Collaborative Research - NSF Workshop Series: Interdisciplinary Design as an Instructional Discipline

协作研究 - NSF 研讨会系列：作为教学学科的跨学科设计

• 批准号: 0847181
• 负责人: Timothy Simpson
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0847181&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; NSF; Workshop; Series

This grant provides funding to conduct a series of workshops on Interdisciplinary Design as an Instructional Discipline to be held over a 12 month period. Workshops will be held at the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, and in conjunction with the 2009 NSF CMII Grantees Conference and the 2009 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences. These workshops will address issues related to supporting the emerging discipline of design through graduate education and interdisciplinary design research. Participants from a broad range of disciplines, including engineering, architecture, industrial design, visual arts, psychology, and business, among others, will be invited to attend.Design is an integrative activity that spans many disciplines; however, our educational system often struggles to provide interdisciplinary design experiences for our undergraduate and graduate students and to recognize the significance of design research. Recently, new and innovative interdisciplinary graduate programs in design have arisen with strong ties to engineering yet structured to fully embrace and complement research from other disciplines. These graduate programs have the potential to influence the development of a new discipline of design that includes both education and research. Interdisciplinary education is a central factor in expanding and sustaining an American competitive advantage in today's global economy. Developing design as a broadly recognized and practiced instructional discipline is essential for maintaining leadership in the innovation of new products and systems. This series of workshops will bring together experts in the field of engineering design research and education and the larger design community to explore the challenges, successes, practices and future directions of interdisciplinary design graduate programs to gain insight into how to construct, grow, and sustain programs that prepare students for successful design innovation. If successful, this series of workshops will form the basis of new approaches to design education and research that fully embraces interdisciplinary collaborations within the current structure of academia.

该赠款提供了资金，以进行一系列有关跨学科设计的研讨会，作为在12个月内举行的教学学科。研讨会将在密歇根大学，西北大学举行，并与2009年NSF CMII授予者会议和2009年ASME国际设计工程技术会议一起举行。这些研讨会将解决与通过研究生教育和跨学科设计研究支持设计学科有关的问题。将邀请来自各种学科的参与者，包括工程，建筑，工业设计，视觉艺术，心理学和商业等。但是，我们的教育系统经常努力为我们的本科和研究生提供跨学科的设计经验，并认识到设计研究的重要性。最近，设计的新的和创新的跨学科研究生课程与工程学有着密切的联系，但结构旨在完全接受和补充其他学科的研究。这些研究生课程有可能影响包括教育和研究在内的新设计学科的发展。跨学科教育是扩大和维持当今全球经济中美国竞争优势的核心因素。将设计作为一项广泛认可和实践的教学学科对于保持新产品和系统创新的领导力至关重要。这一系列研讨会将汇集工程设计研究和教育领域的专家以及更大的设计社区，以探讨跨学科设计研究生计划的挑战，成功，实践和未来的方向，以洞悉如何构建，成长和维持学生为成功设计创新做好准备的计划。如果成功的话，这一系列的研讨会将构成设计教育和研究的新方法的基础，这些方法完全涵盖了当前学术界结构内的跨学科合作。