Student Design Essay Competition "Challenges in the Design of Complex Systems"; Travel Support to ASME IDETC 2014, ASME IDETC 2015, AIAA MAO 2016, and ASME IDETC 2016 Conferences

该奖项支持美国国家科学基金会“在美国各级科学、数学、工程和技术教育中取得卓越成就”的目标，并将“为年轻人提供机会，吸引他们从事科学、数学和工程方面的职业，并为他们做好准备”。通过学生征文比赛，本科生和研究生将被选中参加工程和系统设计领域的两个重要会议。该竞赛将通过美国机械工程师学会（ASME）和美国航空航天学会（AIAA）的会议网站以及工程设计研究人员广泛宣传。将论文作业作为行业员工的练习，要求学生考虑全球竞争力对工程设计实践的影响，特别是在复杂系统的情况下。会议经验促进了学生个人的成长，当这些知识在同龄人中分享时，也有助于加强学生所在机构的整体研究质量。该奖项的目的是支持本科生和研究生参加年度ASME国际设计工程技术会议（IDETC）和AIAA多学科分析与优化（MAO）会议。第二个目标是鼓励学生深入思考未来20-30年复杂系统的工程设计将会是什么样子。学生将在一篇由杰出的工程设计研究人员和教育工作者评判的文章中交流他们对这个主题的想法。通过设计论文比赛的学生将获得旅费。会议将安排海报环节，让学生有机会与研究人员互动，讨论他们对未来复杂系统工程设计的想法。

This award supports the NSF goal to 'achieve excellence in U.S. Science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education at all levels', and will 'provide opportunities for young people that will attract them to and prepare them for careers in science, mathematics, and engineering'. Through a student essay competition, undergraduate and graduate students will be selected to attend two premier conferences in engineering and systems design. The competition will be widely advertised through the conference websites of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and to researchers in engineering design. Posing the essay assignment as an exercise by an industry employee requires the students to consider the effect of global competitiveness on engineering design practices, particularly in light of complex systems. Conference experiences promote growth in individual students and can also serve to strengthen the overall research quality of the research at the student's home institution when this knowledge is shared among their peers. The objective of this award is to support undergraduate and graduate student attendance at the annual ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and the AIAA Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization (MAO) Conference. A secondary objective is to encourage students to think deeply about what engineering design of complex systems will be like 20-30 years in the future. Students will communicate their thoughts on this topic in an essay which will be judged by a distinguished group of engineering design researchers and educators. Travel funds will be provided for students who are selected through the design essay competition. A poster session will be organized at the conferences to give the students an opportunity to interact with researchers and discuss their ideas on the future of engineering design of complex systems.