Improvement of Undergraduate Education in Advanced CNC and CAD/CAM Technologies

先进数控和CAD/CAM技术本科教育的改进

• 批准号: 9551480
• 负责人: Joan Stepsis
• 金额: $ 2.75万
• 依托单位: San Diego City College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-07-01 至 1997-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9551480&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improvement; Undergraduate; Education; Advanced; CNC

The college has recently upgraded its science, engineering, and technology courses to offer students comprehensive Associate Degree and certificate programs in advanced machine tool and manufacturing technologies. Because defense industry downsizing is forcing manufacturing and machine tool firms into new markets (e.g., biomed, biotech, electronics), CNC operators and CAD/CAM technologists are needed who can use advanced technology to design and produce small, complex parts. To supply graduates for these jobs, the college is developing its undergraduate Machine Technology program into an Advanced CAD/CAM & CNC Technology curriculum. The college and an industry partner are funding new CAD/CAM software delivering advanced surface modeling capability to DOS and NT platforms; this project purchases machine tool components needed to add 4th and 5th axis movement to the College's 3-axis vertical machining center (VMC). Corresponding improvement of Introductory/Advanced CAD/CAM courses let students use the CAD/CAM software to model and verify advanced CNC surface programs; in improved Introductory/Advanced CNC Vertical Machining & EDM courses, they learn to set up and operate the 5-axis VMC needed to machine their programs. In a new 200 series, Advanced VMC, students use the software and 5-axis VMC to design and execute sophisticated surface models for applied research and industry applications.

学院最近升级了理工科课程，为学生提供先进机床和制造技术的综合副学士学位和证书课程。由于国防工业的缩小规模迫使制造和机床公司进入新的市场（例如，生物医学，生物技术，电子），需要CNC操作员和CAD/CAM技术人员，他们可以使用先进的技术来设计和生产小而复杂的零件。为了使毕业生能够胜任这些工作，学院正在将其本科机械技术课程发展为高级CAD/CAM和CNC技术课程。学院和一个行业合作伙伴正在资助新的CAD/CAM软件，为DOS和NT平台提供先进的表面建模能力；该项目采购机床部件，为学院的三轴立式加工中心（VMC）增加第四轴和第五轴运动。相应改进入门/高级CAD/CAM课程，让学生使用CAD/CAM软件建模和验证高级CNC曲面程序；在改进的入门/高级数控垂直加工和电火花加工课程中，他们学习如何设置和操作加工程序所需的五轴VMC。在新的200系列中，高级VMC，学生使用软件和5轴VMC来设计和执行复杂的表面模型，用于应用研究和工业应用。