U.S.-China Cooperative Research: Cooperative Geometric Modeling

小行星9722728 该奖项支持工程设计几何建模的三年计划。该项目是肯塔基州大学和清华大学的合作项目，旨在推进几何建模的最新技术，通过参与研究项目为美国学生提供在中国的经验，并通过万维网改进远程合作方法。 该提案为DDM 9400823增加了国际层面。 几何设计和建模是计算机辅助设计的一个主要研究和发展领域。 汽车、航空航天和造船工业在很大程度上依赖于该领域开发的许多技术的应用。 然而，工程设计的几何建模是一个困难的领域，许多悬而未决的问题仍然抑制了计算机在工程设计中的使用。 对新的计算和可视化技术的研究旨在促进进一步的建模和设计。 该项目建议开发和提供支持这些方法的CAD/CAM软件系统。 这就需要为面向对象的几何建模工具包的许多组件开发网络CAD/CAM接口和协作设计范例。这些将作为独立于平台的应用程序来实现，可以从网络上的任何地方访问。 项目人员将包括来自清华大学计算机辅助设计中心的教师级科学家，该中心是世界上最大的几何建模研究团队之一。 美国的参与者包括加州大学伯克利分校和肯塔基州大学的教师。 每年将有两名来自肯塔基州大学的本科生参加，他们将从计算机科学和工程领域代表性不足的群体中选出。 学生将全面参与研究，包括对中国北京清华大学的研究访问。 中方的支持由国家自然科学基金提供。 该项目得到了《中美基础科学合作议定书》的支持。

9722728 Cheng This award supports a three-year program in geometric modeling for engineering design. A cooperative project between the University of Kentucky and Tsinghua University, the program seeks to advance the state of the art in geometric modeling, give U.S. students experience in China through participation in the research project, and improve methods for collaboration remotely via the world wide web. The proposal adds an international dimension to DDM 9400823. Geometric design and modeling is a major research and development area in computer aided design. The automobile, aerospace, and shipbuilding industries rely heavily on applications of many techniques developed in this area. Geometric modeling for engineering design, however, is a difficult field and many unanswered question remain that inhibit use of computers in engineering design. Research on new computational and visualization techniques seeks to facilitate further modeling and design. This project proposes to develop and deliver CAD/CAM software systems which support such methodologies. This requires development of network CAD/CAM interfaces and collaborative design paradigms for a number of components of an object- oriented geometric modeling tool kit. These will be implemented as platform-independent applications which can be accessed from anywhere over the Web. Project personnel will include faculty level scientists from Tsinghua University's Computer Aided Design Center which is one of the largest geometric modeling research teams in the world. US participants include faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Kentucky. Two undergraduate students from the University of Kentucky will participate each year, and will be chosen from groups underrepresented in computer science and engineering fields. The students will participate in the research fully, including in research visits to Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Support on the Chinese side is provided by the National Natural Science Foundation. This project is supported under the US-China Protocol on Cooperation in Basic Sciences.