An Electronic Forum for Design and Manufacturing Education

这笔赠款提供资金，用于开发一个基于互联网的电子论坛和设计和制造教育研讨会。 电子论坛和讲习班将为教育工作者和行业专业人员创造的越来越多的研究数据、信息和材料提供组织和重点。 以网络为中心的方法将有助于确保这些材料更广泛地获得，论坛和讲习班系统的互动方面将促进对设计和制造教育感兴趣的教师、学生和组织之间扩大对话和互动的机会。 该论坛也将是一个地方，教师，学生和行业可以组织和协调各种各样的合作活动，开发和交流课程材料，并分享资源和信息，这将丰富工程教育经验。 许多技术再投资项目制造工程教育合作伙伴关系的电子成果将为组织电子研讨会提供初始内容和动力;这些资源将得到扩展，并包括来自参与和对制造教育感兴趣的人员的广泛资源。 电子社区的设计，开发和进行为教师和学生提供了一个独特的研究机会，其主要目标是确保有关电子论坛的开发和进行的知识广泛提供给希望建立类似通信基础设施的个人或团体。 虽然电子论坛和研讨会将被开发，以供工程界关注设计和制造教育问题的初步使用，但系统操作的软件、数据结构、工具和操作指南将以内容中立的方式设计。 通过改变适当的配置参数，其他学科和团体将能够部署一个电子论坛和研讨会框架的实例，以支持其独特的网络介导的对话和研讨会，并创建专门的数据库和丰富的特定主题的资源，以供在其感兴趣的社区内共享和交流。

This grant provides funding for the development of an internet-based electronic forum and workshop for design and manufacturing education. The electronic forum and workshop will provide organization and focus for the growing body of research data, information and materials created by educators and industry professionals. A network-centric approach will help ensure that those materials are more widely accessible, and interactive aspects of the forum and workshop system will foster opportunities for expanded dialogue and interaction among faculty, students and organizations interested in design and manufacturing education. The forum will also be a place where faculty, students and industry can organize and coordinate a wide variety of collaborative activities, develop and exchange course materials, and share resources and information that will enrich the engineering educational experience. The electronically publishable results of the many Technology Reinvestment Projects manufacturing engineering education partnerships will provide initial content and motivation for organizing electronic workshops; these resources will be expanded and encompass a broad spectrum of resources from those involved and interested in manufacturing education. The design, development and conduct of an electronic community provides a unique research opportunity for faculty and students, and a major objective is to ensure that knowledge about development and conduct of electronic forums is broadly available to individuals or groups wishing to establish similar kinds of communications infrastructures. Although electronic forum and workshop will be developed for initial use by the engineering community concerned with design and manufacturing education issues, the software, data structures, tools and operational guidelines for operation of the system will be designed in a content-neutral manner. By changing appropriate configuration parameters, other disciplines and groups will be able to deploy an instance of the electronic forum and workshop framework to support their unique network-mediated dialogue and seminars and create specialized databases and rich subject-specific resources for sharing and exchange within their community of interest.