achieving this objective. First, an understanding of the fundamental relationship between risk aversion and innovation is being developed through experimental investigations with engineering design students and industry professionals. Second, novel methods for assessing concept creativity are being developed and tested for their impact on the promotion of filtering of creative ideas during the concept selection process. Third, substantive and empirical studies are being conducted to validate the utility of concept selection methods for maximizing the potential for innovation through engineering design courses.If successful, the results of this research will advance the field of engineering design by developing a theoretical framework for research that investigates the relationship between risk, innovation and concept selection. Designers will be provided with the tools necessary to identify and promote creative ideas throughout the design process. These design tools will also allow companies to develop a sustainable innovation capacity. This research will have an immediate impact on undergraduate students by providing them with concept selection tools and a series of web-based modules to be used in project-based design courses. Other activities, including a design training program geared at undergraduate and graduate women in the US and Morocco, and a K-12 EngInn (Engineering Innovators) outreach program, will disseminate the results to the public, engineering industry, and academia.

该学院早期职业发展（CAREER）奖的研究目标是通过概念选择过程对影响创造性想法的过滤和推广的因素进行理论理解。三项研究任务有助于实现这一目标。首先，通过与工程设计专业学生和行业专业人士的实验调查，对风险规避和创新之间的基本关系进行了了解。第二，新的方法来评估概念的创造性正在开发和测试的影响，促进过滤的创造性的想法在概念选择过程中。第三，为了通过工程设计课程最大限度地发挥创新潜力，对概念选择方法的实用性进行实证研究。如果成功，本研究的结果将通过建立研究风险、创新和概念选择之间关系的理论框架，推动工程设计领域的发展。设计师将提供必要的工具，以确定和促进整个设计过程中的创意。这些设计工具还将使公司能够发展可持续的创新能力。这项研究将对本科生产生直接影响，为他们提供概念选择工具和一系列基于网络的模块，用于基于项目的设计课程。其他活动，包括面向美国和摩洛哥的本科生和研究生女性的设计培训计划，以及K-12 EngInn（工程创新者）推广计划，将向公众，工程行业和学术界传播成果。

项目成果

Choosing creativity: the role of individual risk and ambiguity aversion on creative concept selection in engineering design

选择创造力：个体风险和模糊厌恶对工程设计创意概念选择的作用

• DOI: 10.1007/s00163-015-0212-1
• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: Research in Engineering Design
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Toh, Christine A.;Miller, Scarlett R.
• 通讯作者: Miller, Scarlett R.

The Effects of Gender and Idea Goodness on Ownership Bias in Engineering Design Education

• DOI: 10.1115/1.4034107
• 发表时间: 2016-10
• 期刊: Journal of Mechanical Design
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Christine Toh;Andrew A. Strohmetz;Scarlett R. Miller

Abandoning creativity: The evolution of creative ideas in engineering design course projects

• DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2016.08.003
• 发表时间: 2016-11
• 期刊: Design Studies
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: Elizabeth Starkey;Christine Toh;Scarlett R. Miller

Does It Translate? A Case Study of Conceptual Design Outcomes With U.S. and Moroccan Students

它能翻译吗？

• DOI: 10.1115/detc2020-22623
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
• 作者: Peng, Aoran;Menold, Jessica;Miller, Scarlett R.
• 通讯作者: Miller, Scarlett R.

How engineering teams select design concepts: A view through the lens of creativity

工程团队如何选择设计概念：创造力的视角

• DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2015.03.001
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: Design Studies
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: Toh, Christine A.;Miller, Scarlett R.
• 通讯作者: Miller, Scarlett R.