Collaborative Research - NSF Workshop Series: Interdisciplinary Design as an Instructional Discipline

此补助金将资助举办一系列以跨学科设计为教学学科的工作坊，为期12个月。研讨会将在密歇根大学、西北大学举行，并与2009年NSF CMII受助者会议和2009年ASME国际设计工程技术会议一起举行。这些研讨会将讨论通过研究生教育和跨学科设计研究支持新兴设计学科的相关问题。来自工程、建筑、工业设计、视觉艺术、心理学和商业等广泛学科的参与者将被邀请参加。设计是一个跨越许多学科的综合性活动；然而，我们的教育系统往往难以为我们的本科生和研究生提供跨学科的设计经验，也难以认识到设计研究的重要性。最近，新的和创新的跨学科设计研究生课程已经出现，与工程紧密联系，但结构上完全接受和补充其他学科的研究。这些研究生课程有可能影响包括教育和研究在内的设计新学科的发展。跨学科教育是在当今全球经济中扩大和保持美国竞争优势的核心因素。将设计发展成为一门被广泛认可和实践的教学学科，对于保持新产品和新系统创新的领导地位至关重要。这一系列研讨会将汇集工程设计研究和教育领域的专家以及更大的设计界，探讨跨学科设计研究生课程的挑战、成功、实践和未来方向，以深入了解如何构建、发展和维持课程，为学生成功的设计创新做好准备。如果成功，这一系列的研讨会将形成设计教育和研究的新方法的基础，在目前的学术界结构中充分拥抱跨学科合作。

This grant provides funding to conduct a series of workshops on Interdisciplinary Design as an Instructional Discipline to be held over a 12 month period. Workshops will be held at the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, and in conjunction with the 2009 NSF CMII Grantees Conference and the 2009 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences. These workshops will address issues related to supporting the emerging discipline of design through graduate education and interdisciplinary design research. Participants from a broad range of disciplines, including engineering, architecture, industrial design, visual arts, psychology, and business, among others, will be invited to attend. Design is an integrative activity that spans many disciplines; however, our educational system often struggles to provide interdisciplinary design experiences for our undergraduate and graduate students and to recognize the significance of design research. Recently, new and innovative interdisciplinary graduate programs in design have arisen with strong ties to engineering yet structured to fully embrace and complement research from other disciplines. These graduate programs have the potential to influence the development of a new discipline of design that includes both education and research. Interdisciplinary education is a central factor in expanding and sustaining an American competitive advantage in today's global economy. Developing design as a broadly recognized and practiced instructional discipline is essential for maintaining leadership in the innovation of new products and systems. This series of workshops will bring together experts in the field of engineering design research and education and the larger design community to explore the challenges, successes, practices and future directions of interdisciplinary design graduate programs to gain insight into how to construct, grow, and sustain programs that prepare students for successful design innovation. If successful, this series of workshops will form the basis of new approaches to design education and research that fully embraces interdisciplinary collaborations within the current structure of academia.