Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for DEmocratizing Manufacturing Accessibility for Designers (DEMAND)

规划拨款：设计师民主化制造无障碍工程研究中心 (DEMAND)

• 批准号: 1840621
• 负责人: Jian Cao
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 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 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840621&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

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. The vision for the Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Democratizing Manufacturing Accessibility for Designers (DEMAND) is offer the potential for every designer to fabricate any product seamlessly and intuitively regardless of: 1) expertise or background, 2) connection with manufacturing firms, and 3) product volume (from one of a kind to millions). This vision will be achieved by breaking the deep information "asymmetry" in the existing manufacturing ecosystem and establishing a new Cloud-centric platform on which the designers' ideas and needs can be matched, in real time, with manufacturers' capabilities and capacities. The realization of this ERC vision will democratize manufacturing so that designers of all capabilities, including laypeople, will be empowered to see their ideas realized as useful products. Interested parties will be able to engage in manufacturing activities that can help serve the needs of our evolving society. This framework, in partnership with small and medium businesses, will also help to increase manufacturing output and support the engineering education of our future workforce. The convergent research and collective talent associated with the effort will also be used to explore and create an inclusive environment for underrepresented groups and women.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.

工程研究中心竞赛的计划赠款是在ERC计划中作为试点招标进行的。 在整个ERC竞争中，不需要计划赠款，但旨在在团队之间建立能力，以计划收敛的中心规模的工程研究。工程研究中心（ERC）对设计人员的制造可访问性（需求）的愿景为每个设计师提供了无缝和直观地制造任何产品的潜力：1）专业知识或背景，2）与制造公司的联系，以及与制造公司的联系，3）3）产品量（从其中一个到数百万）。这一愿景将通过在现有制造生态系统中打破“不对称”并建立一个新的以云为中心的平台来实现这种愿景，设计人员的想法和需求可以实时与制造商的能力和能力和能力相匹配。这种ERC愿景的实现将使制造业民主化，以便包括外行在内的所有能力的设计师，都将有权将他们的想法视为有用的产品。有兴趣的各方将能够从事可以帮助我们不断发展的社会需求的制造活动。该框架与中小型企业合作，还将有助于提高制造产出并支持我们未来劳动力的工程教育。与努力相关的融合研究和集体人才也将用于探索和为代表性不足的群体和妇女创造包容性环境。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来评估的评估值得支持的。