Expert System Support for a Microcomputer Laboratory

9451860这个项目的目标是：演示专家系统在工程教育中的适用性；并提高电工实验教学的效率。使用专家系统使学生能够进行更多自己的故障排除。学生们不必等待援助。他们能够查询专家系统，并在需要时接受指导，即使在非实验室时间也是如此。其结果是增加了学生/教职员工讨论更先进的系统设计和开发概念和方法的机会。通常，实验室讲师在实验室的大部分时间里只有一个或两个实验小组帮助他们进行故障排除。专家系统允许教授在实验室期间为更多的学生服务，因为它处理日常任务。专家系统会继续“学习”症状和解决方案，始终提供故障排除建议的完整“回忆”，即使是第一次教授该课程的新教员和实验室助教也是如此。创新地使用计算机和专家系统，通过提供在基于微处理器的系统设计实验室中遇到的某些常规功能来协助电气和计算机工程学院。我们将仔细评估专家系统在工程教育中的应用，以确认其作为“助教”的价值。

9451860 King The goals of this project are: To demonstrate the applicability of expert systems to engineering education; and to improve the efficiency of the electrical engineering laboratory instruction. Use of an expert system enables the students to conduct more of their own troubleshooting. Students do not have to wait for assistance. They are able to query the expert system and receive guidance as the need arises, even during non-laboratory hours. The result is an increased opportunity for student/faculty discussions of more advanced concepts and methods of system design and development. Usually, the laboratory instructor spends most of the laboratory period with just one or two of the lab groups assisting them with troubleshooting tasks. The expert system allows the professor to service more of the students during the lab period because it copes with the routine tasks. The expert system continues to "learn" symptoms and solutions, always providing complete "recall" of troubleshooting suggestions, even for new faculty and laboratory teaching assistants who teach the course for the first time. Innovative use is made of computers and an expert system to assist electrical and computer engineering faculty by providing certain of the routine functions encountered in the microprocessor-based systems design laboratory. This application of expert systems to engineering education will be carefully evaluated to confirm its value as a "teaching assistant".