Development of a Lower-Division CAD/CAM Laboratory to Replace Traditional CADD Laboratory for Engineering Design Graphics

9451939 Juricic该项目将为较低级别的CAD/CAM（计算机辅助设计和制造）实验室开发一个国家模型，以取代目前的CADD（计算机辅助绘图）实验室，用于教授工程设计图形（EDG）课程。 实验室应提供一个吸引和留住工程专业学生的示范手段。 实验室的软件和硬件，适合低年级的学生，将被确定和整合，练习将被开发和记录，并将编写教师的笔记和教程，为实验室的发展。除了将领导该项目的两名PI外，六名领先的EDG教育工作者将组成一个咨询委员会，多达25名其他EDG教育工作者将作为顾问参与评估和课堂测试所开发的教学材料。EDG教育者代表各种机构- 2年制，4年制和博士;此外，许多参与机构都有大量的少数民族人口。 来自六个工业组织的一组执业工程师将提供工业界急需的投入。 CAD/CAM为基础的工程设计图形实验室提出，将影响到大量的学生，也许高达280,000学位的工程师和近同等数量的两年制大学毕业生在预期的5年寿命的新实验室。

9451939 Juricic This project will develop a national model for the lower-division CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing) laboratories that will replace present CADD (Computer-Aided Drafting) laboratories for teaching Engineering Design Graphics (EDG) courses. The laboratory should provide a model means of attracting and retaining engineering students. The lab software and hardware, appropriate for lower-division students, will be identified and integrated, exercises will be developed and documented, and instructor's notes and tutorials for lab development will be written. In addition to the two PIs that will lead this project, six leading EDG educators will form an Advisory Committee, and as many as 25 other EDG educators will participate as consultants in evaluation and classroom testing of instructional material developed. The EDG educators represent a variety of institutions-- 2-year, 4-year, and doctoral; additionally many of the participating institutions have large minority populations. A group of practicing engineers from six industrial organizations will provide much needed input from industry. The CAD/CAM based Engineering Design Graphics laboratories proposed herewith will impact on a large number of students, perhaps up to 280,000 degreed engineers and nearly an equal number of two-year college graduates during the expected 5- year lifetime of the new laboratory.