Community of Practice for Environmentally Benign Design and Manufacturing

该奖项将为美国境内的环境友好设计和制造研究和教育社区创建一套传播工具，并与可持续产品开发的全球活动相关联。其目标是促进一个共享的环境，保持并积极联系工业界，学术界和国家实验室参与者在这一不断增长的领域。计划完成五项任务，包括为所有EBDM研究人员和教育工作者建立基于网络的讨论服务，主持公开论坛，主题由最近举办国际会议和研讨会的组织委员会选定，这些活动的更广泛影响包括有可能将全球视角与区域活动结合起来，平衡材料使用研究与工业产品生命周期管理，并为新兴的软件工具和管理原则创造了一条途径，以便在广泛的应用程序中进行测试。PI已经成功地证明了他的团队通过以前的NSF资助促进，管理和传播新领域研究的能力。这项活动将帮助研究人员开展他们的进步，为他们提供一个支持性的环境，在其中网络发布，讨论和合作。创建和管理这样一个网络超出了典型研究赠款的范围。

This award will create a set of dissemination tools for the Environmentally Benign Design and Manufacturing research and education community, within the US and accessible and linked to the global activities in Sustainable Product Development. The objective is to promote a sharing environment, maintained and actively linking industry, academia, and national lab participants in this growing area.Five tasks are planned to accomplished this, including setting up a web-based discussion service for all EBDM researchers and educators, moderating open forums on topics selected by an organizing committee of those who have recently held international conferences and workshops, and a library of best practices, focusing on solutions for industrial implementation or educational modules.The broader impacts of these activities include the potential for blending global perspectives in conjunction with regional activities, balancing materials use research with industrial product life cycle management, and creating an avenue for emerging software tools and management principles to be readily tested against a broad set of applications. The PI has successfully demonstrated the ability of his group to facilitate, manage, and disseminate research in new fields through previous NSF funding. This activity will assist researchers in carrying out their advancements, providing them with a supportive environment within which to web-publish, discuss, and collaborate. The creation and management of such a network is beyond the scope of typical research grants.