Workshop: Interdisciplinary Graduate Design Programs; Arlington, Virginia; 29-30 May 2008

该基金将于2008年5月29日至30日在美国国家科学基金会举办跨学科研究生设计项目研讨会。受邀的参与者将包括来自美国、荷兰、意大利、瑞典和其他几个参与这些独特研究生项目的国家的主要教师和研究人员。来自知名设计公司和企业的业内人士也将参加。本次研讨会将提供一个论坛，设计界可以讨论这些项目的挑战、成功和未来方向，以获得关于如何建设、发展和维持跨学科研究生项目的新见解，为学生成功的设计创新做好准备。与会者还将讨论项目评估的基准指标，同时征求行业对项目改进的反馈。研究结果将通过出版物、网站、在ASEE和ASME会议上的演讲、2008年ASME国际设计工程技术会议的小组会议以及ASME机械设计杂志的特刊广泛传播。该研讨会将加强全国现有和新兴的跨学科研究生设计项目，提高我们的创新产出，增加我们的竞争经济优势。讲习班支持以紧密结合的跨学科研究为基础的研究生教育新模式的出现。跨学科的研究生设计课程不仅跨越了工程系的界限，而且通过与大学的非工程专业（如建筑、商业、艺术与设计、社会和技术）的互利合作，跨越了学院的界限。从创建、管理和维持这些跨学科研究生设计项目中获得的经验教训将通过出版物和基于网络的知识库广泛传播，将为创建其他新颖和高度跨学科的研究生项目提供实质性指导。

This grant provides funding to support a workshop on Interdisciplinary Graduate Design Programs to be held at the National Science Foundation on May 29-30, 2008. The invited participants will consist of key faculty and researchers from the United States, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden and several other countries who are involved in these unique graduate programs. Industry practitioners from well-known design firms and corporations will also participate. This workshop will provide a forum wherein the design community can discuss the challenges, successes, and future directions of these programs to gain new insights into how to construct, grow, and sustain interdisciplinary graduate programs that prepare students for successful design innovation. The participants will also discuss benchmarking metrics for program assessment while soliciting industry feedback on program improvements. The results will be widely disseminated through publications, a web site, presentations at ASEE and ASME conferences, a panel session at the 2008 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, and a special issue of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. The workshop will strengthen existing and emerging interdisciplinary graduate design programs across the country, improving our innovation output and increasing our competitive economic advantage. The workshop supports the emergence of a new model for graduate education which is based on tightly integrated interdisciplinary research. The interdisciplinary graduate design programs not only cross department boundaries within engineering but also span college boundaries through mutually beneficial partnerships with non-engineering programs at the university, e.g. architecture, business, art and design, society and technology. The lessons learned from creating, administering, and sustaining these interdisciplinary graduate design programs, which will be widely disseminated through publications and a web-based repository of knowledge, will provide substantive guidance to inform the creation of other novel and highly interdisciplinary graduate programs.