A Task Force to Study Operations Research as a Catalyst for Engineering Grand Challenges

研究运筹学作为工程重大挑战催化剂的工作组

基本信息

批准号：
1243182
负责人：
Suvrajeet Sen
金额：
$ 2.5万
依托单位：
University of Southern California
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2012-08-15 至 2014-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1243182&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Task Force Study Operations Research

项目摘要

Over the past several years, a group of leading thinkers from around the world have come together to identify some grand challenges for engineering (under the auspices of the NAE). These challenges, broadly classified under the themes of Sustainability, Security, Human Health, and the Joy of Living, identify a few key areas with the potential to reinvent our way of life. The role of the proposed Task Force is to identify new operations research (OR) directions that will enable the NAE Grand Challenge-domains to leverage new OR knowledge into their research. In this sense, the proposed effort will identify OR challenges with an eye towards serving as a catalyst for the NAE Grand Challenges. The Task Force will convene three meetings. The first one will be focused on distilling the NAE challenges into drivers for OR research. Given the multi-disciplinary nature of OR, it is expected that certain broad requirements for OR research will emerge during presentations, and deliberations of the task force. The second meeting will be focused on in-depth statements of OR challenges, which if met by the OR community, will allow the NAE challenges to make progress, and even engage the OR community in the quest for solutions to some of the more pressing problems facing the engineering world. Finally, at a third meeting feedback from a panel of referees will be incorporated into the preparation of a final report that is expected to be widely disseminated in the OR community and have broad impact in shaping future research directions.

在过去的几年中，来自世界各地的一群主要思想家聚集在一起，以确定工程学的一些巨大挑战（在NAE的主持下）。这些挑战在可持续性，安全，人类健康和生活乐趣的主题下进行了广泛分类，并确定了一些关键领域，有可能重塑我们的生活方式。拟议工作组的作用是确定新的操作研究（OR）方向，这些方向将使NAE大挑战域能够利用新的或知识来研究其研究。从这个意义上讲，拟议的努力将确定或挑战，以作为NAE大挑战的催化剂。工作队将召集三次会议。第一个将重点放在将NAE挑战提取到驱动因素或研究中。鉴于或期望在演讲期间出现某些广泛的或研究的多学科性质，以及对工作队的讨论。第二次会议将集中于对或挑战的深入陈述，如果由或社区满足，将允许NAE挑战取得进步，甚至让或社区参与寻求解决方案，以解决一些更紧迫的问题面对工程世界。最后，在第三次会议上，裁判小组的反馈将纳入最终报告的准备中，该报告有望在或社区中广泛传播，并在塑造未来的研究方向方面产生了广泛的影响。