I/UCRC Planning Grant: Center for e-Design

伊利诺伊大学的研究工作支持了电子设计中心S开发新设计范式的长期目标。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)可持续发展设计。该场地的增加加强了该中心的存在，并提高了其实现以下成果的能力：1)纳入了确保在工程产品和/或系统设计中开发新的卓越范例所需的多学科观点；2)实现了旨在缩短设计周期时间和确保最大限度地实现设计目标的概念性建模工具；3)实现了经济和供应链设计优化的环境；4)建立一支关键的专业队伍，重点开发e-Design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采购的策略。拟议的努力将有助于培养和准备工程和商业学院的研究生和本科生。这项研究的成果将被整合到教育课程中，以丰富学生在基于战略的商业设计、建模和模拟、决策分析和基于行业的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，参加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该中心的多样性，领导团队和几名参与工作的教职员工都是女性。PI和I大学的其他教职员工将强调招聘女性和少数族裔研究生和本科生。研究和教育成果将通过产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.