Decision Based Environmentally Conscious Design

该项目的目标是开发一种新的规范的设计决策方法，特别是为克服与环境意识设计相关的认知偏见而量身定制的方法。具体地说，将开发决策分析程序来指导具有成本效益的产品开发过程。伊利诺斯大学正在开发一项新技术，用于从气流中捕获和回收有害空气污染物，该技术将被用作试验台。它从空气中捕获稀释的有害空气污染物，并将其转化为纯液体，以便在产生污染物的制造过程中重复使用。采用活性炭纤维布。这项研究的主要好处将是缩短开发时间，从而使产品在市场上更加成功。基于决策的设计方法将被整合到工业赞助的高级设计课程中。通过建立这种跨学科合作，以及为两个不同系（普通工程系和土木与环境工程系）的本科和研究生课程开发新的跨学科课程材料，研究和教育基础设施将得到改善。此外，还将培养两名博士生在这个新的研究领域。这项跨学科研究的结果将在土木和机械工程研究界广泛传播。社会效益还包括一项新技术，该技术不仅可以去除有害的空气污染物，还可以经济有效地回收它们以供再利用。

The objective of this project is to develop a new normative design decision making methodology especially tailored to overcome cognitive biases associated with environmentally conscious design. Specifically, decision analytic procedures will be developed to direct a cost-effective product development process. A new technology being developed at the University of Illinois to capture and recover hazardous air pollutants from gas streams will be used as the test-bed. It captures dilute hazardous air pollutants from air and converts them to a pure liquid for reuse in the manufacturing process that generated the pollutant. Activated carbon fiber cloth is employed. The primary benefit of this research will be a shortened development time resulting in a product that will be more successful in the marketplace. The decision-based design methodology will be integrated into an industrially sponsored senior design course. The research and educational infrastructure will be improved by establishing this interdisciplinary collaboration, and also by development of new interdisciplinary course materials for both undergraduate and graduate courses in two different departments (General Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering). In addition, two Ph.D. students will be trained in this new research area. The results of this interdisciplinary research will be broadly disseminated across both civil and mechanical engineering research communities. Societal benefits also include a new technology that not only removes hazardous air pollutants, but also cost-effectively recovers them for reuse.