I/UCRC: Penn State University Phase III: Center for e-Design

电子设计中心（CED）是NSF工业/大学合作研究中心（IUCRC），与其成员组织合作，研究和推进与创新，设计，生产，分销和创新和高质量产品和系统的维持相关的复杂问题的解决方案，最大限度地降低成本，并响应快速变化的市场。 产品和支持过程的并行设计;人员、工具和信息之间的改进集成和协作;过程改进;知识捕获和重用;以及自动化/辅助决策只是所采用的一些策略。电子设计中心在六所大学（爱荷华州州立大学、马萨诸塞州大学阿默斯特分校、布法罗大学、杨百翰大学、俄勒冈州州立大学和韦恩州立大学）设有研究中心。该项目增加了宾夕法尼亚州立大学（宾夕法尼亚州立大学），第七所大学，在中心的研究地点。 宾夕法尼亚州立大学带来了来自多个部门，学院，大学中心和研究所的多元化跨学科研究团队的专业知识。 宾夕法尼亚州立大学团队的主要贡献将包括以下领域：基于人群的设计，大数据分析，设计理论和创新，协同设计，设计优化，增材制造，智能制造和基于模型的企业。电子设计中心的活动围绕三个主要努力组织，为行业/政府合作伙伴提供价值：1）基础研究侧重于创建工具，方法和技术，以满足电子工具支持的产品开发和实现的行业相关需求，包括使能信息基础设施;概念设计工具;多学科约束管理和优化;以及虚拟原型和仿真; 2）研究测试平台专注于跨学科研究活动的整合，以验证开发的工具，方法和技术，并为多种应用程序建立一个通用框架，同时促进学术和行业研究项目之间的合作;（3）工程教育与技术转移，其重点是培养一批精通电子设计的新的工程师和科学家骨干，并将研究成果迅速转化为工业和政府的可用应用程序。

The Center for e-Design (CED) is an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) that works with its member organizations to research and advance solutions to complex problems associated with the innovation, design, production, distribution, and sustainment of innovative and high quality products and systems, that minimize costs and are responsive to the rapidly changing marketplace. Concurrent design of products and supporting processes; improved integration and collaboration among people, tools, and information; process improvements; knowledge capture and reuse; and automated/assisted decision-making are just some of the strategies employed. The Center for e-Design has research sites in place at six universities (Iowa State University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Buffalo, Brigham Young University, Oregon State University, and Wayne State University). This project adds The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), a seventh university, to the research sites in the Center. Penn State brings expertise from a diverse interdisciplinary team of researchers from several departments, colleges, university centers and institutes. The primary contribution of the Penn State team will include the following areas: crowd-based design, big data analytics, design theory and innovation, collaborative design, design optimization, additive manufacturing, smart manufacturing, and model-based enterprise.The Center for e-Design's activities are organized around three major efforts which deliver value to its industry/government partners: 1) Fundamental Research focuses on creating tools, methods, and technologies to address industry relevant needs in e-tools-enabled product development and realization including enabling information infrastructure; conceptual design tools; multidisciplinary constraint management and optimization; and virtual prototyping and simulation; 2) Research Test Bed focuses on integration of interdisciplinary research activities to validate developed tools, methods, and technologies and establish a common framework for multiple applications while fostering collaboration between academic and industry research projects; and 3) Engineering Education and Technology Transfer, which focuses on educating a new cadre of engineers and scientists proficient in e-design and rapidly transferring research results into usable applications for industry and government.