An Interdisciplinary Design and Manufacturing Laboratory

该项目建立了一个跨学科的实验室， 制造工程技术人员的教育， 机器人技术员和制图/设计技术员， 现实的协作环境。 实验室涉及 基于CAD的先进原型设计与生产系统 涉及所有三个学科的学生的参与。 在这种互动中，来自不同项目的学生 在设计、原型制作和制造方面进行合作， 离散部件 使用的设备包括计算机- 控制系统利用紫外激光器和光， 敏感的树脂，以生产精确的零件原型， CAD图纸。 额外的设备使这些原型能够 被测量和完善，然后用来重新配置一个 现有工厂实验室制造零件。 作为 本实验的结果，三个学科的学生获得 熟悉使用先进的原型生产设备 更重要的是，不同的学科 在工业环境中进行互动和协作。 因此 拟议的实验室改进提升了教育 技术和工程专业的学生在不同的 学科，并提供了一个模型，这些学科如何可以 并且应该相互交流， 现实和有效地为职业生涯在一个工业 环境

This project establishes an interdisciplinary laboratory for the education of manufacturing engineering technicians, robotics technicians, and drafting/design technicians in a realistic, collaborative environment. The laboratory involves a CAD-based advanced prototype design and production system involving participation by students from all three disciplines. In this interaction, students from the different programs collaborate on the design, prototyping, and manufacture of discrete parts. The equipment used includes a computer- controlled system utilizing a ultra-violet laser and photo- sensitive resin to produce accurate prototypes of parts from CAD drawings. Additional equipment allows these prototypes to be measured and refined and then used to reconfigure an existing factory laboratory to manufacture the parts. As a result of this lab, students in the three disciplines gain knowledge in the use of advanced prototype production equipment and, more importantly, in how the different disciplines must interact and collaborate in an industrial setting. Thus, the proposed laboratory improvement upgrades the education of technical and engineering students in the different disciplines, and provides a model for how those disciplines can and should interact in order to prepare those students realistically and effectively for careers in an industrial environment.