Workshop: Uncertainty in Machining; Washington, DC; February 24-26, 2010

该补助金提供资金，用于2010年2月24日至26日在华盛顿举办一个研讨会，讨论和解决机加工和相关制造业务中的不确定性和风险。目前用于支持制造决策的大多数模型都是确定性的。这些模型产生的结果往往只提供了许多制造决策的粗略指导，因此，许多制造决策者严重依赖于经验法则和极端保守主义。这种行为往往会给制造商造成相当大的经济损失。研讨会的主要概念是，对不确定性进行严格的数学处理，以及在不确定性和风险下进行决策，可以为制造业带来巨大的经济利益，并提高制造业的竞争力。本次研讨会的智力价值是基于其目标，即拓宽工程决策的视角，从应用科学和解决问题的角度，不依赖于预测和决策理论的数学，到结合这些严格的数学。虽然本次研讨会专注于制造业，但专注于机械加工，研讨会的结论可能会产生深远的影响，渗透到所有工程实践中。本次研讨会的更广泛影响包括对制造业的经济效益，这将来自于改进的决策。它还将提供一个新的角度对工程决策的一般，最终将影响工程实践和工程教育。

This grant provides funds to conduct a workshop in Washington, DC, February 24-26, 2010, to discuss and address uncertainty and risk in machining and related manufacturing operations. The majority of models currently used to support manufacturing decision making are deterministic. Results produced by these models often provide only rough guidance for many manufacturing decisions and, thus, many manufacturing decision makers rely heavily on rules of thumb and extreme conservatism. Such behavior often results in considerable economic loss to the manufacturer. The key notion underlying this workshop is that rigorous mathematical treatment of uncertainty and decision making under uncertainty and risk can provide substantial economic benefit to the industry and enhance the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector. The Intellectual Merit of this workshop is based on its goal to broaden the perspective on engineering decision making from one of applied science and problem solving, which does not rely on the mathematics of prediction and decision theory, to one that does incorporate these rigorous mathematics.While this workshop is focused on manufacturing with a concentration on machining, the findings of the workshop could have profound effects that permeate all of engineering practice. The Broader Impact of this workshop includes the economic benefit to the manufacturing sector, which will come about from improved decision making. It will also provide a new perspective on engineering decision making in general that will eventually influence both engineering practice and engineering education.