International Workshop on the Globalization of Engineering Research, Development and Design. To be held in Arlington, VA on April 4-6, 2012

项目名称：工程、研究、开发和设计全球化国际研讨会拟议活动：我们提议举办一次为期两天的研讨会，深入探讨工程、研究、开发和设计的全球化问题。研讨会将邀请业界人士，如企业工程及研发经理，以及学术研究人员，共同探讨工程全球化的新现象。有强有力的证据表明，工程工作和任务正在不同国家之间进行重组和重新分配。然而，这一重大的工程变革却没有？研讨会包括由领先的公司工程经理组成的小组，他们将讨论在特定地区正在完成的特定任务的规模和范围。此外，领先的学术研究人员将介绍有关工程全球化的知识现状。第二天将包括分组会议，更深入地探讨主题，确定我们知识的差距，并为这一重要领域的进一步研究制定和校准议程。智力优势：我们已经达到了美国海外研发投资的水平，接近年度总研究预算的25%。因此，越来越多的公司面临着管理全球工程和研究资源的挑战。然而，我们对公司如何保护知识产权、管理全球技术资源整合以及获取和维护补充资产以确保从这些技术项目投资中获益知之甚少。会议旨在校准这一竞技场的研究议程，并产生具有高潜在影响力的可研究的应用问题。更广泛的影响可验证：研讨会的主要成果是编辑的会议记录和网站。研讨会召集人将完成一份总结研讨会结果的文件，包括研讨会产生的工程全球化研究议程。除了会议记录和论文之外，我们还将寻求在适当的渠道为最好的会议论文和会议后可能产生的任何新论文提供特别期刊的想法。这份期刊将是从业人员阅读的学术出版物。调查结果将广泛传播给学术界、行业从业者和政策制定者。

Project Title: International Workshop on the Globalization of Engineering, Research, Development and DesignProposed Activities:We propose to hold a two-day workshop exploring, in-depth, the globalization of engineering, research, development and design. The workshop will bring industry practitioners, such as corporate engineering and R&D managers, together with academic researchers to explore the emerging phenomenon of engineering globalization. There is strong evidence of a trend that engineering work and tasks are being restructured and reallocated across different countries. Yet this significant transformation of engineering hasn?t been explored systematically.The workshop includes panels of leading corporate engineering managers who will discuss the scale and scope of specific tasks being done in particular geographies. In addition, leading academic researchers will present the current state of knowledge about engineering globalization. The second day will include breakout sessions exploring topics in more depth, identifying the gaps in our knowledge, and generating and calibrating an agenda for further research in this important field.Intellectual Merits:We have reached a level of U.S. R&D investment overseas which approaches 25% of the total annual research budget. As a consequence the challenge of managing global engineering and research resources is a being faced by a growing number of companies. Yet, we know very little about how companies protect intellectual property, manage global technical integration of resources and acquire and maintain complementary assets to ensure appropriation of benefits from these investments in technical projects. The conference aims to calibrate the research agenda in this arena and generate researchable, applied questions with high potential impact.Broader Impacts & Deliverables:The primary deliverable from the workshop is an edited proceedings and website. The workshop conveners will complete a paper summarizing the findings of the workshop including the workshop generated research agenda for engineering globalization. In addition to the proceedings and paper, we will pursue the idea of a call for a special journal issue in an appropriate outlet for the best conference papers and any new papers that might be generated after the conference. The journal would be a scholarly publication that practitioners read. The findings will be widely disseminated to academics, industry practitioners, and policymakers.