Workshop: Defining the Opportunities and Challenges for Research in Materials and Manufacturing for Extreme Affordability (RIMMEA); Muncie, Indiana; January 20-21, 2011

该基金将为“材料与制造极端可负担性研究”（RIMMEA）研讨会提供资金，该研讨会将汇集来自世界各地的建筑、设计、工程和科学专家。为期两天的研讨会是由波尔州立大学、美国机械工程师协会（ASME）和IEEE（财务支持）合作举办的，将于2011年1月在印第安纳州的曼西举行。研讨会将重点关注研究机会，从先进制造和物流技术的应用，到提供极其实惠的临时和长期住房解决方案，这些解决方案也植根于文化，以及极其实惠的材料和制造解决方案在救灾和国防中的作用。本课程将探讨防喷器问题，包括架构、工业设计、工程、物流和策略。除了实施讲习班和对参加者的学习进行结果评估外，讲习班还将导致确定采用综合和系统方法最好解决的重要RIMMEA问题；制定优先事项和评估标准，以确定主题的科学成熟度和价值；为进一步发展RIMMEA方案建立一个研究界；以及一份报告，为国家科学基金会为RIMMEA申请额外的国家资源提供依据。该研讨会将促进美国和国际与会者的多样性，影响30多名研究人员，并直接影响BoP的数十亿人。有了美国机械工程师协会、无国界工程师组织、IEEE、OperationUSA和蜜蜂网络等具有全球网络的组织的参与，研讨会的学习成果将得到广泛传播。

The grant provides funding for a workshop on Research in Materials and Manufacturing for Extreme Affordability (RIMMEA) that will bring together experts from architecture, design, engineering and science from around the world. The two-day workshop is a partnership between Ball State University, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and IEEE (financial support), to be hosted in Muncie, Indiana in January 2011. The workshop will focus on research opportunities range from application of advanced manufacturing and logistics technologies to deliver extremely affordable temporary and long term housing solutions that are also culturally rooted to the role of extremely affordable materials and manufacturing solutions for disaster relief and defense. BoP problems spanning architecture, industrial design, engineering, logistics, and strategy will be explored.In addition to implementing the workshop and conducting an outcomes assessment of the learning that occurred among participants, the workshop will lead to the identification of important RIMMEA questions that are best addressed by employing integrated and systems approaches; development of priorities and assessment criteria for determining scientific maturity and merit of the topics; establishment of a research community for the further development of a RIMMEA program; and a report that provides NSF with a basis for requesting additional national resources for RIMMEA. The workshop will promote diversity among US and international attendees, impact more than thirty researchers, and directly impact billions of people at the BoP. With the involvement of organizations with worldwide networks such as ASME, Engineers without Borders, IEEE, OperationUSA, and The Honeybee Network, dissemination of learning from the workshop can be high.