A Modern Design Sequence in Mechanical Engineering

在当前实体建模技术出现之前，计算机辅助设计策略与使用传统设计工具（起草板和计算器）的设计策略并没有本质上的区别。最近，在这些策略中出现了很大的差距，今天，现代机械工程设计人员可以使用新的方法。这些新方法在很大程度上依赖于功能强大的图形工作站和集成的CAD软件，这些软件在日常设计工作中变得越来越便宜。该项目旨在通过在传统机械工程课程中引入三维实体建模技术和集成CAD系统，使设计课程的顺序现代化，从大一的工程设计图形课程开始，一直持续到大四的顶点设计项目。将组织现代计算机辅助设计实验室，并开发教育材料，以支持在三维空间中设计机械部件并使用所创建的数据库直接分析其静态、动态、流动或热特性的概念。

Before the current advent of solid modeling techniques, computer- aided design strategies did not substantially differ from the design strategies used with traditional design tools: drafting boards and calculators. Recently, a wide gap has developed in these strategies and today new approaches are available to a modern mechanical engineering designer. These new approaches rely heavily on powerful graphics workstations and integrated CAD software which are becoming more and more affordable for routine design work. The project is concerned with modernizing the sequence of design courses in a traditional mechanical engineering curriculum by introducing three-dimensional solid modeling techniques and integrated CAD systems into these courses, starting with the freshman course on engineering design graphics and continuing through the senior capstone design project. Modern computer-aided design laboratories will be organized and educational materials developed that will support the concept of designing a mechanical component in three-dimensional space and using the created data base for direct analysis of its static, dynamic, flow, or thermal characteristics.