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Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for REstorative infrastructure through Convergent Engineering and Psychology (RE‐CEP)

规划补助金：通过融合工程和心理学（RE）恢复基础设施工程研究中心

基本信息

批准号：
1840560
负责人：
Leidy Klotz
金额：
$ 9.89万
依托单位：
University of Virginia Main Campus
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-09-01 至 2020-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840560&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Planning Grant Engineering Research Center

项目摘要

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.Our infrastructure influences everyone, and even those who never use it. Buildings and roads are where we spend most of our time and also account for the majority of energy use and associated emissions in the United States and globally. This project pursues transformative infrastructure improvements through a new approach merging engineering and psychology. The new approach promises solutions that do not rely solely on material resources, which often cost less than purely technological responses, and can be more rapidly translated from research to practice. Beyond better infrastructure, this project's merging of engineering and psychology promises societal impacts in three additional ways. First, through engineering workforce development, by not only better preparing engineers for current engineering jobs, but also by extending the types of jobs for which engineering students are prepared. Second, through diversity and culture of inclusion, by broadening the pool of people who see themselves as potential engineers and by appealing to a more diverse group of prospective engineers. And third, by building an innovation ecosystem through the embedded industry partnerships that are central to this project. This project is to plan for an ERC that envisions services (e.g., shelter, mobility, and water) provided via infrastructure that goes beyond reducing negative environmental impacts to actually creating positive ones. Such restorative infrastructure addresses engineering grand challenges and supports global development goals. Restorative infrastructure is elusive, however, in large part because it requires merged understanding of technological and social systems, and therefore of engineering and psychology. The potential ERC will pursue convergence research between these disciplines, focused on identifying obstacles to and opportunities for creating restorative infrastructure. The project core team brings together engineers and psychologists, academics and practitioners, already working together on convergence research for restorative infrastructure. This planning grant will help the core team mature these unique existing relationships and extend team formation to a larger stakeholder community. The team plans to facilitate engineering workforce development with embedded research residencies in which researchers study fundamental questions in natural contexts with program partners. The core team will identify and fill gaps in disciplinary and practical expertise through in-person planning charrettes held in conjunction with the ideas42 Behavioral Summit (October 2018, New York) and Engineering Sustainability Conference (April 2019, Pittsburgh). Building upon the in-person meetings, virtual bi-weekly meet-ups will include invited presentations followed by structured conversation around ERC pillars. Economics and other fields have advanced their theoretical foundations by rigorously incorporating psychology to account for systematic deviations from "rational" models of consistent, utility-maximizing, thinking and behavior. This ERC seeks analogous advances for engineering, through the social focus on restorative infrastructure. Research will advance understanding of environmental sustainability, infrastructure systems, and engineering design. Pursuing this vision will make much-needed intellectual contributions to both extend the boundaries of engineering as well as bring more applications of psychology into engineering-related research and practice.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

工程研究中心的规划赠款竞争是作为ERC计划内的试点招标运行。 ERC竞赛不要求提供规划赠款，但旨在培养团队规划集中的中心规模工程研究的能力。我们的基础设施影响着每个人，甚至影响着那些从未使用过基础设施的人。建筑物和道路是我们花费大部分时间的地方，也是美国和全球能源使用和相关排放的主要来源。该项目通过融合工程学和心理学的新方法来追求变革性的基础设施改进。这种新的方法有望提供不完全依赖物质资源的解决方案，因为物质资源往往比纯粹的技术对策成本更低，而且可以更快地从研究转化为实践。除了更好的基础设施，该项目将工程学和心理学相结合，还将在三个方面产生社会影响。首先，通过工程劳动力的发展，不仅更好地准备工程师目前的工程工作，而且还通过扩大工程专业学生准备的工作类型。第二，通过多样性和包容性文化，扩大那些认为自己是潜在工程师的人的范围，吸引更多样化的潜在工程师群体。第三，通过嵌入式行业合作伙伴关系建立创新生态系统，这是该项目的核心。本项目旨在规划一个ERC，设想服务（例如，住房、流动性和水），这不仅是通过基础设施来减少负面的环境影响，而且实际上是创造积极的环境影响。这种恢复性基础设施解决了工程上的重大挑战，并支持全球发展目标。然而，恢复性基础设施是难以捉摸的，这在很大程度上是因为它需要对技术和社会系统以及工程学和心理学的综合理解。潜在的ERC将继续进行这些学科之间的融合研究，重点是确定建立恢复性基础设施的障碍和机会。该项目的核心团队汇集了工程师和心理学家，学者和从业者，他们已经在恢复性基础设施的融合研究方面展开了合作。这项规划补助金将帮助核心团队成熟这些独特的现有关系，并将团队组建扩展到更大的利益相关者社区。该团队计划通过嵌入式研究驻地促进工程劳动力的发展，研究人员在自然环境中与项目合作伙伴一起研究基本问题。核心团队将通过与ideas42 Behavioral Summit（2018年10月，纽约）和Engineering Sustainability Conference（2019年4月，匹兹堡）一起举行的亲自规划charrettes来确定和填补学科和实践专业知识的空白。在面对面会议的基础上，虚拟双周会议将包括邀请演讲，然后围绕ERC支柱进行结构化对话。经济学和其他领域通过严格结合心理学来解释与一致的、效用最大化的思维和行为的“理性”模型的系统性偏差，从而推进了它们的理论基础。ERC通过对恢复性基础设施的社会关注，寻求类似的工程进步。研究将促进对环境可持续性，基础设施系统和工程设计的理解。追求这一愿景将作出急需的智力贡献，既扩大了工程的界限，也把更多的心理学应用到工程相关的研究和实践中。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。