Creating and Using Social Impact Models for Engineered Products

为工程产品创建和使用社会影响模型

基本信息

批准号：
1761505
负责人：
Christopher Mattson
金额：
$ 50.06万
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：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-09-01 至 2022-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1761505&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Creating Using Social Impact Models

项目摘要

Every product has economic, environmental, and social impacts on those who produce and use it. While environmental and economic impacts are relatively well known and appropriate measures have been identified and implemented, very little work has been done to help guide engineers, understanding of social impacts. Therefore, this project focuses on creating ways to measure and evaluate the social impacts of engineered products. Accordingly, the research questions pursued in this project are: (i) How are social impacts of products influenced by engineering decisions, (ii) What studies can be carried out to evaluate the social impact of existing products? (iii) What are social impacts as they relate to engineering decisions that can be observed in existing products? (iv) What is an appropriate framework to guide engineers "understanding of anticipated social impacts of products they're designing" This research promises to improve industrial competitiveness by enabling engineers to account for social factors that oftentimes dictate the success of engineered products, but currently are difficult for engineers to consider formally. It also will promote a vision of sustainable design and engineering in which needs of the present are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Thus, this research intends to have a broad impact on industry and society by transforming how the social impact of engineered products can be understood, predicted and considered in the design and optimization of engineered products. This research will be carried out by, first, defining the boundaries of social impact. This part of the research tames the unwieldy concept of social impact and frames it in a way that links it to engineering decisions, making it tangible to engineers and laying the foundation for future research in sustainable design and engineering. Second, this research will execute empirical studies to model the social impact of existing products. This area of focus involves examining a variety of products/projects with industrial collaborators all over the world who have agreed to provide us with access to existing product and project data. These collaborators bring insight ranging from medical products to consumer products to humanitarian projects and they will provide data and insight from North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Third, this research will extract principles from the empirical studies that act as a foundation for developing a framework for engineers to improve social impacts of their products. Key principles will be extracted and articulated after observing the social impact modeling patterns in the empirical studies. These principles will be at the foundation of the modeling framework created. Fourth, the research will create a principles-based framework to guide engineers in developing social impact models--deterministic and non-deterministic. This portion of the research seeks to develop a generic framework for identifying a product?s social impacts, converging on one or more social sustainability measures for the product, and linking those measures to the engineer-controlled parameters of the design.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

每种产品对生产和使用它的人都有经济，环境和社会影响。虽然环境和经济影响相对众所周知，并且已经确定和实施了适当的措施，但很少有工作来帮助工程师了解社会影响。因此，该项目着重于创建衡量和评估工程产品的社会影响的方法。因此，该项目中提出的研究问题是：（i）工程决策影响产品的社会影响，（ii）可以进行哪些研究来评估现有产品的社会影响？（iii）与现有产品中可以观察到的工程决策有关的社会影响是什么？（iv）什么是一个适当的框架来指导工程师“了解他们正在设计的产品的预期社会影响”这项研究有望通过使工程师能够考虑工程师通常决定工程产品成功的社会因素，从而提高工业竞争力，但目前很难正式考虑工程师。它还将促进可持续设计和工程的愿景，在这种设计和工程上，在不损害子孙后代满足自己需求的能力的情况下，满足当前需求。因此，这项研究打算通过改变工程产品的设计和优化如何理解，预测和考虑如何理解，预测和考虑工程产品的社会影响，从而对工业和社会产生广泛的影响。这项研究将首先定义社会影响的界限。研究的这一部分驯服了社会影响的笨拙概念，并以将其与工程决策联系起来的方式将其构成，使其对工程师有形，并为未来的可持续设计和工程研究奠定了基础。其次，这项研究将执行经验研究，以模拟现有产品的社会影响。重点领域涉及与世界各地的工业合作者一起检查各种产品/项目，他们同意为我们提供现有产品和项目数据的访问。这些合作者带来了从医疗产品到消费产品再到人道主义项目的见解，他们将提供北美，南美，欧洲，非洲和亚洲的数据和见解。第三，这项研究将从实证研究中提取原则，该研究是为工程师改善其产品的社会影响的框架的基础。在观察经验研究中的社会影响建模模式后，将提取和阐明关键原则。这些原则将是创建的建模框架的基础。第四，该研究将创建一个基于原则的框架，以指导工程师开发社会影响模型（确定性和非确定性）。研究的这一部分旨在开发一个通用框架来识别产品的社会影响，融合了产品的一种或多种社会可持续性措施，并将这些措施与设计的工程师控制参数联系起来。这奖反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基础的Intelligal和Broaditial和Sparrit和Sparrits和Broadia进行了评估，这反映了NSF的法规任务，并以评估值得评估。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（16）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Factors leading to sustainable social impact on the affected communities of engineering service learning projects

工程服务学习项目对受影响社区产生可持续社会影响的因素

DOI：
10.1016/j.deveng.2021.100066
发表时间：
2021
期刊：
Development Engineering
影响因子：
0
作者：
Armstrong, Andrew G.;Mattson, Christopher A.;Lewis, Randy S.
通讯作者：
Lewis, Randy S.

Systematic Review and Classification of the Engineering for Global Development Literature Based on Design Tools and Methods for Social Impact Consideration

DOI：
10.1115/1.4055325
发表时间：
2023-03-01
期刊：
JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN
影响因子：
3.3
作者：
Armstrong，Andrew G. G.;Suk，Hailie;Salmon，John L. L.
通讯作者：
Salmon，John L. L.

Logics of Collaboration: An Ethnography of Engineering Co-design in the Brazilian Amazon

合作逻辑：巴西亚马逊地区工程协同设计的民族志

DOI：
10.24908/ijsle.v17i2.15709
发表时间：
2022
期刊：
Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship
影响因子：
0
作者：
Wixom, Jacob Hartt;Dahlin, Eric;Child, Curtis;Mattson, Christopher A.
通讯作者：
Mattson, Christopher A.

Trade-Off Characterization Between Social and Environmental Impacts Using Agent-Based Product Adoption Models and Life Cycle Assessment

使用基于代理的产品采用模型和生命周期评估来权衡社会和环境影响之间的特征

DOI：
10.1115/1.4056006
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
Journal of Mechanical Design
影响因子：
3.3
作者：
Liechty, Joseph C.;Mabey, Christopher S.;Mattson, Christopher A.;Salmon, John L.;Weaver, Jason M.
通讯作者：
Weaver, Jason M.

Design of remote data collection devices for social impact indicators of products in developing countries

发展中国家产品社会影响指标远程数据采集装置设计