Acquisiton of Workstation Computers, Rapid Prototyper and Digital Scanner for a Cross-Departmental Laboratory

为跨部门实验室采购工作站计算机、快速原型机和数字扫描仪

• 批准号: 9724186
• 负责人: Howard Leeper
• 金额: $ 28万
• 依托单位: Western Kentucky University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-10-01 至 2002-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9724186&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisiton; Workstation; Computers; Rapid; Prototyper

Western Kentucky University (WKU) is committed to achieving and maintaining excellence in teaching through the introduction and application of new knowledge in education, and the integration of research and education. Research conducted at VIKU, especially in the Ogden College of Science, Technology, and Health (OCSTH) is aimed to involve students at graduate and undergraduate level in projects which will not only develop human resources in science, technology and health, but create the next generation of educators, researchers and administrators for both industry and academia. The purpose of this proposal is to establish a Cross-Departmental Workstation Laboratory, supported by a Rapid Prototyping Machine and a Digital Scanner, that will create a `Virtual Factory` environment to involve faculty and students in production-systems related research and the integration of this research into instruction. The laboratory will at the same time provide departments and cross-departmental units either new opportunities or enhanced capabilities in research and research training in a broad spectrum of disciplines. The `Virtual Factory` will create an environment that simulates the part design, design review and analysis, process design, analysis and optimization, and prototyping stages typical in industry. Workstation computers and advanced computer design and analysis softwares will be used during these stages in addition to the Digital Scanner, which will be utilized to convert shop drawings into three dimensional solid geometry in computers, and the Rapid Prototyper, which will provide researchers a plastic prototype of the final design. In addition these activities will be integrated with the existing Flexible Manufacturing Cell established through prior NSF and state funds as well as donations from industry, so that a complete system from part design to final product will be available to interested parties including Federal agencies, industry, research institutions, and public and private organizations. This setting will enable the students and faculty at NWU share, integrate and apply new knowledge in projects on manufacturing production systems with the interested parties. The proposed equipment will also be used in a variety of research projects by faculty and students from a broad spectrum of disciplines for research and research-training. Among these disciplines are computer science, physics, astronomy, mathematics, biology, engineering technology and industrial technology. Some of these projects will require a multi-disciplinary effort which will be greatly enhanced by the availability of the proposed equipment.

西肯塔基州大学（WKU）致力于通过引入和应用教育新知识，以及研究和教育的整合来实现和保持卓越的教学。 在VIKU进行的研究，特别是在科学，技术和健康的奥格登学院（OCSTH）的目的是让学生在研究生和本科生水平的项目，这不仅将开发人力资源在科学，技术和健康，但创造下一代的教育工作者，研究人员和管理人员为工业和学术界。 这项建议的目的是建立一个跨部门的工作站实验室，由快速原型机和数字扫描仪的支持，这将创建一个“虚拟工厂”的环境，让教师和学生参与生产系统相关的研究，并将这项研究融入教学。 同时，实验室亦会为各部门和跨部门单位提供新的机会，或加强他们在不同学科进行研究和研究训练的能力。 "虚拟工厂“将创造一个环境，模拟工业中典型的零件设计、设计审查和分析、工艺设计、分析和优化以及原型制作阶段。 在这些阶段，除了数码扫描仪和快速原型机外，还将使用工作站计算机和先进的计算机设计和分析软件，数码扫描仪将用于将施工图转换为计算机中的三维立体几何形状，快速原型机将为研究人员提供最终设计的塑料原型。 此外，这些活动将与现有的柔性制造单元相结合，该单元是通过先前的NSF和州基金以及行业捐赠建立的，因此，从零件设计到最终产品的完整系统将提供给包括联邦机构、行业、研究机构以及公共和私人组织在内的相关方。 这种设置将使学生和教师在NWU分享，整合和应用新的知识在制造生产系统的项目与感兴趣的各方。 拟议的设备也将用于各种研究项目的教师和学生从广泛的学科研究和研究培训。 这些学科包括计算机科学、物理学、天文学、数学、生物学、工程技术和工业技术。 其中一些项目将需要多学科的努力，而拟议设备的提供将大大加强这种努力。