I/UCRC Planning Grant: Center for e-Design

伊利诺伊大学的研究工作支持电子设计中心？我们的长期目标是开发一种新的设计范式。具体的重点领域包括：1)基于商业的设计方法，2)企业产品交付流程的优化，3)基于行业的设计教育和培训，4)机器人和人机交互，以及5)可持续性设计。该场地的增加加强了中心的存在，并提高了其实现以下结果的能力：1)包括确保在工程产品和/或系统设计中开发卓越新范例所需的多学科观点；2)实现概念建模工具，旨在减少设计周期时间，并确保最大限度地实现供人类使用的设计目标；3)实现经济和供应链设计优化的环境；4)建立临界质量的专业知识，专注于开发电子设计建模和仿真软件平台和虚拟原型工具，以及实现基于仿真的获取策略。这项提议的努力将有助于工程学院和商学院的研究生和本科生的发展和准备。此研究成果将整合到教育课程中，以丰富学生在策略性商业设计、建模与仿真、决策分析和工业设计课程中的学习经验。与电子设计中心相关的学生将获得职业发展机会，包括实验室和实地研究，出席跨学科会议和研讨会并发表演讲，以及参与跨学科活动和期刊出版物。伊利诺伊大学加入该中心有助于中心的多样性，领导团队和一些参与教师是女性。PI和I大学的其他教员将着重招收女性和少数民族研究生和本科生。研究和教育成果将通过工业合作和技术转让在全国范围内传播。

The University of Illinois research efforts support the Center for e-Design?s long-term goal of developing a new design paradigm. The specific focus areas include: 1) business-based design methods, 2) optimization of corporate product delivery processes, 3) industry-based design education and training, 4) robotics and human-automation interaction, and 5) design for sustainability. This site addition strengthens the presence of the Center and increases its capability for achieving the following results: 1) inclusion of a multi-disciplinary viewpoint needed to ensure the development of a new paradigm of excellence in the design of engineered products and/or systems; 2) realization of conceptual modeling tools aimed at reducing design cycle time and ensuring maximum achievement of design goals for human use; 3) realization of an environment for economic and supply chain design optimization; 4) establishment of a critical mass of expertise focused on the development of an e-Design modeling and simulation software platform and virtual prototyping tools, as well as strategies for achieving simulation based acquisition.The proposed effort will contribute to the development and preparation of graduate and undergraduate students across both engineering and business colleges. Results of this research effort will be integrated into the educational curriculum to enrich the student learning experiences in strategic business-based design, modeling and simulation, decision analysis, and industry-based design courses. Students associated with the Center for e-Design will receive career development opportunities, that include laboratory and field studies, attendance and presentations at interdisciplinary conferences and workshops, and participation in interdisciplinary activities and journal publications. The addition of the University of Illinois to the Center contributes to the diversity of the Center with the leadership team and several participating faculty being women. The PI and other U of I faculty will emphasize recruitment of women and minority graduate and undergraduate students. Research and educational findings will be disseminated nationally and through industrial collaboration and technology transfer.