Student Design Essay Competition "Challenges in the Design of Complex Systems"; Travel Support to ASME IDETC 2024, ASME IDETC 2025, and ASME IDETC 2026 Conferences

该奖项支持NSF在美国各级科学、数学、工程和技术教育中取得卓越成就的目标，并将为年轻人提供机会，吸引他们从事科学、数学和工程方面的职业，并为他们做好准备。通过学生征文比赛，将选出本科生和研究生参加工程和系统设计方面的高级会议。论文作业要求学生考虑全球竞争力对工程设计实践的影响，特别是在复杂系统的情况下，并阐明他们对工程和系统设计未来的愿景。这个练习促进了工程领域的创新者和研究人员所必需的思维技能。会议经验促进了学生个人的成长，当这些知识在同龄人中分享时，也有助于加强学生所在机构的整体研究质量。该奖项的目的是通过征文比赛和支持参加研究会议的旅行，促进本科生和研究生在工程和系统设计方面的专业发展。第二个目标是鼓励学生深入思考未来20-30年复杂系统的工程设计将会是什么样子。比赛将广泛宣传，鼓励来自各种工程学科的学生参加比赛。他们将在一篇文章中表达他们对竞赛主题的想法，由一组杰出的工程设计研究人员和教育工作者进行评判。通过设计论文比赛的学生将获得旅费。会议将安排海报环节，让学生有机会与研究人员互动，讨论他们对未来复杂系统工程设计的想法。获奖论文将在一个网站上刊登，以便广大读者可以看到。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports the NSF goal to achieve excellence in US Science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education at all levels, and will provide opportunities for young people that will attract them to and prepare them for careers in science, mathematics, and engineering. Through a student essay competition, undergraduate and graduate students will be selected to attend a premier conference in engineering and systems design. The essay assignment challenges students to consider the effect of global competitiveness on engineering design practices, particularly in light of complex systems, and to articulate their vision for the future of engineering and systems design. This exercise promotes the type of thinking skills necessary for innovators and researchers in engineering. The conference experience promotes growth in individual students and can also serve to strengthen the overall research quality of the research at the student's home institution when this knowledge is shared among their peers. The objective of this award is to promote undergraduate and graduate student professional development in engineering and systems design through an essay competition and support for travel to a research conference. A secondary objective is to encourage students to think deeply about what engineering design of complex systems will be like 20-30 years in the future. The competition will be publicized broadly, with students from a variety of engineering disciplines encouraged to compete. They will communicate their thoughts on the competition topic in an essay that will be judged by a distinguished group of engineering design researchers and educators. Travel funds will be provided for students who are selected through the design essay competition. A poster session will be organized at the conference to give the students an opportunity to interact with researchers and discuss their ideas on the future of engineering design of complex systems. Winning essays will be featured on a website so that they are accessible to a broad audience.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.