Workshop: Designing Systems to Address Global Challenges; Corvallis, Oregon; April 1-4, 2017

该研讨会汇集了工程设计和系统工程领域的教育工作者和研究人员，以评估这些领域的最新水平，目的是应对影响人类、我们的地球和经济的全球、现实世界的挑战。研讨会与会者将共同努力，为未来的研究确定有前途的方向，利用这两个领域之间的协同效应，并加强从业者的设计和创新能力。此外，目前从可持续发展计划和系统科学计划(工程和系统设计；系统科学)获得资助的NSF将能够展示海报解释他们的工作，并从他们的同事和计划主任那里获得反馈。与会者将确定并讨论过去对教育和实践产生重大影响的贡献。并讨论它们的适用范围、它们的局限性，以及需要做些什么来加强它们未来的潜力和影响。初级教员将有机会进行“电梯推介”，以帮助他们与工程设计和系统工程界的资深研究人员建立联系。工作坊的主要目的是让工程设计和系统工程界交流意见和找到协同效应。研讨会将汇集约150名研究人员，并将他们分成10人一小组，讨论三个具体主题。讲习班将对工程设计和系统工程方面进行的研究产生重大影响，因为设计应对全球挑战的系统面临独特的挑战和机遇。这样的系统要求设计者在这样的环境中工作：被“设计”的构件不再在他们的控制之下，而是通过多个/许多利益相关者之间的交互而演变，从而有效地导致复杂的适应性系统。这种独特的背景将对设计方法的选择和特征产生影响，因为人们需要担心如何影响其他利益相关者，以便他们做出总体上导致理想结果的选择，而不是对人工制品做出决定。为了达到这一目标，研讨会将就三个主题展开讨论：(1)什么是最大和独特的研究挑战和障碍？(2)什么是好的研究和好的研究方法？(3)在工程设计和系统工程社区之间开发协同方法的差距和独特的机会是什么？

This workshop brings together educators and researchers in the fields of Engineering Design and Systems Engineering to assess the state of the art in these fields with the objective of addressing global, real-world challenges that impact people, our planet, and the economy. The workshop attendees will work together to identify promising directions for future research, exploit the synergies between the two fields, and strengthen the design and innovation capabilities of practitioners. Additionally, current NSF grantees from both ESD and SYS programs (Engineering and Systems Design; Systems Science) will be able to present posters explaining their work and get feedback from their colleagues and the program director. Participants will identify and discuss past contributions that have had a strong impact on education and practice. and discuss their domains of applicability, their limitations, and what needs to be done to strengthen their future potential and impact. Junior faculty will be given an opportunity to do 'elevator pitches' to help them network with established researchers in the Engineering Design and Systems Engineering communities.The main objective of the workshop is to enable the engineering design and systems engineering communities to exchange ideas and find synergies. The workshop will bring together about 150 researchers and divide them in small groups of ten to discuss three specific topics. The workshop will have significant impact on the research conducted in engineering design and systems engineering because of the unique challenges and opportunities of designing systems that address global challenges. Such systems require designers to work in a context in which the artifact being "designed" is no longer under their control, but rather evolves through interactions between multiple/many stakeholders, effectively resulting in complex adaptive systems. This unique context will have an impact on the choice and characteristics of design methods because, rather than making decisions about the artifact, one would need to worry about how to influence other stakeholders so that they make choices that as a whole lead to desirable outcomes. To address this objective, the workshop will conduct discussions on three topics: (1) What are the greatest and unique research challenges and roadblocks? (2) What constitutes good research & good research methods? (3) What are the gaps and unique opportunities for developing synergistic methods between engineering design and systems engineering communities?