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

这个项目将为低级别的CAD/CAM（计算机辅助设计和制造）实验室开发一个国家模型，它将取代目前的CADD（计算机辅助制图）实验室，用于教授工程设计图形学（EDG）课程。该实验室应成为吸引和留住工科学生的典范。将确定和整合适合低年级学生的实验软件和硬件，将开发和记录练习，并编写用于实验开发的讲师笔记和教程。除了将领导该项目的两名私人顾问外，六名领先的教育工作者将组成一个咨询委员会，另外多达25名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的教育工作者代表了不同的机构——两年制、四年制和博士学位；此外，许多参与机构有大量少数民族人口。来自六个工业组织的一组实践工程师将提供急需的工业投入。本文提出的基于CAD/CAM的工程设计图形实验室将影响大量学生，在新实验室预计的5年使用寿命中，可能多达28万名拥有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.