Engineering Design in 2030: A Strategic Planning Workshop; March 26-29, 2004; Arizona

在过去的二十年里，我们看到了商业全球化的发展，工程、制造业和信息技术工作从美国外流。现在，创新技术、产品和服务，为我们国家经济的引擎提供新的燃料，比以往任何时候都更加重要。计划举办一个讲习班，以确定如何在这种不断变化的环境中通过研究来最好地满足工程设计方面的工业和教育需要。该奖项为2004年3月26日至29日在亚利桑那州北部/中部（菲尼克斯/斯科茨代尔地区）举行的研讨会提供支持。研讨会的目标是：a)回顾过去25年来的设计理论研究活动及其对产品设计和工程教育的影响；b)预测可能对未来产品开发产生深远影响的社会、商业和环境因素的技术发展和变化；c)根据经验教训和对产品开发全球化的期望，制定工程设计研究的战略计划。为期两天半的研讨会将由一个指导委员会组织，该委员会代表了专注于产品实现的广泛工程设计界。潜在的与会者将提交立场文件，并将根据其对讲习班的一个或多个目标作出贡献的潜力选出40-45名受邀者。这是适当的，以确保许多不同的观点和研究线程被表示为工程设计研究和教育的未来方向进行了讨论。讲习班的成果将刊登在一个网站上和一张CD上，供公众传播。十年前举行的上一次研讨会产生了一份实质性报告，向NSF和当时的社区提供了关键建议。预计本次研讨会也将取得类似成果。然而，这一次，社会面临的挑战不仅是衡量我们现在的水平和未来的迫切需要，而且要有远见地展望2030年的地平线。

The last two decades have seen increased globalization of commerce and flight of engineering, manufacturing, and IT jobs from the U.S. It is more critical now than ever to innovate technologies, products and services that provide new fuel to the engines of our national economy. A workshop is planned to determine how to best meet industry and educational needs in engineering design through research in this changing environment. This award provides support for a workshop to be held March 26-29, 2004 in North/Central Arizona (Phoenix/Scottsdale locale). The objectives of the workshop are a) to review the past 25 years activities in research in design theory and its impact on product design and engineering education to date, b) to forecast technological developments and changes in social, business, and environmental factors that may have profound effects on future product development, and c) to formulate a strategic plan for engineering design research based upon lessons learned and expectations of the globalization of product development. The 2-1/2 day workshop will be organized by a Steering Committee that represents the broad engineering design community focused on product realization. Potential participants will submit position papers and 40-45 invitees will be selected based upon their potential to contribute to one or more of the objectives of the workshop. This is appropriate to assure that the many different perspectives and threads of research are represented as the future directions for engineering design research and education are discussed.The results of the workshop will be published on a website and on a CD for public dissemination. The previous workshop, held a decade ago, produced a substantive report that provided key recommendations to NSF and the community at that time. It is expected that similar outcomes will be realized from this workshop. This time, however, the community is being challenged to not only benchmark where we are now and immediate future needs, but to look out to the 2030 horizon with vision.