Workshop: Design of Engineered Complex Systems

这项奖励将为2009年9月在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行的为期两天的工程复杂系统设计研讨会提供资金。研讨会的重点将是工程复杂系统的概念设计方法。当今许多最具挑战性的工程设计问题都涉及复杂的工程系统。一个特别具有挑战性的研究领域是概念设计，即当系统的主要方面只被模糊地指定时，以及在数学描述难以捉摸的情况下，做出设计决策。预计研讨会将有约100人参加，分别来自工业界和学术界。演讲者将是与工程复杂系统相关的多个学科的专家。如果成功，研讨会将确定这一具有挑战性和相对未探索的研究领域的有前途的研究方向。因为工程化的复杂系统出现在许多领域(能源生产、运输、气候建模、纳米技术等)。在大量的应用中有可能产生重大的社会影响。研讨会上确定的想法和方向有可能影响各种基础研究领域(优化、动力系统、控制系统)以及上述应用领域的研究(能源等)。

This award will provide funding for a two-day workshop on the Design of Engineered Complex Systems, to be held in Arlington, VA, in September 2009. The workshop will focus on methodologies for the conceptual design of engineered complex systems. Many of the most challenging engineering design problems today involve engineered complex systems. An especially challenging research area is conceptual design, i.e., making design decisions when major aspects of the system are only vaguely specified, and where mathematical descriptions are elusive. It is anticipated that the workshop will involve about 100 participants, split between industry and academia. The speakers will be experts in a variety of disciplines related to engineered complex systems.If successful, the workshop will identify promising research directions in this challenging and relatively unexplored research area. Because of the many areas in which engineered complex systems arise (energy production, transportation, climate modeling, nanotechnology, etc.) there is the potential for significant societal impact in a vast number of applications. The ideas and directions identified at the workshop have the potential to influence a variety of fundamental research areas (optimization, dynamic systems, control systems) as well as influence research in the application areas mentioned above (energy, etc.).