0968876 Brigham Young University (BYU); Gregory Jensen 0968957 University of Puerto Rico (UPR); David Serrano
Brigham Young University (BYU) and the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) propose to join the existing Center for e-Design that is currently comprised of Virginia Tech (lead), the University of Central Florida and the University of Massachusetts.
YU and UPR will complement the research umbrella by investigating, modifying, and prototyping, at kernel levels, new architectures for networked multi-user computer-aided applications (v-CAx). The new institutions will add strategically to Center goals, because of their strong histories in applications of modern CAx software. The proposed research will support the existing Center?s infrastructure research in all four thrust areas, but will strongly complement Thrust II: New Paradigms and Processes. The intellectual merit will be measured by how the rather subtle perturbations to the computer operating systems (OS) and CAx architectures collapse product development times for multi-users.
The new universities bring cultural diversity to the research that will be demanded by research prototypes. BYU will extend and integrate CAx applications through API libraries, computer OS architectures, network security, and business team conflict resolution. While BYU has strong relationships with several international institutions that have expertise in gaming technologies, UPR has backgrounds in constraint relationships as they relate to design parameters. BYU's and UPR's strong dependence on both undergraduate and graduate students for development and testing, will provide students a rich educational experience. The universities also plan to involve K-12 and post K-12 levels in the Center.
NSF I/UCRC Planning Grant Report BYU n-CAx Site Planning as potential member of the Center for e-Design The main purpose of this NSF Planning Grant award was to help defray the costs associated with the initial NSF I/UCRC planning grant meeting to assist Brigham Young University’s organization of the Next Generation n-CAx site in preparation for joining the established Center for e-Design I/UCRC. With the approval of NSF program directors, BYU announced to their industrial constituents that a planning meeting was scheduled for August 11th-13th at Snowbird, Utah. In the three months leading up to the planning meeting researchers at BYU worked hard to get commitments from a wide range of engineering industries to send their representatives to the meeting. Dr. Greg Jensen & Dr. Edward Red developed a broad research team that included researchers from Computer Science, Civil Engineering, Information Technology and Organizational Behavior and Leadership at BYU. In a similar effort the University of Puerto Rico (UPRM) held their planning meeting in conjunction with ours (via web-conferencing), as they also applied to join the Center for e-Design. At the planning meeting 29 individuals representing 16 separate companies reviewed and critiqued projects from both BYU and UPRM. Companies like Boeing, Spirit, Cisco, GM, Pratt & Whitney, Microsoft, Siemens, Altair were at the meeting and participated enthusiastically. As research topics/projects were presented and discussed it was clear that the attendees were highly interested in seeing the proposed research funded and pursued through the I/UCRC Center for e-Design. Alex Schwarzkopf from NSF and Janis Terpenny, Director of the Center for e-Design, were most helpful in exposing the industrial participants to the vision, goals, objectives, and benefits of having the BYU n-CAx site join the well-established e-Design Center. The outcomes from this successful planning meeting were an industry supportive vision of our proposed research and a prioritized list in which the projects should be undertaken. This information was incorporated into a full I/UCRC proposal on September 26, 2010. We are now awaiting approval to proceed as a site member of the Center for e-Design. The provided images were taken during the planning meeting held at Snowbird, UT, USA on Aug. 11-13, 2010.
