Workshop and Grantees Meeting: Positioning Engineering Design and Systems Engineering Research for Sustained Societal Impact; West Lafayette, Indiana; October 7-8, 2019

本次研讨会的目的是开发和阐明工程设计和系统工程（EDSE）中的研究问题和方法，以在新兴的工作场所和社会中产生高影响。最近，在自动化、机器学习、人工智能和增强现实方面取得了巨大的技术进步。这些技术进步正在改变工程设计师工作的环境，改变他们从事的活动，改变他们设计的产品，改变他们获取的信息，改变他们与机器互动和相互交流的方式。新兴技术不仅使新型产品和系统成为可能，而且也使设计它们的新方法成为可能。研讨会将提供一个论坛，促进领先专家之间的对话，讨论EDSE研究如何利用新的机遇，以及这些新兴变化带来的关键研究挑战。对话将使来自EDSE研究界、基础科学和应用领域的不同观点融合在一起。本次研讨会将以之前研讨会的成果为基础，并将重点关注影响未来工程师工作场所的新兴趋势的研究意义，以及新产品和系统将被设计的社会背景。研讨会的预期成果包括确定如何加强经济社会发展计划资助研究的影响，确定具有高潜在影响的新基础研究机会，以及建立高质量的研究标准，以最大限度地发挥个人和集体的影响。这些成果将通过研讨会报告、在线门户网站和期刊文章进行传播。通过各种传播途径，该研讨会将促进来自美国各地大学的教师研究人员的教学和培训，这可以影响他们的研究努力，教学活动，并使他们具有更大的社会影响力。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The objective of this workshop is to develop and articulate research issues and methodologies in engineering design and systems engineering (EDSE) for high impact in the emerging workplace and society. Recently, there has been tremendous technological progress in automation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality. These technological advances are changing the environment in which engineering designers work, the kinds of activities they perform, the kinds of products they design, the information they have access to, and the way in which they interact with machines, and communicate with each other. Emerging technologies are not only enabling new types of products and systems, but also new ways of designing them. The workshop will provide a forum to foster dialog among leading experts on how EDSE research can leverage the new opportunities and what the critical research challenges are created by these emerging changes. The dialog will enable the convergence of diverse perspectives from the EDSE research community, the foundational sciences, and application domains. The workshop will build on the outcomes of prior workshops, and will focus on the research implications of emerging trends impacting the workplace of future engineers and the societal context for which new products and systems will be designed. Expected outcomes of the workshop include the identification of ways for enhancing the impact of the EDSE-funded research, the determination of new basic research opportunities with high potential impact, and the establishment of high quality research standards to maximize individual and collective impact. These outcomes will be disseminated through a workshop report, an online web-based portal, and journal articles. Through various avenues of dissemination, this workshop will promote the teaching and training of faculty researchers from universities across the United States, which can impact their research endeavors, teaching activities, and position them for greater societal impact.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.