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

强调集成系统设计和多学科团队合作的本科机器人课程

• 批准号: 0311434
• 负责人: Jerry Weinberg
• 金额: $ 8.4万
• 依托单位: Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-15 至 2005-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0311434&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Undergraduate; Robotics; Course; Emphasizing; Integrated

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.

该项目的目标是开发一个多学科的机器人课程，强调机器人和跨职能团队合作的综合系统开发性质。该项目采用CMU的通用机器人课程，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，以及德雷克塞尔大学开发的机器人工具。本通用机器人课程适用于电气和计算机工程，计算机科学，机械工程和工业工程的本科生。因此，它通过调查与机器人技术有关的不同领域来强调机器人技术的多学科性质。本课程采用动手实践的方法来教授这个主题，实验练习补充了课堂材料。这为不同工程领域的学生提供了一个机会，体验他们的学科如何与其他学科相结合。该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，以开发机器人项目。这是一个重要的经验，为学生提供机会，了解多学科团队的运作。为了加强这种学习经验，材料是教学生的团队合作和团体动力的原则。材料的改编包括两个主要创新。第一种是列入专门关于团队工作和综合系统设计的材料。第二个创新是课程的教学方式。这涉及到正在开发的材料与每个领域的足够细节，使任何一个或两个工程教师可以教的课程。