CAREER: Trend-Mining Design - Foundations for Modeling the Mutual Influence between Pre-Life Design and End-of-Life Recovery of a Sustainable Product Portfolio

该学院早期职业发展（CAREER）奖的研究目标是为复杂的可持续产品组合的生命前设计和生命结束恢复之间的相互影响建模提供基础。这一目标将通过以下方式实现：1）为产品组合建立寿命前设计和寿命终了恢复之间的相互联系; 2）表征不断变化的、可捕获设计和恢复过程中动态趋势的大规模偏好/使用/恢复数据;以及3）最佳平台化（即，如果成功，其结果将确保可持续的产品组合设计将以更快的速度实现，并具有经济合理性，以及环境管理与监管合规性。其结果还将提供一种新的商业模式（绿色和可持续），迫使公司关闭产品设计和回收的循环。由于其潜在的盈利能力，这将通过使恢复成为商业模式的一部分来实现，而不是外包或忽视它，将与产品设计/制造，系统建模和应用以及软件和计算方面的合作伙伴一起实现工业影响。教育影响将在工程设计的问题为基础的学习，教育研究生，辅导少数民族学生实现。推广工作将在地方和国家一级实现通过一个新的，酷设计课后计划，与当地小学合作。

The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award is to provide foundations for modeling the mutual influence between pre-life design and end-of-life recovery of complex, sustainable product portfolios. This objective will be achieved by: 1) establishing the mutual link between pre-life design and end-of-life recovery for a portfolio of products; 2) characterizing the evolving, massive-scale preference/usage/recovery data that can capture dynamic trend in the design and recovery process; and 3) optimal platforming (i.e., component sharing decision making) for pre-life portfolio design and end-of-life recovery in a simultaneous manner.If successful, the results will ensure that sustainable product portfolio design will be realized at a much faster pace with economic justification, as well as environmental stewardship with regulatory compliance. The outcome will also provide a new business model (green and sustainable) whereby a company is compelled to close the loop of product design and recovery. This will be achieved by making recovery a part of the business model, due to its potential profitability, rather than outsourcing or ignoring it. Industrial impact will be realized with partners in product design/manufacturing, systems modeling and applications, and software and computing. Educational impact will be realized in problem-based learning of engineering design, educating graduate students, and mentoring minority students. Outreach effort will be realized at the local and national levels via a new, Cool Design after school program, in partnership with a local elementary school.