NSF Workshop – Collaborative Practice: When Engineering Design Meets Architecture

Penn Design, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa
November 4 - 5, 2010

The Architecture Program at Penn DESIGN in collaboration with The Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Department of Architectural Engineering at Penn State University will host the NSF Workshop – Collaborative Practice: When Engineering Design Meets Architecture.

The event, co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), will be held in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania on November 4th and 5th, 2010. The workshop is dedicated to the cultivation of a common research language amongst architects and engineer with the goal of overcoming many of the historic barriers that have hindered effective collaboration between the disciplines. Throughout the two day event, successful interdisciplinary teams of researchers will communicate their strategies for obtaining NSF support for research in design. A select number of professional and industry partners will discuss building related advances that have resulted from research in both fields, while NSF personnel will clarify the organization’s goals, procedures and evaluation criteria. We are interested in devising new and effective strategies for increasing the range of collaborative opportunities available to architects and engineers.

To this end, the organizers seek participation from academic colleagues primarily from universities with strong programs in both engineering and architecture. Interdisciplinary research teams working across institutional boundaries who have or who are planning to participate in funded research are encouraged to apply for a sponsored workshop registration. Interested parties are asked to submit a one page project description of their collaborative research whether past, present or in the planning stages, clearly identifying all team members. Participants who are selected are not expected to make a presentation, but should they wish to can by communicating their interest within the project description. Teams of researchers who submit by September 1 will be assured consideration. Sponsored participants will be contacted by September 20, 2010. Please address all responses and enquiries to Franca Trubiano at trubiano@design.upenn.edu.

William Braham, Penn Design
Tim Simpson, Penn State
Franca Trubiano, Penn Design
Dan Willis, Penn State