Presidential Young Investigator Award: Design for Injection Molding

生命周期工程设计不仅涉及产品的功能需求，还涉及其生命周期价值，如可制造性、可维护性、可靠性和可回收性。目标是建立一个系统的方法，在设计的早期阶段最大化用户的生命周期价值和最小化成本。这项研究将允许广泛和基本的技术和方法的长期发展，以支持生命周期设计。这些方法和技术将通过工业项目提供的实例得到发展/验证。

Life-cycle engineering design addresses not only the functional requirement of a product, but its life-cycle values such as manufacturability, serviceability, reliability, and recyclability. The goal is to establish a systematic methodology to maximize the users' life-cycle values and minimize cost at the early stages of design. This research will allow a long range development of broad and fundamental techniques and methods to support life-cycle design. These methods and techniques will be developed/verified through examples provided by industry projects.