University of Central Florida Research Site of the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) in E-Design

该奖项将中佛罗里达大学作为一个完整的大学研究站点，与匹兹堡大学和马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的工业/大学电子设计合作研究中心：工程产品和系统的IT支持设计和实现。教师的共同研究努力将形成一个联盟，寻求实现以下目标：1)包括多学科的观点，以确保在工程产品和/或系统的设计中开发出卓越的新范例；2)实现概念建模工具，旨在减少设计周期时间，并确保最大限度地实现供人类使用的设计目标；3)实现经济环境和供应链优化设计；4)在电子设计建模和仿真软件平台和虚拟原型工具的开发上建立临界质量的专业知识。

This award joins the University of Central Florida as a full university research site, with the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for e-Design: IT Enabled Design and Realization of Engineered Products and Systems at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The joint research efforts of faculty will form a coalition that seeks to realize the following objectives: 1) inclusion of a multidisciplinary viewpoint needed to ensure the development of a new paradigm of excellence in the design of engineered products and/or systems; 2) realization of conceptual modeling tools aimed at reducing design cycle time and ensuring maximum achievement of design goals for human use; 3) realization of an environment for economic and supply chain optimization design; and 4) establishment of a critical mass of expertise focused on the development of an e-design modeling and simulation software platform and virtual prototyping tools.