An Undergraduate Robotics Course Emphasizing Integrated System Design and Multidisciplinary Team Work

该项目的目标是开发一门多学科机器人课程，强调机器人的集成系统开发性质和跨职能团队合作。该项目采用了CMU通用机器人课程、斯沃斯莫尔学院和布林莫尔学院联合开发的机器人建筑实验室项目以及德雷塞尔大学开发的机器人工具。本课程适用于电气与计算机工程、计算机科学、机械工程和工业工程专业的本科生。因此，它强调机器人的多学科性质，通过调查不同的领域与机器人。本课程采用亲身实践的方法来教授这门课程，其中实验练习是对课堂材料的补充。这为不同工程领域的学生提供了一个机会来体验他们的学科是如何与其他学科相结合的。课程的另一个方面是创建由来自不同领域的学生组成的跨职能团队来开发机器人项目。这是一次重要的经历，为学生提供了学习如何在多学科团队中发挥作用的机会。为了增强这种学习体验，本书提供了教授学生团队合作和团队动力原理的材料。材料的适应性包括两个主要的创新。第一种是包含专门关于团队合作和集成系统设计的材料。第二个创新是课程的教学方式。这包括为每个领域开发足够详细的材料，以便任何一两个工程教员都可以教授这门课程。

59 Engineering-ManufacturingThe objective of the project is to develop a multidisciplinary robotics course that emphasizes the integrated system development nature of robotics and cross-functional teamwork. The project adapts aspects of the General Robotics course at CMU, the Robot Building Laboratory Project developed jointly at Swarthmore College and Bryn Mawr College, and robotics tools developed at Drexel University. This General Robotics course is available for undergraduate students of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Industrial Engineering. Accordingly, it emphasizes the multidisciplinary nature of robotics by surveying the different fields with respect to robotics. The course uses a hands-on approach to teaching the subject where laboratory exercises complement lecture material. This provides students in the different engineering fields an opportunity to experience how their discipline interfaces with other disciplines. Another aspect of the course is to create cross-functional teams comprised of students from the different areas to develop a robotics project. This is an important experience that provides students opportunities to learn about functioning in multidisciplinary teams. To enhance this learning experience, material is presented that teaches students principles of teamwork and group dynamics. The adaptation of the materials includes two major innovations. The first is to include material specifically on teamwork and integrated system design. The second innovation is the way the course is taught. This involves the material being developed with sufficient detail for each area so that any one or two engineering faculty members may teach the course.