CAREER: Giving You "Almost" What You Want - Customizing Products Through the Integration of Market Modeling and Engineering Design

职业：给你“几乎”你想要的——通过市场建模和工程设计的整合定制产品

• 批准号: 1054208
• 负责人: Scott Ferguson
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-01 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1054208&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Giving; Almost; What; Want

The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award is to test the hypothesis that improving the integration of preference modeling and engineering design can lead to customized products better suited to respond to heterogeneous markets and changing needs. While mass customization - providing customers with exactly what they want - has seen significant failures, competitiveness in a global market requires balancing targeted product architectures with consumer-customizable components. Research tasks are identified that will advance how engineers: 1) utilize consumer preferences; 2) manage system flexibility; and 3) implement system reconfigurability. The educational objectives engage in activities that focus on the multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and systems-level education of current and future engineers. These objectives are achieved in part by: 1) introducing computer-based multidisciplinary design optimization problems in a pilot study at four high schools; and 2) working toward an undergraduate general education thematic track in interdisciplinary design. If successful, this research will allow American manufacturing enterprises to identify markets where giving a customer 'almost' what they want - through personalization (done by the manufacturer) and customization (done by the consumer) - can deliver maximum value. Further, by understanding how component properties influence system reconfigurations, viable markets and core technologies for reconfigurability will be defined. The educational objectives will create a design thread that extends from high school through graduate school. Applying multidisciplinary simulations in secondary education is a first step toward producing engineers with interdisciplinary competency, and will be used to promote diversity in engineering by shedding light on today's societal challenges. At the collegiate level, engineering students will get focused exposure to interdisciplinary topics, while students outside of engineering will be exposed to principles of product design. As NC State currently has no engineering classes available for general education credit, this thematic track will have campus-wide effects.

该学院早期职业发展（CAREER）奖的研究目标是检验这样的假设：改进偏好建模和工程设计的整合可以带来更适合应对异构市场和不断变化的需求的定制产品。 虽然大规模定制——为客户提供他们真正想要的东西——已经遭遇了重大失败，但全球市场的竞争力需要平衡目标产品架构与消费者可定制的组件。 确定的研究任务将促进工程师如何：1）利用消费者偏好； 2）管理系统灵活性； 3) 实现系统可重构性。 教育目标涉及针对当前和未来工程师的多学科、跨学科和系统级教育的活动。 这些目标部分是通过以下方式实现的：1）在四所高中的试点研究中引入基于计算机的多学科设计优化问题； 2）致力于跨学科设计的本科通识教育主题轨道。 如果成功，这项研究将使美国制造企业能够确定市场，通过个性化（由制造商完成）和定制（由消费者完成）为客户提供“几乎”他们想要的东西，可以带来最大价值。 此外，通过了解组件属性如何影响系统可重构性，将定义可重构性的可行市场和核心技术。 教育目标将创建一条从高中延伸到研究生院的设计主线。 在中等教育中应用多学科模拟是培养具有跨学科能力的工程师的第一步，并将用于通过揭示当今的社会挑战来促进工程的多样性。 在大学阶段，工程专业的学生将重点接触跨学科主题，而工程以外的学生将接触产品设计原理。 由于北卡罗来纳州立大学目前没有提供普通教育学分的工程课程，因此该主题课程将在全校范围内产生影响。