I/UCRC: IT-Enabled Design and Realization of Engineered Products and Systems

俄勒冈州立大学（OSU）将成为IUCRC电子设计中心的正式成员。现有的NSF电子设计中心的使命和愿景是研究和开发支持实现可用于开发新工程产品和系统的新设计范式的方法和工具。这种新模式允许设计和产品实现在协作电子设计环境中由客户驱动，该环境支持透明分析，以及虚拟仿真和原型设计。这种新的设计范式包含了对正在开发的产品或系统的整个生命周期的考虑。该中心研究和开发了许多使能技术，以支持拟议的电子设计范式。俄勒冈州立大学的教师和学生研究人员在与现有电子设计中心的使命和愿景协同的领域工作。该团队是跨学科的，包括来自七个学院和部门以及几所大学学院和研究所的24名研究人员。俄勒冈州立大学团队的研究活动将特别加强中心在过程、产品和复杂系统设计、分析和优化方面的努力。俄勒冈州立大学团队在中心内需要满足的具体需求集中在以下几个方面：1)系统设计分析和优化；2)决策分析；3)计算设计与创新。俄勒冈州立大学的加入加强了电子设计中心及其作为重要国家资源的作用，能够产生以下结果：1)包含确保工程产品和/或系统设计中卓越新范式发展所需的多学科观点；2)实现概念建模工具，旨在减少设计周期时间，并确保最大限度地实现供人类使用的设计目标；3)实现经济和供应链设计优化的环境；4)建立临界质量的专业知识，专注于开发电子设计建模和仿真软件平台和虚拟原型工具，以及实现基于仿真的获取策略。拟议的努力将对七个学院和部门的研究生和本科生的成功发展和准备作出重大贡献。这项研究成果将被整合到教育课程中，以丰富学生在设计、建模和仿真、决策分析、快速原型、制造和基于仿真的获取课程中的学习经验。与电子设计中心相关的学生将获得职业发展机会，包括实验室和实地研究，出席跨学科会议和研讨会，设计研讨会系列，参与跨学科活动和期刊出版，以及在研究道德行为方面的培训。俄勒冈州立大学加入该中心有助于该中心的多样性。其中一个共同项目负责人和超过25%的参与教师是女性，在工程领域的代表性通常不足。PI和其他俄勒冈州立大学教员将强调女性和少数民族研究生和本科生的参与。研究和教育成果将与工业界分享，中心将致力于技术转让。

Oregon State University (OSU) will be joining the Center for e-Design IUCRC as a full university member research site. The mission and vision of the existing NSF Center for e-Design is to research and develop methods and tools that support the realization of a new design paradigm that can be used to develop new engineered products and systems. This new paradigm allows design and product realization to be customer driven in a collaborative e-design environment that supports transparent analysis, as well as virtual simulation and prototyping. This new design paradigm encompasses consideration of the entire life cycle of the product or system under development. The Center researches and develops a number of enabling technologies to support the proposed e-design paradigm. OSU has faculty and student researchers working in areas that are synergistic with the mission and vision of the existing Center for e-Design. The team is interdisciplinary, including 24 researchers from seven schools and departments across and several university colleges and institutes. Research activities of the OSU team will especially strengthen the Centers efforts in the area of process, product, and complex system design, analysis, and optimization. The specific needs within the Center to be met by the OSU team are focused in the following areas: 1) System Design Analysis and Optimization, 2) Decision Analysis; 3) Computational Design and Innovation. The addition of OSU strengthens the Center for e-Design and its role as a significant national resource capable of the following results: 1) inclusion of a multi-disciplinary viewpoint needed to ensure the development of a new paradigm of excellence in the design of engineered products and/or systems; 2) realization of conceptual modeling tools aimed at reducing design cycle time and ensuring maximum achievement of design goals for human use; 3) realization of an environment for economic and supply chain design optimization; 4) establishment of a critical mass of expertise focused on the development of an e-Design modeling and simulation software platform and virtual prototyping tools, as well as strategies for achieving simulation based acquisition.The proposed effort will contribute significantly to the successful development and preparation of graduate and undergraduate students across seven schools and departments. Results of this research effort will be integrated into the educational curriculum to enrich the student learning experiences in design, modeling and simulation, decision analysis, rapid prototyping, manufacturing, and simulation based acquisition courses. Students associated with the Center for e-Design will receive career development opportunities, to include laboratory and field studies, attendance and presentations at interdisciplinary conferences and workshops, a design colloquium series, participation in interdisciplinary activities and journal publications, as well as training in the ethical conduct of research. The addition of OSU to the Center contributes to the diversity of the Center. One the co-PIs as well as over 25% of the participating faculty are women, typically underrepresented in engineering. The PI and other OSU faculty will emphasize involvement of women and minority graduate and undergraduate students. Research and educational findings will be shared with the industry and the center will work towards the technology transfer.