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

9451939该项目将为较低级别的计算机辅助设计和制造实验室开发一个国家模式，以取代目前用于教授工程设计学课程的计算机辅助设计和制造实验室。实验室应该提供一种吸引和留住工科学生的示范方法。将确定并集成适合低级学生的实验软件和硬件，开发并记录练习，并编写教师笔记和实验开发教程。除了领导这一项目的两名专业人员外，六名主要的教育工作者将组成一个咨询委员会，多达25名其他教育工作者将作为顾问参与编写的教学材料的评估和课堂测试。EDG教育者代表了各种机构--两年制、四年制和博士生；此外，许多参与机构有大量的少数族裔人口。一组来自六个行业组织的实践工程师将提供业界亟需的投入。在此提出的基于CAD/CAM的工程设计图形实验室将影响到大量的学生，在新实验室预期的5年寿命内，可能会有多达28万名获得学位的工程师和几乎相同数量的两年制大学毕业生。

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.