Enhancement of Digital, Control, and Microelectronics Courses for a New Manufacturing Engineering Program

工程-其他(59)2000年秋季，西南理工大学技术系被授权开始在校园内开设第一个工程课程，这是一门导致制造工程学士学位的课程。目前的数字电子、控制和半导体制造课程适用于技术课程，但需要大幅升级和增强，以支持新的工程计划。这项提议的目标是提供硬件和软件，以在几个课程中实施一些新的教育倡议，这些课程将支持这一新计划。这些举措正在借鉴德克萨斯农工学院和弗吉尼亚理工学院等机构的想法，开发出适合SWTSU环境的课程，该环境主要来自德克萨斯州中部的农村、少数族裔和女性人口群体。旨在改进的课程是数字电子、控制系统和仪器，以及微电子制造(为期两个学期)。技术项目中常见的实践教学方法的优势正被应用于开发适合现代制造工程师的实验室密集型课程模块。这种实践应用于工程教育的方法是为了迎合所有学生的学习风格。通过师资建设和实施这些变化获得的经验有助于在坚实的基础上建立制造工程课程，增加该地区迫切需要的熟练工程人才库。

Engineering - Other (59)In Fall 2000, the Department of Technology at SWTSU was authorized to begin the first engineering program on campus, a curriculum leading to a B. S. in Manufacturing Engineering. Present courses in digital electronics, controls, and semiconductor manufacturing are suitable for a technology curriculum but need substantial upgrading and enhancement to support the new engineering program. The objective of this proposal is to provide hardware and software to implement a number of new educational initiatives in several courses which are going to support this new program. These initiatives are adapting ideas from institutions such as Texas A&M and Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) to develop a curriculum suited to SWTSU environment, which draws heavily from rural, minority and female population pools in Central Texas.The courses targeted for improvement are in Digital Electronics, Control Systems and Instrumentation, and Microelectronics Manufacturing (a two-semester sequence). The strengths of the hands-on teaching approach that is common in technology programs is being applied to develop laboratory-intensive course modules suitable for modern manufacturing engineers. Such a hands-on applications approach to engineering education is intended to cater to the learning styles of all students. The experience gained through faculty development and implementation of these changes helps to establish the manufacturing engineering program on a firm foundation, adding to the pool of skilled engineering personnel which are badly needed in this region.