Open Workshop: Decision-Based Design

该奖项为继续举办基于决策的设计公开研讨会提供资金。 讲习班将通过一系列面对面的会议进行，并在整个两年的延续期内通过电子和互联网技术在所有有关各方之间不断进行互动。 具体地说，讲习班将包括继续为讲习班的举办建立一个网站。 讲习班的一个主要组成部分将是持续、公开地发展和传播讲习班讨论和活动的哲学、理论和实践成果。 该研讨会将继续集中在针对工程设计理论的发展的研究工作的多样性的基础上，新兴的概念，工程设计是一个决策过程，服从的工具和理论，已在决策理论领域的发展。 讲习班的网址将保持不变：www.eng.buffalo.edu/Research/DBD。如果成功的话，这个研讨会将为工程设计的研究和教育提供一个新的方向。 新的理论概念应该会带来工程设计方法，从而能够设计出更好的产品，即具有更大市场吸引力、成本更低、对环境影响更小并且对客户更友好的产品。 此外，这些概念可能会导致全新的方法来工程教育，重点放在工程设计作为一个决策过程。

This award provides funding for the continued conduct of an open workshop on decision-based design. The workshop will be conducted via a series of face-to-face meetings, and with continuing interaction between all interested parties via electronic and Internet technologies throughout the two-year continuation period. Specifically, the workshop will include the continuation of a web site for conduct of the workshop. A primary component of the workshop will be the continual, open development and dissemination of the philosophical, theoretical and practical results of the workshop discussions and activities. The workshop will continue to concentrate on a diversity of research efforts directed at the development of a theory of engineering design based on the emerging notion that engineering design is a decision making process amenable to the tools and theories that have developed in the field of decision theory. The workshop web site address will remain: www.eng.buffalo.edu/Research/DBD. If successful, this workshop will provide a new direction for research and education in engineering design. New theoretical concepts should lead to approaches to engineering design that will enable the design of better products, products that have greater market appeal, cost less, have lower environmental impact, and that are more friendly for customers. Further, these concepts are likely to lead to entirely new approaches to engineering education, with a strong focus on engineering design as a decision making process.