CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: Collaborative Research - A Sustainable Product Development Collaboratory

CI-TEAM示范项目：协作研究——可持续产品开发合作实验室

• 批准号: 1041423
• 负责人: Karl Haapala
• 金额: $ 6.49万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2012-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1041423&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; TEAM; Demonstration; Project; Collaborative

This Sustainable Product Development Collaboratory at Wayne State University is realizing a collaborative e-learning laboratory for sustainable design and manufacturing?a Sustainable Product Development Collaboratory?for conveying sustainability principles in the context of product architectural design, manufacturing, assembly, and supply chain decisions across a spectrum of active learners (i.e., K-12, university, and practitioners). Intellectual Merit : This collaboratory is creative and original because it will result in a holistic and broadly useable tool that will support cyber-based conceptual product design by integrating existing research in the following areas: distributed decision support, semantic assembly design, product architecture optimization, assembly and process analysis, supply chain configuration, life cycle assessment, and manufacturing education innovation, to address the needs across a spectrum of learners (K-12 students, engineering students, and practitioners). The project is delivering four outcomes. Outcome one: A user friendly and license-free web-based tool and interactive e-learning platform to educate users in sustainable design and manufacturing. This collaboratory is demonstrating the effects of different product designs on supply chain costs and environmental impacts with learner friendly examples (i.e., three ring binder, backpack, electric toothbrush, and bicycle). Researchers are overcoming limitations of the existing state of the art, which include a lack of scalable tools/technologies that can capture interdependencies between product design architecture and life cycle process requirements at all phases of product development, and the complexity of jointly improving the product and processes through flexible, representative models and algorithms. Outcome two: Secondary and post-secondary educational materials that provide hands-on, project-based activities in interaction with the Collaboratory. Outcome three: Evaluation tools to assess the educational impacts and competency of the Collaboratory in educating students about cyberinfrastructure, including assessment of students at the participating high school and universities and user adoption of the cyber-platform. To date, there has been a significant level of grassroots activities for sustainable design and manufacturing. However, engineering programs and manufacturing companies continue to struggle with methods to educate engineers in holistic product and process development with a view of life cycle costs and environmental effects. Outcome four: This research will engage high-school students and underrepresented college populations to promote a diverse cyber-ready workforce. Under the cyber-learner paradigm, users are experiencing and undertaking sustainable product design with consideration of product, process, and supply chain impacts facilitated by product architecture and environmental performance knowledge sets. Broader Impacts : The proposed work directly responds to the needs for a cyber-enabled workforce and sustainable engineering education by increasing awareness of product and environmental sustainability through cyber-based product design. Sustainability-related research has been shown to disproportionately attract students to STEM disciplines from underrepresented groups, and will broaden their involvement in next generation engineering education and research. To increase workforce preparedness for design and environmental sustainability, the Collaboratory is supporting the development of products and related supply chains for increased performance, reduced costs, and reduced environmental impacts (e.g., carbon footprint). Indeed, the trend towards outsourcing will lead to growth of the global carbon footprint, even without accounting for associated transportation, due to less efficient energy generation and manufacturing processes. The Collaboratory is directly supporting the product manufacturing industry by educating engineers about sustainable design through accessible cyber-based tools. These tools will help maintain the U.S. industry?s competitive edge by enhancing productivity, and quality and sustainability of mechanical products. Given the underrepresented student populations at participating universities, and in particular Wayne State in Detroit, the project will support societal educational needs by involving women and minority high school and university students in research and field studies. Successful implementation of the project will help to develop, at a modest cost, new pedagogy for academic institutions to integrate sustainability into engineering curricula, and prepare a skilled workforce that meets the needs of modern industry for sustainable product development. The proposed integrated learning environment will also advance high school students? multi-step problem solving skills through tangible, realistic examples. Finally, the project will enhance research and education infrastructure by extending the effects of previous research findings and by forming the basis for collaboration on other research and education projects.

韦恩州立大学的可持续产品开发合作实验室正在实现可持续设计和制造的协作电子学习实验室（可持续产品开发合作实验室），用于在产品架构设计、制造、组装和供应链决策的背景下传达可持续发展原则。一系列积极的学习者（即 K-12、大学和从业者）。智力优点：该合作具有创造性和原创性，因为它将产生一个全面且广泛使用的工具，通过整合以下领域的现有研究来支持基于网络的概念产品设计：分布式决策支持、语义组装设计、产品架构优化、装配和流程分析、供应链配置、生命周期评估和制造教育创新，以满足各类学习者（K-12 学生、工程专业学生和从业人员）的需求。该项目正在取得四项成果。成果一：用户友好且免许可的基于网络的工具和交互式电子学习平台，用于教育用户可持续设计和制造。该合作项目通过易于学习的示例（即三环活页夹、背包、电动牙刷和自行车）展示不同产品设计对供应链成本和环境影响的影响。研究人员正在克服现有技术的局限性，其中包括缺乏可扩展的工具/技术来捕获产品开发所有阶段的产品设计架构和生命周期过程要求之间的相互依赖性，以及共同改进产品和技术的复杂性。通过灵活的、有代表性的模型和算法进行处理。成果二：中学和高等教育材料，提供与合作实验室互动的基于项目的实践活动。成果三：评估合作实验室在教育学生网络基础设施方面的教育影响和能力的评估工具，包括对参与高中和大学的学生以及网络平台的用户采用情况的评估。迄今为止，可持续设计和制造方面的基层活动已经开展了大量。然而，工程项目和制造公司仍然在努力寻找方法来教育工程师进行整体产品和工艺开发，并考虑生命周期成本和环境影响。成果四：这项研究将吸引高中生和代表性不足的大学生，以促进多元化的网络就绪劳动力队伍。在网络学习者范式下，用户正在体验并进行可持续产品设计，同时考虑产品架构和环境绩效知识集促进的产品、流程和供应链影响。更广泛的影响：拟议的工作通过基于网络的产品设计提高对产品和环境可持续性的认识，直接满足网络劳动力和可持续工程教育的需求。事实证明，与可持续发展相关的研究极大地吸引了来自弱势群体的学生进入 STEM 学科，并将扩大他们对下一代工程教育和研究的参与。为了提高劳动力对设计和环境可持续性的准备，该合作实验室正在支持产品和相关供应链的开发，以提高性能、降低成本并减少环境影响（例如碳足迹）。事实上，由于能源生产和制造流程效率较低，即使不考虑相关运输，外包趋势也将导致全球碳足迹的增长。该合作实验室通过可访问的网络工具对工程师进行可持续设计教育，从而直接支持产品制造业。这些工具将通过提高机械产品的生产率、质量和可持续性来帮助保持美国工业的竞争优势。鉴于参与大学，特别是底特律韦恩州立大学的学生人数不足，该项目将通过让女性和少数族裔高中生和大学生参与研究和实地研究来支持社会教育需求。该项目的成功实施将有助于以适度的成本为学术机构开发新的教学法，将可持续发展纳入工程课程，并培养一支熟练的劳动力，以满足现代工业对可持续产品开发的需求。拟议的综合学习环境是否也会促进高中生的发展？通过具体、现实的例子来培养多步骤解决问题的能力。最后，该项目将通过扩大先前研究成果的影响并为其他研究和教育项目的合作奠定基础来加强研究和教育基础设施。