Collaborative Research: VOICED - A Virtual Organization for Innovative Conceptual Engineering Design

提案号：CBET-0742677；生态旅游- 0742693;生态旅游- 0742698;cbet -0742791首席研究员：Robert Stone；布莱恩特·阿诺德，卡里·R.；m . Y.；合作院校：密苏里大学罗拉分校；宾夕法尼亚州立大学-大学公园；俄勒冈州立大学；该奖项的研究目标是创建一个工程虚拟组织，通过在网络存储库中重用现有设计知识，解决工程产品和系统的创新概念设计的综合挑战。类似于开放源代码计算机代码的扩散，它允许个人和组织协作开发软件，创新概念工程设计的虚拟组织（voice）专注于培育和收集产品信息，以帮助个人、学生和行业创造更好、更有竞争力的产品。这种概念设计方法允许地理上分散的组织从共享的先前设计知识集中提取并做出贡献，这些知识集支持对给定不同客户需求的概念替代方案进行更彻底的调查。如果成功，这项研究的结果将提高我们创造独特的、创新的新产品和工艺的能力。在网络存储库中共享想法和解决方案的能力将导致新的产品和系统配置，如果没有这个共享的知识库，这是无法想象的。最终，该项目将提供快速生成？自动还是手动？备选概念，从而缩短开发周期。最后，voice将为教育工作者创建一个论坛，分享和交流设计课程材料，改进现有课程，并听取行业从业者对设计教育的意见。

Proposal Number: CBET-0742677; CBET-0742693; CBET-0742698; CBET-0742791Principal Investigator: Stone, Robert; Bryant Arnold, Cari R.; Tumer, Irem Y.; Campbell, Matthew I. Affiliation: University of Missouri Rolla; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Oregon State University; University of Texas at AustinProposal Title: Collaborative Research: VOICED - A Virtual Organization for Innovative Conceptual Engineering DesignThe research objective of this award is to create an engineering virtual organization that addresses the challenges of synthesizing innovative conceptual designs of engineered products and systems through the reuse of existing design knowledge in a cyber repository. Analogous to the proliferation of open source computer code, which allows individuals and organizations to collaboratively develop software, the Virtual Organization for Innovative Conceptual Engineering Design (VOICED) is focused on fostering and gathering product information to help individuals, students, and industries create better and more competitive products. This approach to conceptual design allows geographically dispersed organizations to draw from and contribute to a shared set of prior design knowledge that supports a more thorough investigation of concept alternatives given diverse customer requirements. If successful, the results of this research will improve our ability to create unique, innovative new products and processes. The ability to share ideas and solutions in a cyber repository will lead to new product and system configurations that would not be envisioned without this shared knowledge base. Ultimately, the project will provide the capability to quickly generate ? automatically or manually ? alternative concepts, thus shortening the development cycle. Finally, VOICED will create a forum for educators to share and exchange design course material, improve upon existing courses, and receive input from industry practitioners on design education.