Workshop: Interdisciplinary Frontiers of Designing Engineering Material Systems; College Station, Texas; 18-19 July 2016

长期以来，加速材料的发现和开发一直被认为是解决影响我们健康、经济福祉、环境和国家安全的技术挑战的重要因素。这就是2011年由白宫宣布的材料基因组计划（MGI）的核心动机，以及集成计算材料工程（ICME）的持续努力，该工程已被美国国家科学院认可为加速材料发展的重要因素。然而，MGI和ICME的研究工作往往只是弱定向的，因为他们试图获得具有一般良好性能（例如，提高强度，更轻的重量）或功能（例如，活性材料）的材料，但通常与特定的工程设计项目无关。材料和材料系统的目标导向设计概念具有很大的前景。而不是依靠一个单独的过程来提供理想的材料或材料系统，工程设计师可以直接参与材料和材料系统的开发与他们需要的特定特性。这可以使工程系统具有更高的性能、更低的成本，并且更具可持续性。本次研讨会的目标是为材料和材料系统的工程设计开发和阐明跨学科研究领域的愿景。一个跨学科领域是一个结合和适应两个或多个领域的方法，使他们更适合感兴趣的问题。这与多学科研究相反，在多学科研究中，研究者使用不同学科的观点来研究一个问题。迄今为止，在设计工程材料系统方面最成功和最有影响力的先前研究是从跨学科的角度进行的。通过进一步发展一个致力于理解材料设计问题的连贯的跨学科社区，有机会加速这一领域的研究。本次研讨会将汇集材料和设计研究领域的顶尖专家，以确定推进该领域跨学科研究的方法。参与者将确定跨学科领域的关键知识领域，阐明关键的开放式研究问题，并制定进一步推进该领域的步骤。

The acceleration of materials discovery and development has long been recognized as important for solving technological challenges that impact our health, economic well-being, environment and national security. This is the central motivation for the materials Genome Initiative (MGI), which was announced by the White House in 2011, and ongoing efforts in Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), which has been recognized by the National Academy of Science as being important for accelerated materials development. However, MGI and ICME research efforts tend to be only weakly-directed in the sense that they try to achieve materials with generally good properties (e.g., improved strength, lighter weight) or functionality (e.g., active materials) but often are not connected to a specific engineering design project. The concept of goal-directed design of materials and material systems holds great promise. Rather than relying on a separate process to deliver desirable materials or material systems, engineering designers can engage directly in the development of materials and material systems with the specific characteristics they need. This can lead to engineered systems with higher performance, lower cost, and that are more sustainable. The goal of this workshop is to develop and articulate a vision for an interdisciplinary field of research focused the engineering design of materials and material systems. An interdisciplinary field is one that combines and adapts approaches from two or more fields so they are better suited for a problem of interest. This is in contrast to multidisciplinary research in which investigators pursue a problem using different disciplinary perspectives. To date, the most successful and impactful prior research on designing engineering material systems has been from an interdisciplinary perspective. An opportunity exists to accelerate research in this area by furthering the development of a coherent interdisciplinary community dedicated to understanding materials design problems. This workshop will bring together leading experts in materials and design research to identify ways to advance interdisciplinary research in this area. Participants will identify key knowledge areas for the interdisciplinary field, articulate critical open research questions and formulate steps to further advance the field.