EAGER: Social Impact Modeling for Engineered Products

EAGER：工程产品的社会影响建模

基本信息

批准号：
1632740
负责人：
Christopher Mattson
金额：
$ 20万
依托单位：
Brigham Young University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2016-04-01 至 2018-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1632740&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
EAGER Social Impact Modeling Engineered

项目摘要

Every manufactured product has three areas of impact: economic, environmental, and social impact. Positive impact in all three of these areas leads to sustainable engineering, such that the needs of the present are met, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Unfortunately, the social elements of engineering decisions -- meaning how they affect the day-to-day quality of life of persons -- have not yet been the focus of significant engineering design research. As a result, models to help engineers evaluate the social impact of engineering decisions do not yet exist. This EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award supports an interdisciplinary study (engineering and sociology) to explore how social impact models can be created for engineered products, how the uncertainty associated with social issues can be included in those models, and how the quality of those models can be judged in a product development setting. Successfully completing the goals of this research will bring US engineers one step closer to sustainable design and engineering.The concept of social impact is broad, unwieldy, and currently undefined as it relates to engineered products. This research will begin to define the boundaries of social impact as it is influenced by engineering decisions. The research team will perform a number of tasks aimed at accomplishing this, including: (i) identifying social impacts and social influences (i.e., ways social issues can affect the adoption and impact of a product) in the literature and through interactions with industrial partners and their existing products; (ii) integrating and classifying these social impacts and influencers into broad dimensions or issue-areas that are relevant for engineering design; (iii) identifying ethnographic instruments or administrative data for measuring each social impact; and (iv) executing empirical studies to understand modeling formalisms for evaluating the social impact of products. The intellectual merit of the research is to understand the most unknown, uncharacterized, branch of sustainable design -- the social dimension. This research is motivated by the reality that until the social impact of engineered products can be modeled, fully sustainable design is out of reach for the engineering community. Additionally, as engineers become more capable of modeling the social impact of products, the complex tradeoffs between economic, environmental, and social sustainability will begin to dominate the discussion. Successful research by the team will enable product-specific tradeoffs between economic, environmental, and social sustainability to be explored numerically using traditional trade-space exploration methods.

每个制造产品都有三个影响的领域：经济，环境和社会影响。这三个领域的积极影响都会带来可持续的工程，从而满足了当前的需求，而不会损害子孙后代满足自己需求的能力。不幸的是，工程决策的社会要素（这意味着它们如何影响人的日常生活质量）尚未成为重要的工程设计研究的重点。结果，帮助工程师评估工程决策的社会影响的模型尚不存在。这项探索性研究（急切）奖的早期概念授予授予了一项跨学科研究（工程和社会学），以探讨如何为工程产品创建社会影响模型，如何在这些模型中包括与社会问题相关的不确定性，以及如何在产品开发环境中判断这些模型的质量。成功完成这项研究的目标将使我们的工程师更接近可持续设计和工程。社会影响的概念广泛，笨拙，并且目前与工程产品有关。这项研究将开始定义社会影响的界限，因为它受到工程决策的影响。研究团队将执行许多旨在实现这一目标的任务，包括：（i）确定社会影响和社会影响（即社会问题可能影响产品的采用和影响的方式）在文献中以及与工业伙伴及其现有产品的互动；（ii）将这些社会影响和有影响力的人整合到与工程设计相关的广泛维度或问题方面；（iii）确定人种学工具或行政数据，以衡量每种社会影响；（iv）执行经验研究以了解建模形式主义，以评估产品的社会影响。这项研究的智力优点是了解可持续设计的最未知，未知，可持续设计的分支 - 社会维度。这项研究的激励是，即在对工程产品的社会影响进行建模之前，工程社区完全可持续的设计将无法实现。此外，随着工程师越来越有能力建模产品的社会影响，经济，环境和社会可持续性之间的复杂权衡将开始主导讨论。团队的成功研究将使经济，环境和社会可持续性之间的特定于产品的权衡使用传统的贸易空间探索方法进行数值探索。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（6）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

The social impacts of products: a review

产品的社会影响：回顾

DOI：
10.1080/14615517.2018.1445176
发表时间：
2018
期刊：
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal
影响因子：
2.2
作者：
Rainock, Meagan;Everett, Dallin;Pack, Andrew;Dahlin, Eric C.;Mattson, Christopher A.
通讯作者：
Mattson, Christopher A.

A Simple Starting Point for Designing for and/or Assessing the Social Impact of Products

设计和/或评估产品社会影响的简单起点

DOI：
10.1115/detc2017-67586
发表时间：
2017
期刊：
ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
影响因子：
0
作者：
Ottosson, Hans;Hirschi, Emma;Mattson, Christopher A.;Dahlin, Eric
通讯作者：
Dahlin, Eric

An Assessment of Village Drill Sustainability, With Recommendations

村庄演习可持续性评估及建议

DOI：
10.1115/detc2017-67581
发表时间：
2018
期刊：
ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
影响因子：
0
作者：
Pack, Andrew T.;Mattson, Christopher A.
通讯作者：
Mattson, Christopher A.

Toward a Universal Social Impact Metric for Engineered Products That Alleviate Poverty

为减轻贫困的工程产品制定通用的社会影响指标

DOI：
10.1115/1.4038925
发表时间：
2018
期刊：
Journal of Mechanical Design
影响因子：
3.3
作者：
Stevenson, Phillip D.;Mattson, Christopher A.;Bryden, Kenneth M.;MacCarty, Nordica A.
通讯作者：
MacCarty, Nordica A.

Social Impact in Product Design: An Exploration of Current Industry Practices

产品设计中的社会影响：当前行业实践的探索

DOI：
10.1115/detc2018-86170
发表时间：
2018
期刊：
ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
影响因子：
0
作者：
Pack, Andrew T.;Phipps, Emma Rose;Mattson, Christopher A.;Dahlin, Eric C.
通讯作者：
Dahlin, Eric C.