Rapid Prototyping in Drafting and Design Technology

起草和设计部正在将快速成型作为修订课程的一项关键内容。这个项目的目标是：(1)通过提供所需的快速成型实验室设备，使起草和设计技术课程现代化；(2)建立一个与副学士学位工程技术课程的课程发展建议相一致的动手学习的快速成型实验室；(3)采用现有的远程学习技术，使其他两年制副学士学位课程能够进入具有成本效益的快速成型实验室；(4)向一个地区联盟提供快速成型实验室的机会；以及(5)为大学的项目提供快速原型实验室，以实施、整合和试点实施国家制造业教育模式。目前设计表达的基础是实体几何模型。通过让学生有机会采取下一个合乎逻辑的步骤(即，从坚实的几何模型，无缝和快速地，到要制造的部件的实际原型)，新的课程成果将得到加强。学生在设计-生产界面获得额外的知识和技能，这是一种在高度技术化的先进制造操作中变得司空见惯的并行工程类型。

The Drafting and Design Department is incorporating rapid prototyping as a key element in the revision of the curriculum. Objectives of this project are: (1) to modernize the drafting and design technology curricula by providing the required rapid prototyping laboratory equipment; (2) to establish a rapid prototyping laboratory for hands-on learning concordant with curriculum development recommendations for associate degree engineering technology courses; (3) to implement available distance learning technologies for cost-effective rapid prototyping laboratory access by other 2-year associate degree programs; (4) to offer rapid prototyping laboratory access to a regional consortium; and (5) to provide rapid prototyping laboratory access for the university's project to implement, integrate, and pilot implement a national model for manufacturing education. The current basis for design representation is the solid geometric model. New program outcomes would be enhanced by providing students with the opportunity to take the next logical step (i.e., from a solid geometric model, seamlessly and quickly, to an actual prototype of the part to be manufactured). Students acquire additional knowledge and skills at the design - production interface, the type of concurrent engineering that is becoming commonplace in heavily technological advanced manufacturing operations.