Engineering Faculty Internship: Concurrent Design and Evaluation of a Family of Material Handling Containers

这次教师实习的目标是开发更有用和更高效的容器，用于解决与在美国和世界各地运送大量邮件相关的应用研究问题。研究活动包括集装箱设计问题和广泛的集装箱运输问题。长期目标是开发一系列兼容的容器，以在不同的环境条件下处理各种不同类型的邮件。这项研究影响了许多适用于分销和制造运营的物料处理问题。

The objective of this faculty internship is to develop more useful and efficient containers for the applied research problems associated with the movement of huge volumes of mail across the United States and around the world. Research activities include container design issues and a wide array of containerization problems. The long-term goal is the development of a family of compatible containers to handle a wide variety of different types of mail under various environmental conditions. This research impacts numerous material handling issues with applicability to distribution and manufacturing operations in general.