Integrating Computer Software into Lower Division Engineering and Engineering Technology Courses

位于马里兰州拉戈的乔治王子社区学院(PGCC)将于1995年夏季举办一次为期五天的研讨会，将计算机软件纳入下级工程和工程技术课程。研讨会将面向来自工程、工程技术和科学的20名教员，他们在大西洋中部各州的社区大学和高级机构教授低级课程。工作坊将包括讲座/演示、可视化活动，以及使用数学CAD、MicroCap、LogicWorks和PADS的计算机工作。每位学员将把来自三门不同课程的三个问题带到工作坊。这些问题将在研讨会期间得到解决，并发展成一本实践问题和解决方案的“书”，发给每个参与者。课程包括静力学、动力学、材料强度、热力学、电子学和物理学。讲习班参与者还将了解因特网及其用途，以及国家科学基金会工程联盟、卓越教育和领导学校工程联盟(ECSEL)的工作。后续活动包括PGCC开发了一个计算机公告栏，使讲习班教员和其所在机构的其他教员能够相互交流和协助，讲习班参与者在其所在机构的情况介绍，以及为专业会议所作的陈述和论文。

Prince George's Community College, Largo, MD (PGCC) will hold a five-day workshop in summer 1995, Integrating Computer Software into Lower Division Engineering and Engineering Technology Courses. The workshop will be for 20 faculty from engineering, engineering technology, and science, who teach lower division courses in community colleges and senior institutions in the middle Atlantic states. The workshop will include lecture/demonstration, visualization activities, and computer work with Math CAD, MicroCAP, LogicWorks, and PADS. Each participant will bring three problems from three different courses to the workshop. These will be solved during the workshop and developed into a "book" of practice problems and solutions which will be given each participant. Applications will be shown to Statics, Dynamics, Strength of Materials, Thermodynamics, Electronics, and Physics Courses. Workshop participants will also be introduced to Internet and its uses and to the work of the NSF Engineering Coalition, Engineering Coalition of Schools for Excellence in Education and Leadership (ECSEL). Follow-up activities include the development by PGCC of a computer bulletin board to allow workshop faculty and other faculty in their home institutions to communicate and assist one another, presentations by workshop participants in their home institutions, and presentations and papers for professional meetings.