US-Egypt Workshop: Intelligent Decision Support Tools for Prognostics and Health Management

这个奖项是为了支持美国-埃及关于？用于预后和健康管理的智能决策支持工具？将于2009年10月在埃及开罗举行。美国的两位研究员Jay Lee和Masoud Ghaffari来自美国辛辛那提大学机械工程系NSF智能维护系统中心（IMS）。埃及组织者穆罕默德·萨利赫博士来自开罗大学计算机与信息学院决策支持系。除了PI和4名博士研究员外，美国研讨会参与者将包括2名初级科学家，3名研究生，3名本科生。来自开罗大学决策支持系的埃及研究生和本科生以及受邀的行业代表也将参加。举办这次讲习班的两个主要目标是：(1)举办一个信息和知识交流的国际论坛，重点是预后和健康管理领域的教育和研究；(2)为智能预测决策支持工具的发展奠定长期战略研究合作基础。这次研讨会的预期成果将是一项全面的计划，包括完成两国学生和研究人员之间的合作所需的步骤。这一合作关系将建立在NSF I/UCRC智能维护系统（IMS） 8年前沿研究和合作历史的基础上。IMS是一个多校区中心，由辛辛那提大学、密歇根大学和密苏里科技大学的三个美国研究基地组成。此外，IMS中心与40多家全球公司建立了合作关系。这种国际合作对两国的研究人员都非常有益，因为它将促进教育、研究和文化知识的交流。

This award is to support a US-Egypt workshop on ?Intelligent Decision Support Tools for Prognostics and Health Management? to be held in Cairo, Egypt in October 2009. The US coPIs, Jay Lee and Masoud Ghaffari, are from the NSF Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS), Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. The Egyptian organizer, Dr. Mohamed Saleh, is from the Department of Decision Support, College of Computers and Information, Cairo University. In addition to the PI and four doctoral researchers, US workshop participants will include 2 junior scientists, 3 graduate students, 3 undergraduate students. Egyptian graduate and undergraduate students from the Decision Support department at Cairo University and invited industry representatives will also participate. The two main goals for holding this workshop are: (1) to conduct an international forum for information and knowledge exchange with focus on education and research in the field of prognostics and health management; (2) to lay the foundation for a long-term strategic research collaboration on the advances of intelligent decision support tools for prognostics. The expected outcome of this workshop will be a comprehensive plan of the steps required to accomplish the collaboration between students and researchers of the two countries. This affiliation will be building on the eight-year history of frontiers research and collaboration at the NSF I/UCRC for Intelligent maintenance systems (IMS) which is a multi-campus center consisting of three US research sites at the University of Cincinnati, University of Michigan, and the Missouri University for Science & Technology. Moreover, the IMS center has partnerships with over 40 global companies. Such international collaboration would be highly beneficial for researchers from both countries as it will facilitate the exchange of educational, research, and cultural knowledge.