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

建议书编号：CBET-0742677；CBET-0742693；CBET-0742698；CBET-0742791主要研究员：斯通，罗伯特；布莱恩特·阿诺德，Cari R.；Tumer，Irem Y.；Campbell，Matthew I.隶属：密苏里大学罗拉大学；宾夕法尼亚州立大学大学园区；俄勒冈州立大学；德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校建议标题：协作研究：发声-创新概念工程设计的虚拟组织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来综合工程产品和系统的创新概念设计方面的挑战。与允许个人和组织协作开发软件的开源计算机代码的激增类似，创新概念工程设计虚拟组织(Voiced)专注于培养和收集产品信息，以帮助个人、学生和行业创造更好和更具竞争力的产品。这种概念设计方法允许地理上分散的组织借鉴和贡献一组共享的先前设计知识，这些知识支持在满足不同客户需求的情况下对概念备选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、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，如果没有这种共享的知识库，这些配置是无法想象的。最终，该项目将提供快速生成？自动还是手动？替代概念，从而缩短了开发周期。最后，Voiced将为教育工作者创建一个论坛，以分享和交流设计课程材料，改进现有课程，并接受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.