Workshop on Science and Technologies for Manufacturing Machines and Processes, Albuequerque, New Mexico, Fall 2004

这笔赠款为咨询研讨会的开展提供资金，以协助制定制造机器和设备研究计划的研究议程。研讨会的目标是识别来自不同领域的现有知识，这些知识可以有效地集成到制造机器的技术中。研讨会将汇集大约35名来自广泛学科的参与者，包括材料科学、经济学、数学和其他学科。会议将于2004年秋季在新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基的桑迪亚国家实验室举行。研讨会参与者将确定制造机器的关键需求，然后制定计划，整合其他领域的知识以满足这些需求。研讨会的结果将是一个计划，增加研究人员之间的合作，在制造机械和其他学科领域。它应该促进该领域的更多创新研究，最终提高制造业许多领域的竞争力。

This grant provides funds for the conduct of an advisory workshop to assist in setting a research agenda for the Manufacturing Machines and Equipment research program. The objective of the workshop is to identify extant knowledge from disparate fields that can be integrated beneficially into the technology of manufacturing machines. The workshop will bring together about 35 participants from a wide range of disciplines, including materials science, economics, mathematics and others. It will be held in the fall of 2004, hosted at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The workshop participants will identify critical needs of manufacturing machines, and then develop plans for the integration of knowledge from other fields toward meeting these needs.The outcome of the workshop will be a plan for increased collaboration between researchers in the field of manufacturing machines and other disciplines. It should foster more innovative research in the field, resulting ultimately in improved competitiveness across many areas of manufacturing.