Collaboration Reserach: Center for e-Design: IT-Enabled Design and Realization of Engineered Products and Systems

位于阿默斯特的马萨诸塞州大学和匹兹堡大学正在联合计划建立一个NSF工业/大学合作研究中心（I/UCRC），用于工程产品和系统的电子设计和实现。 该中心的使命是作为一个卓越的中心，在信息技术支持的设计和实现离散制造产品的设想，其中信息是企业的生命线和协作是标志，无缝集成设计，开发，测试，制造和服务的产品在世界各地。拟议的中心，融合了专业知识和资源，从已经成功的电子产品设计中心&匹兹堡大学和位于阿默斯特的马萨诸塞州大学制造生产力中心的实现是一项共同努力，以实现使能技术开发的协同作用，以支持新的项目开发范式。 拟议的I/UCRC将利用每所大学互补工程学科、基础设施和经验的现有人才教师。

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the University of Pittsburgh are jointly planning to establish an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for e-Design and Realization of Engineered Products and Systems. The Center's mission is to serve as a center of excellence in IT enabled design and realization of discrete manufactured products by envisioning where information is the lifeblood of an enterprise and collaboration is the hallmark that seamlessly integrates design, development, testing, manufacturing and servicing of products around the world.The proposed Center, a fusion of expertise and resources from the already successful Center for e-Product Design & Realization at the University of Pittsburgh and the Center for Manufacturing Productivity at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is a joint effort to achieve synergy in the development of the enabling technologies to support the new project development paradigm. The proposed I/UCRC would leverage the existing talent faculty from complementary engineering disciplines, infrastructure and experience of each university.