A Task Force to Study Operations Research as a Catalyst for Engineering Grand Challenges

在过去的几年里，来自世界各地的一群领先的思想家聚集在一起，确定了工程的一些重大挑战（在NAE的主持下）。这些挑战大致分为可持续性、安全性、人类健康和生活乐趣等主题，确定了几个有可能重塑我们生活方式的关键领域。 拟议的工作组的作用是确定新的运筹学（OR）方向，使NAE的大领域利用新的OR知识到他们的研究。从这个意义上说，拟议的努力将确定其他资源方面的挑战，以期成为净减排重大挑战的催化剂。 工作队将召开三次会议。 第一个将侧重于将NAE挑战提炼为OR研究的驱动因素。 鉴于OR的多学科性质，预计OR研究的某些广泛要求将出现在演示文稿和工作组的审议过程中。第二次会议将重点讨论OR挑战的深入陈述，如果OR社区遇到这些挑战，将使NAE挑战取得进展，甚至使OR社区参与寻求工程世界面临的一些更紧迫问题的解决方案。最后，在第三次会议上，来自裁判小组的反馈将被纳入最终报告的编制中，该报告预计将在OR社区中广泛传播，并对塑造未来的研究方向产生广泛影响。

Over the past several years, a group of leading thinkers from around the world have come together to identify some grand challenges for engineering (under the auspices of the NAE). These challenges, broadly classified under the themes of Sustainability, Security, Human Health, and the Joy of Living, identify a few key areas with the potential to reinvent our way of life. The role of the proposed Task Force is to identify new operations research (OR) directions that will enable the NAE Grand Challenge-domains to leverage new OR knowledge into their research. In this sense, the proposed effort will identify OR challenges with an eye towards serving as a catalyst for the NAE Grand Challenges. The Task Force will convene three meetings. The first one will be focused on distilling the NAE challenges into drivers for OR research. Given the multi-disciplinary nature of OR, it is expected that certain broad requirements for OR research will emerge during presentations, and deliberations of the task force. The second meeting will be focused on in-depth statements of OR challenges, which if met by the OR community, will allow the NAE challenges to make progress, and even engage the OR community in the quest for solutions to some of the more pressing problems facing the engineering world. Finally, at a third meeting feedback from a panel of referees will be incorporated into the preparation of a final report that is expected to be widely disseminated in the OR community and have broad impact in shaping future research directions.