Expert System Support for a Microcomputer Laboratory

小行星9451860 本计画的目标是：展示专家系统在工程教育上的适用性，以及改善电机工程实验教学的效率。 使用专家系统使学生能够进行更多的自己的故障排除。学生不必等待援助。他们能够查询专家系统，并在需要时接受指导，即使在非实验室时间。其结果是增加了学生/教师讨论更先进的概念和系统设计和开发方法的机会。 通常情况下，实验室讲师大部分时间都在与一两个实验室小组一起协助他们完成故障排除任务。专家系统 允许教授在实验期间为更多的学生服务，因为它处理了常规任务。专家系统 继续“学习”症状和解决方案，始终提供完整的“回忆”故障排除建议，即使是第一次教授该课程的新教师和实验室教学助理。 创新性地使用计算机和专家系统，通过提供基于微处理器的系统设计实验室中遇到的某些常规功能来协助电气和计算机工程学院。专家系统在工程教育中的应用将被仔细评估，以确认其作为“教学助手”的价值。

9451860 King The goals of this project are: To demonstrate the applicability of expert systems to engineering education; and to improve the efficiency of the electrical engineering laboratory instruction. Use of an expert system enables the students to conduct more of their own troubleshooting. Students do not have to wait for assistance. They are able to query the expert system and receive guidance as the need arises, even during non-laboratory hours. The result is an increased opportunity for student/faculty discussions of more advanced concepts and methods of system design and development. Usually, the laboratory instructor spends most of the laboratory period with just one or two of the lab groups assisting them with troubleshooting tasks. The expert system allows the professor to service more of the students during the lab period because it copes with the routine tasks. The expert system continues to "learn" symptoms and solutions, always providing complete "recall" of troubleshooting suggestions, even for new faculty and laboratory teaching assistants who teach the course for the first time. Innovative use is made of computers and an expert system to assist electrical and computer engineering faculty by providing certain of the routine functions encountered in the microprocessor-based systems design laboratory. This application of expert systems to engineering education will be carefully evaluated to confirm its value as a "teaching assistant".