Faculty Development in Collaborative Design and Rapid Tooling and Manufacturing

新的设计技术人员需要具备协同设计、快速模具和制造流程方面的经验。在这个项目中，来自社区学院的教师参与了实践学习，这导致了课程的改进，并改善了学生回到自己的校园学习的情况。该项目为工程和设计技术专业人员提供全面的协同设计和快速模具制造方面的专业发展。在2005年和2006年的暑假期间，工程学教员参加了代顿同时开设的暑期学院。哦，和加州文图拉在两条赛道上。基于网络的讨论小组和传播活动旨在支持教师实施研讨会上提出的课程材料。一个独特的特点是，代顿和文图拉研讨会同时举行，允许实时跨洲教师协作。教职员工可以通过电子邮件将文件发送给辛克莱，以便在其快速原型设备正常停机期间生产部件。每年都有40名工程技术教员(代顿和文图拉各20名)参加这两个课程。俄亥俄州和加利福尼亚州的教师团队通过互联网作为工业设计团队合作设计部件，并使用快速原型技术制造部件。这一经验提供了对商业和工业中常规使用的协作设计、快速模具和制造流程的准确模拟。参与课程的教师使用课堂中的流程和模拟来增强实验室组件。该项目招募的教职员工来自服务不足的人群，并在服务不足人口众多的机构任教。预计教师参与者将向暑期学院期间开发的课程改进注入内容，为服务不足的学生提供尖端学习机会。通过该项目创造的所有经验教训和实验室经验都张贴在项目网站上。

New design technicians need experience in Collaborative Design and Rapid Tooling and Manufacturing processes. In this project, faculty from community colleges engage in hands-on learning that is resulting in curriculum enhancements and improved student learning back on their home campuses. This project provides comprehensive professional development on collaborative Design and Rapid Tooling and Manufacturing for engineering and design technology faculty. During the summers of 2005 and 2006, engineering faculty members are participating in Summer Institutes offered concurrently in Dayton. OH and Ventura, CA in the two tracks. Web-based discussion groups and dissemination activities are designed to support faculty as they implement the curricular material presented in workshops. A unique feature is that the Dayton and Ventura workshops are held simultaneously permitting real-time cross-continental faculty collaboration. Faculty can e-mail files to Sinclair to produce parts during what would normally be downtime of its rapid prototyping equipment. Each year 40 engineering technology faculty members (20 in Dayton and 20 in Ventura) participate in each of the two tracks. Faculty teams in Ohio and California collaborate as industrial design teams via the Internet to design parts and use rapid prototyping technologies to manufacture the parts. This experience provides an accurate simulation of the Collaborative Design and Rapid Tooling and Manufacturing processes routinely used in business and industry. Participating faculty use the processes and simulations in their classrooms to enhance the laboratory components. The project recruits faculty who are from underserved populations and who teach at institutions with large numbers of underserved populations. Faculty participants are expected to infuse curriculum improvements developed during the Summer Institutes, providing underserved students with cutting-edge learning opportunities. All lessons and laboratory experiences created through the project are posted to the project web site.